Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As their striding Emperor quivered with the unleashing of its weaponry , Biff sat impotently for only a few moments . |
| 2 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 3 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 4 | He was inside for only a few minutes and emerged very badly shaken . |
| 5 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |
| 6 | It 's only worth about a hundred pounds . |
| 7 | Behind the retina is a cascade of other cells , neurones , which are all physiologically of just a few types . |
| 8 | By 1790 the European navies numbered in all about 470 ships of the line ( the large vessels which formed the line of battle in important naval conflicts ) together with about a thousand frigates and a thousand smaller ships . |
| 9 | Joe 's dad had passed from being a weekend to an entirely absent father and it was n't long before even the sporadic invitations for his son to holiday in the States petered out altogether . |
| 10 | Put lots on and reapply at least every two hours , as sweat , water , wind and towel friction will wear it away . |
| 11 | A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building . |
| 12 | Many in the trade expect prices to go up further today , and possibly for quite a few auctions to come . |
| 13 | Aside from just the physical conditions though , it 's also that they face no end of er very bad practices , often by quite poor landlords , and on some occasions very poor accommodation agencies . |
| 14 | ‘ It may be impossible for him to get home in just a few months . ’ |
| 15 | Previously they would be drawn directly from over a thousand bobbins straight to the loom in a visible display of colour . |
| 16 | There were no juke-boxes or Coke machines , but there were many shelves of books around the room and a selection of magazines and newspapers ; there were also at least a dozen chess-boards . |
| 17 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
| 18 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 19 | Very often heavy cloud over the target area would completely obscure it and the bombs were sometimes dropped more by luck than good judgement and often in quite the wrong places , with the resulting waste of time and armament and unnecessary loss of life . |
| 20 | On higher ground not far from there the wooden slopes that formed part of another stretch of pleasure grounds ( the Cheltenham spa grounds ) also attracted large crowds . |
| 21 | Instead of being admitted for the night , she 'll be here for just a few hours . |
| 22 | Holland , the only country lying mainly below sea level , is understandably obsessed by the sea , but this went too far even for even the greatest patriots . |
| 23 | Maintaining that calm , uncaring façade even for just a few minutes had taken a lot out of her , and she felt the faint beginnings of a headache behind her eyes . |
| 24 | She could tell he was relieved to be let off the hook if even for only a few minutes , despite his words as they 'd come downstairs . |
| 25 | Like Trevor , when the other person 's tension breaks and the anger bursts , do you feel any satisfaction or relief within yourself , even for only a few moments ? |
| 26 | And , of course , cruise missiles deployed in Britain will be here under exactly the same arrangements that have applied to American forces already based in the UK . |
| 27 | The last meeting was held on Oki premises a few weeks ago with only a few friends of the family in attendance . |
| 28 | But even with only the barest essentials , the list is as long as my arm . |
| 29 | Drovers had pastured their herds here for many years but their customary right had vanished when Flemyng bought the ground and it was a daily vexation of Cameron 's to move the animals out from among his materials and even from inside the unfinished walls . |
| 30 | Even among perhaps a hundred girls in their year , they must have known each other quite well . |