Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data from general practitioners suggest that the dilemma or contradiction mentioned earlier is very much a feature of GPs ' theorising ( McIntosh and Horobin 1977 ) . |
| 2 | She headed off upstream , and discovered a fair-sized pool after only a couple of minutes ' walk . |
| 3 | Mm , so it 's only a couple of months ' work really |
| 4 | This is already starting to ‘ gloss up ’ with use , giving both these guitars a friendly , used feel after only a couple of days ' playing . |
| 5 | Strand-on-the-Green , which was originally only a collection of fishermen 's cottages at a riverside hamlet which , in the fourteenth century was called ‘ Stronde ’ then ‘ Ye Strande ’ by the end of the sixteenth century ; then later it became ‘ Strand Green ’ and then ‘ Strand in the Green ’ by the beginning of the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | Thus there have been changes over time in patterns of support between generations , but these are not necessarily a result of individuals ' changing beliefs and values about family responsibilities . |
| 7 | A recent step forward was the announcement in October 1990 of the formation of a broad-based teachers ' organization — the South African Democratic Teachers ' Union — which brings together a number of teachers ' unions previously separated on racial , geographical and political lines . |
| 8 | Very much an advocate for women 's equal rights , especially in education and suffrage , Harriet Taylor began writing her most important works after meeting Mill . |
| 9 | The rise of mass education saw a decline in social mobility and merely an inflation in employers ' demands for qualifications . |
| 10 | This motivated dealers more than a previously introduced incentive to sell PEPS which had been merely an increase in dealers ' OTC takeback allowance . |
| 11 | It is however an important part of the women 's movement , which might lack the explicit analysis of male oppression and resistance , but is none the less an affirmation of women 's allegiance to each other . |
| 12 | I think in some ways it 's better , because girls are meant to get on better in the sciences in girls ' schools ; they 're meant to be pushed backwards a bit in boys ' schools . |
| 13 | This is not just a matter of children 's physical dependence ; it concerns the emotional constitution of human beings generally . |
| 14 | He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law . |
| 15 | There was also a scale for children 's allowances . |
| 16 | You can also make up a book of spells and write spells on a piece of paper , or even a menu for witches ' stew . |
| 17 | Poppy had managed to gather quite a collection of workmen 's boots , so I went to the pet shop and bought her some toys , which she loved playing with . |
| 18 | And then of course I , I did quite a lot of children 's nursing then , er but also general nursing as well , a bit o a bi some midwifery and er mainly ge general nursing . |
| 19 | By then an issue on women 's rights was already in the planning stage . |
| 20 | It is significant that Charlotte Lennox 's The Female Quixote , one of the most interesting novels of its time , is essentially a satire on women 's education . |