Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if she said so herself , she was barely recognisable as the young woman who 'd been so distraught just a short while ago . |
| 2 | Danny Baker 's new breakfast show Morning Edition ( R5 ) , provoked comments that we were downright insulting : ‘ He is no more that just a loutish version of Jonathan Ross . ’ |
| 3 | At 1 p.m. on the twenty-sixth , explosions loud enough to be heard well over 150 kilometres away were taking place at intervals of about ten minutes , and at about 2 p.m. an English ship , 120 kilometres from the scene , sighted a black cloud , rising to an altitude estimated to be about twenty-five kilometres above the volcano . |
| 4 | About 160 B.C. an original thinker had emerged among them , Aristobulus , who applied allegorical interpretation to the Bible and paved the way for Philo . |
| 5 | The records of the Marine Society , a charity which prepared poor London boys for a career at sea , show a slight increase in stature up to about 1790 , a decline until about 1800 then a sharp increase up to 1830 , correlated with London labourers ' wages . |
| 6 | There were four of us in our party — Henniker and I , a young man introduced to me as Tom Spalding , and a girl of about twenty-two also an articled clerk — called Diana Robinson . |
| 7 | Of this vast quantity of building which was achieved between 146 B.C. and A.D. 476 only a small fraction exists today and often this is in the best condition in the provinces of the Empire , despite the fact that the examples were generally less magnificent . |
| 8 | might as well individual just a little bit . |
| 9 | Once the swinging has started , there is very little even a skilled driver can do . |
| 10 | Since they look very similar even a regular buyer could pick up the larger size without realising it — but of course the scanner at the check out would recognise the different bar code and charge the correct amount . |