Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Extend your stay and travel , by air , to Cairo , for a 3 night stay , before returning to Luxor for a final 4 nights to unwind . |
2 | Not only was it a loss to the series of Malcolm Hulke for a good many years , it was also a nail in the coffin of the show 's bid to be genuinely educative . |
3 | Robin Bailey plays Sir William as a crusty old Scots judge , with an unexpected Achilles heel . |
4 | On Aug. 26 the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha approved the extension of president 's rule in Jammu and Kashmir for a further six months from its expiry on Sept. 2 . |
5 | I took a siesta in the shade , and when evening rolled around was feeling fit enough to head back into Bandera for a few more beers at the Silver Dollar . |
6 | Issued in June 1991 , Pearl 's ITT for a new financial systems and management information system was sent to four potential suppliers : Quality Software Products ( QSP ) ; Computer Associates ; Dun & Bradstreet Software ( formed from MSA and McCormack & Dodge ) and Walker . |
7 | Green argued that if the principle were extended to all eight counties the RAC would be controlled by the LEAs with a mere three members representing the WEA and only three representing the Cambridge Board with Hickson and Pateman as the committee 's servicing officers . |
8 | Homo sapiens sapiens seems to have replaced the Neanderthals in a few thousand years about 30000 years ago . |
9 | Though serial numbers were issued to the Joyces , the identity books were not , since the family protested that it intended to leave the country for the United States in a few more days . |
10 | The Frenchman , in a Toyota , led McRae 's Subaru by a mere six seconds after five stages . |
11 | ‘ Of course he was away in England for a good many years , ’ Bull O'Malley offered by way of explanation . |
12 | In or after 1147 Andrew returned to England for a few troubled years as the first abbot of Wigmore , a daughter house of St Victor in Herefordshire . |
13 | However , Barbarossa was still suspicious of the leader of the Guelphs , and when he resolved to go on crusade he ordered that Henry must either follow him to the Holy Land or return to exile in England for a further three years . |
14 | She had been flying for twelve years , had studied with her father who flew Concorde as a senior British Airways captain , and had soloed on her seventeenth birthday . |
15 | Ron Church and John Harbour , both representatives for John Murray , retired from the company in December after a joint 88 years with the firm . |
16 | The relaxation of one-party rule and the new climate of liberalization increased , resulting in the formation in December of an independent human rights monitoring group and the gradual release of political prisoners . |
17 | It had been a wet May with a few scarce hours of sunshine at the beginning of the month and little since , but today the grey skies that had hung over the land like a shroud had broken , and high white clumps of cloud were bowling swiftly across the blue sky betokening a day of good weather . |
18 | Mr Morton was headhunted by Eurotunnel from a minor financial services group , Guinness Peat , in Febuary 1987 specifically to deal with another such crisis . |
19 | It would then be replaced by The Prince of Wales 's Own Regiment of Yorkshire for a further six months . |
20 | Watmoughs have just secured the contract to print The Sunday Times magazine in Scarborough for a further five years . |
21 | Having won in Bratislava on Monday with an impressive 17.18 metres , the Commonwealth silver medallist is laying strong foundations for a serious medal bid in Spain . |
22 | When investigations by the Inquisition threatened in 1557 , he fled to Geneva with a dozen fellow monks , proceeding thence to England immediately after Queen Elizabeth I 's accession . |
23 | He jerked his poncho up , felt about in the pocket of his filthy jeans and produced a screwed-up bit of paper which he handed to Ward with a few muttered words . |
24 | I inquired after my brother , Max , who had finally agreed a few months ago to work for Dad 's firm , and I established that he was in Paris for a few more days . |
25 | Finally sport : Oxford United have made a new signing this afternoon ; Jim Magilton has joined from Liverpool for a hundred thousand pounds . |
26 | Hardy took the verdict of referee Larry O'Connell by a comfortable 99 points to 96 , less than a month after successfully defending his Commonwealth crown against Canada 's Barrington Francis . |
27 | The Prince of Wales 's decision to renew live firing licences on Dartmoor for a further 21 years continues to draw criticism . |
28 | Three best-selling writers are backing an appeal by Oxfam for a million second-hand books . |
29 | If he completes the term , it will take Clough to a staggering 19 years in charge at the City Ground and 29 years in total as a manager . |
30 | On Feb. 5 the UN Security Council extended economic sanctions against Iraq for a further 60 days on account of Iraq 's non-compliance with previous UN resolutions . |