Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I can understand her not having , not wanting kids for a few years but , ca n't you ? |
| 2 | Those who could live on savings for a few weeks or months were ‘ that rare class ’ . |
| 3 | New sayings are on everyone 's lips for a few years and then for no reason they disappear , becoming as dead and as dated as the dodo . |
| 4 | Nor could the academic organization of the schools remain as rudimentary as it had been : communication and management would not just ‘ happen ’ in schools of a thousand pupils or more , and the stream of curriculum innovation needed to be carefully channelled — especially in a system where each school enjoyed considerable freedom in choosing patterns of study and teaching methods . |
| 5 | Does n't he say something about there 's gon na be ten thousand small schools in a few years and erm |
| 6 | Thus microclimate effects can have major short-term implications for local populations ( such as those brought about by the photochemical smogs of Los Angeles ) , are often applicable only over areas of a few hectares or less and may operate on a diurnal cycle . |
| 7 | While there has been contraction more recently , New Zealand Railways , almost uniquely , use the magnificence of some of their stations as a public relations and marketing feature . |
| 8 | Children with considerable learning problems were removed from mainstream classes for a few months and taught by a specially appointed additional teacher . |
| 9 | The plan showed the outlines of a dozen houses and a service road superimposed on a large-scale map . |
| 10 | The competition attracted pilots from a dozen nations and , by all accounts , had a touch of ‘ Those Magnificent Men … ’ about the proceedings . |
| 11 | The writer only has memories of a few freights and the diesel hauled York-Bournemouth in 1964 . |
| 12 | Firms can choose to concentrate their resources in a few countries and emphasise exports to other markets , or they can disperse their resources and emphasise FDI . |
| 13 | He absorbed the little gray figures in a few seconds and his face bulged . |
| 14 | The bank would give him facilities to purchase the business to the extent of seventy five thousand pounds if he agreed to sell his property at and from the proceeds of sale to repay the bridging facility in its entirety and they would provide a sixteen thousand pounds business loan and overdraught facilities to be reduced by five thousand pounds within a few days and if the six thousand pounds rent deposit was not required then the business loan would be reduced to ten thousand pounds . |
| 15 | They must be able to cope with aridity , high daily and seasonal temperature ranges , seasonal swings in photoperiod from long days to long nights , and a growing season ranging in length from three to four months on the polar fringes to a few days or even hours in higher latitudes . |
| 16 | Lot number twenty eight Lot twenty eight er the white jade bottle there 's the bottle showing a hundred pounds for it , at one hundred pounds at a hundred pounds and ten , twenty one thirty one thirty offered and selling for one hundred and thirty , one forty one forty against you now one forty to my left and selling for one hundred and forty pounds second row , thank you , one forty and the next number is number two one eight , thank you . |
| 17 | Lot number seventy four Lot seventy four , the censer there 's the Ming censer showing Lot number seventy four , a hundred for this , at one hundred pounds at a hundred pounds and ten , one twenty , one thirty , at one hundred and thirty I 'm offered and selling for one thirty , all done ? |
| 18 | Thank you , Lot number seventy six Lot number seventy six Peking er dishes there 's the Peking dishes , there 's seven of them , we 've got one of them showing seven in the for a hundred pounds one hundred pounds at a hundred pounds and ten , at one hundred and ten pounds , any more at one hundred and ten , twenty , thirty one forty in front , one fifty one sixty , seventy yes ? one eighty , thank you one eighty in front , at a hundred and eighty pounds and selling for one hundred and eighty . |
| 19 | ‘ We pick them up , ’ the Skull was saying , ‘ they 're guys with no links , like on the pier or down in the meat streets , they 're always suckers for a few lines and a limousine . |
| 20 | More characteristic still are the thousands of tiny meltwater streams that trickle from ice-sheets and snow-banks for a few days or weeks each summer , often following the same channels year after year , and sometimes building up mats of vegetation along their course . |
| 21 | Their work has withstood the storms of a hundred years and more . |
| 22 | Mr Heath 's U-turn in 1972 , shifting from free-market policies to a statutory prices and incomes policy and state intervention in industry , is a negative example for her . |
| 23 | A soaking bumblebee crawled over a thistle-bloom , vibrated its wings for a few seconds and then flew away down the field . |
| 24 | But they admit that these babies had not achieved complete and independent toileting as they could only hold on to their eliminations for a few minutes and needed help to undress and get on the potty . |
| 25 | Ditton worked in the bakery over vacations for a few years and reckoned that each man had an illegal income of about 10 per cent of his bread sales , very little of which appeared as a loss in the firm 's financial records . |
| 26 | another driver says he came off in a field saw stars for a few seconds but he 's alright … |
| 27 | Similarly , in the case of a local authority , formal authority to make decisions will rest with the full council ; but in reality it may well be that power is in the hands of a few councillors and chief officers such that the locus of decision making may be far removed from the full council meeting . |
| 28 | I was up in Oregon at the time and got back to find that the tremor had shoved the sewage pipes up a few inches and thrown the water out of the lavatories , a well-known portent of Satan 's arrival , if you believe the infernal guidebooks . |
| 29 | There are possible side effects such as nausea and headaches for a few days and extremely rarely there are other serious complications . |
| 30 | The Movietone cameraman zoomed in to get a close-up of the notice being fixed in place , a glimpse for the screens of a thousand Odeons and Regals from Aberdeen to Penzance . |