Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half an hour later , Harry left Breakspear College with scarcely a glance at what was now only a faint stain on the opposite wall . |
| 2 | I continued my visits to Miss Havisham for almost a year . |
| 3 | She had been living in Crow Court off Vetch Street for nearly a week , and the narrow lives of the people among whom she found herself appalled her . |
| 4 | Students should be encouraged to find out about the Braille Alphabet from eg an encyclopaedia . |
| 5 | Mr Hartley , in his final year studying community arts at Newcastle , had been seeing Miss Harrison for about a year . |
| 6 | IBM Corp with only a 7% share of the workstation market , translating to some $670m looked decidedly odd in International Data Corp 's worldwide market share figures for workstations in 1992 , which we reported in CI No 2,152 . |
| 7 | A pleasure steamer has made the first day trip down the Severn to the Devon coast for almost a century . |
| 8 | Fashion : GREEN — AND FIT TO BE SEEN Jane Mulvagh on how a family crisis prompted Europe 's largest clothing manufacturer to plan an environment-friendly label |
| 9 | Some of the paintings almost reminded her of the Hudson Valley , but she had n't seen the Hudson River in nearly a year . |
| 10 | She had been feeling like this about Dr Russell for nearly a year . |
| 11 | Anyway , forty six and then we had no house , at all , because my mother had died and my father , we said to my father you leave if you want to we should be alright we 'll find somewhere to go and we did n't and we had to have a Nissan hut for about a year , supplied by the Council |
| 12 | Using computer-controlled equipment , the project will study the use of CSPs in a cross-section of the Cambridge population from both an acoustic and an articulatory point of view . |
| 13 | A dispute which had soured Israeli-US relations for over a year ended on Feb. 20 when Baker telephoned Levi to inform him that he had signed a guarantee for a US$400,000,000 loan for the housing of immigrants , mainly Soviet Jews . |
| 14 | Our filming will involve exterior shots only and I would anticipate that we will be at Jodrell Bank for about an hour . |
| 15 | The suspension of Mrs Kemp for over a year with no reasons being given by the local authority , caused grave misgivings in Orkney . |
| 16 | Chester-le-Street 's Lindsay Hardy , 15 , also won the girls race for the second year in succession , finishing 12th overall , and was surprised to beat Middlesbrough and Cleveland 's Kerry Matthew by over a minute and a half . |
| 17 | Sheridan might have made a difference given the chance — but then we 'll never know quite what sent the skilful midfielder packing to Sheffield Wednesday after hardly a sniff of the City Ground . |
| 18 | 4 weeks ago the first trident nuclear submarine rolled out from the Barrow shipyard with hardly a headline and still less protest . |
| 19 | ‘ He was Rainer Schickert for only a year and a few months — and mostly in hiding . |
| 20 | Less than a year later he was embarked on a career which would take him from the industrial grime of Taibach into films and on to the West End with hardly a pause for breath . |
| 21 | Products containing NutraSweet 's Simplesse have been available in the US market for over a year , but were only launched in the UK earlier this year . |
| 22 | Moszkowicz added : ‘ I served on the Darlington board for about a year because I misread Football League rules . |
| 23 | A specialist in seventeenth-century Dutch art , he taught at Columbia University for nearly a decade . |
| 24 | — Mr Coghill finished his cross examination on Thursday night with just an hour to spare before he was due at a public meeting in Middlesbrough . |
| 25 | The impact of the oil crisis and its associated inflation led to the first actual decline in income for OECD countries for over a quarter of a century . |
| 26 | There was comparative calm in the Wormwood household for about a week after the Superglue episode . |
| 27 | You sail turnwise from the Brown Islands for about a week and there it is . |
| 28 | Their trip , which took 38 hours instead of the normal 22 , coincided with 60ft waves and the worst North Sea gales for almost a century . |
| 29 | That had been a long , long time ago and we were still reeling through the London streets with never a sign of a park anywhere . |
| 30 | Portugal became the poorest EC member with almost a quarter of its people living off the land . |