Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the other Acorus species described so far , it grows only for a few months in the aquarium . |
| 2 | Already their affair was like marriage , with its own dispiriting routine , this shabby coming together for a few hours in the shabby office . |
| 3 | The membranes of course contain both the proteins and the enzyme that phosphorylates them , protein kinase C. If radioactive ATP is added to a tiny sample of the membranes , and incubated together for a few seconds in a miniature test-tube , the membrane proteins become both phosphorylated and radioactive . |
| 4 | Then he said I should see whether that was so after a hundred years in a glass coffin . |
| 5 | Only in a few countries in Northern Europe , ours among them , is an incorrupt public service normal . |
| 6 | The attractive plants flower for one week in late June/early July and are found only at a few sites in the New Forest . |
| 7 | What is the best way to protect my plumbing system while I am away for a few days in cold weather ? |
| 8 | If the war was n't actually forgotten , it was put aside for a few days in the district around Screehaugh . |
| 9 | ‘ Cut it out , Maria , ’ he ordered her curtly after a few seconds in which he seemed to hold his breath . |
| 10 | there 's total here of a million pounds in the er next financial year when er part Inland Revenue and part of |
| 11 | The Modernists had enjoyed a brief life as a London group after Pound settled there for a dozen years in 1908 ; Bloomsbury was already one , first in Cambridge and later in London and Sussex , sharing not just a range of assumptions and convictions but an intimate web of social and amorous relations . |
| 12 | This morning , most areas had a bright start — apart from a few showers in the east . |
| 13 | Shetland has no biting insects apart from a few midges in late summer , and I had n't realised just how much of a problem these Arctic mosquitoes could be . |
| 14 | Apart from a few pickpockets in Rangoon , street crime does not exist . |