Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will feel clumsy and inept at most of the manual skills for at least a year , ; confidence and speed will only begin to appear the second or third time round . |
| 2 | In other words , the bulk of its plutonium is likely to remain stashed in potentially vulnerable stockpiles for at least a decade . |
| 3 | Naturally the more challenging the holiday the higher the price , especially if the reward for six hours in the saddle — with perhaps some of it spent in the rain — is a hot bath and the creature comforts of at least a hotel . |
| 4 | One thing I do remember was an occasion when the occupants of Hut 4 provided the whole camp , unwittingly , with a topic of conversation which went the rounds for at least a week . |
| 5 | It is always a good idea to keep cakes for at least a day before cutting them to allow the contents to settle . |
| 6 | This week Japan 's four leading brokerages ( Nomura , Daiwa , Nikko and Yamaichi ) agreed to stop issuing and underwriting new shares , convertible bonds and warrant bonds by Japanese companies for at least a month . |
| 7 | To be on the safe side , they feel that they need to have equity ratios of at least a percentage point or two above the BIS minimum . |
| 8 | Japan 's four leading brokerages , Nomura , Daiwa , Nikko and Yamaichi , agreed to stop issuing new shares , convertible bonds and warrant bonds for Japanese companies both in Tokyo and in the Euromarkets for at least a month . |
| 9 | Mr Kohl talks about five years , some economists of at least a decade . |
| 10 | HP , a more consensus-run establishment , might be a bit more tepid this week in its enthusiasms but is believed to be sending observers with at least a statement of goodwill . |
| 11 | His face was unlined , belying his fifty years by at least a decade . |
| 12 | Any abdominal operation will leave you with an inability to lift or carry things for at least a month . |
| 13 | By improving family planning services , we will reduce unwanted pregnancies and help achieve our target of cutting the number of abortions by at least a quarter . |
| 14 | It was a community which was lagging behind the lowlands by at least a century . |
| 15 | Curran said : ‘ I 'm convinced that to finish top of the table we must win our remaining two home games with at least a victory and a draw needed in the away ties . |
| 16 | Fundamentally , what was at issue was whether the army , now ideally composed of men with at least a modicum of training and military skill , should be led by men who merited their responsibilities , awarded to them on behalf of the community by the king who paid them from public funds ( ‘ la peccune publique ’ ) . |
| 17 | I always do warm-ups for at least an hour , doing scales and arpeggios — boring stuff like that . |
| 18 | This means that the Pactus Legis Salicae antedates the Liber Constitutionum of the Burgundians by at least a decade . |
| 19 | This supports the hypothesis that H pylori colonisation is a dynamic process with an active phase of infection and subsequent elimination of the bacteria in at least a proportion of infected people . |
| 20 | In other words , to obtain an initial fair comparison we would have to multiply the industrial related deaths by at least a factor of two and compare that figure with the number of recorded homicide cases . |