Example sentences of "[det] [conj] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adding the KUBE asks more of the amplifier in contradicting the inherent roll-off of the bass system but the efficiency of the 103/4 is such that a 50 watts per channel amplifier ( into 4 ohms ) remains adequate in a normal sized room . |
| 2 | I had fewer than a hundred rounds for the gun which I kept solely as a deterrent for those remote places where cruising yachtsmen are seen as plump victims , ripe for pillaging , and the Webley offered me good protection for , though the gun was over seventy years old , it was massively built and frighteningly powerful . |
| 3 | Only a few professors and their favourite students seem to have read enough to be able to consider a matter of style with any data at their disposal — these and a few poets of the better sort … |
| 4 | Schools in all but a few pockets of the county are expected to find enough people willing to stand for election in September when 1,600 governors are due to be appointed . |
| 5 | For all but a few weeks in the year there is the demand of regular attendances and rehearsals , often at unsocial hours , as well as regular private practice . |
| 6 | All but a few households in Britain relied for heating on solid fuel fires in the principal room , and few considered it necessary to heat bedrooms or bathrooms continuously , even in winter . |
| 7 | There may be as many as a million ants in one nest . |
| 8 | I mean I , I , I , I 've had as many as a thousand marbles in a bag . |
| 9 | Benn , the WBC title-holder , countered : little more than a few inches from his hated foe 's nose , returned the observation in kind . |
| 10 | Most of the 400,000 people who turned out to watch saw little more than a few sparks over the Scheldt . |
| 11 | In the case of Santiaguito , there is little evidence that the dome is actually growing at all — one can sit and watch it for hours without seeing anything more than a few wisps of steam from the top — and it 's quite safe to scramble all over it . |
| 12 | The apparatus required for imprinting , and then for measuring the efficacy of the imprinting response , was large and elaborate ; it was impossible to train more than a few birds at a time . |
| 13 | Saving on housing is more than often , very unwise , when depreciated over a period of 10 years , the extra cost may be no more than a few eggs per bird extra . |
| 14 | And excellent sight is most important if your world is in the air or your head is more than a few feet above the ground . |
| 15 | Now , as always at the beginning of the rainy season , dense black clouds began to roll in over the Residency from the direction of the river , advancing slowly , not more than a few feet above the ground and masking completely whatever lay in their path . |
| 16 | The male of the species is an unadulterated chauvinist who will not allow the females of his harem to move more than a few feet from him . |
| 17 | The land was not flat now but undulating , rising no more than a few feet in various shades of brown and gold as far as the eye could see . |
| 18 | Breathing in this way will be more efficient if the body is of the size and shape that gives maximum skin area and minimum body volume and this indeed , is just what is found among these lungless salamanders ; their bodies are thin and elongated and none of them grows to more than a few centimetres in length . |
| 19 | Lousy beer , but a good jacket with more than a few memories of a young lady from Boulder , Colorado , attached to it . |
| 20 | The Glass-Steagall Act and the McFadden Act prevented banks from operating in more than a few states at a time , and also restricted their scope for involvement in the securities markets and other financial services — areas where their international competitors already had wide powers . |
| 21 | Harry , meanwhile was raised on a diet of liquidized fish — now he 's old enough to take solids , and loves nothing more than a few pounds of sprats — all in one go . |
| 22 | Although Frankie had been dozing , he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 23 | TOWARDS the end of her life my mother was in hospital , a victim of Alzheimer 's Disease , a severe diabetic , unable to walk and increasingly unable to remain conscious for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 24 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 25 | A breathless , pervasive sense of heat possessed her body at every return of the memory and she was unable to remain settled and at ease in her seat for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 26 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 27 | Straining the last possible revolutions from her roaring Paxman engines , the old lady of the fleet , Vigilant was first to reach Guiding Lights , but despite darkness and mist had to wait no more than a few minutes for the other cutters to join her — a feat of seamanship that later lead to great praise from their Investigation colleagues ashore . |
| 28 | You 've got as long as it , it takes but it wo n't take , I should think , more than a few minutes for each group er to do their presentation . |
| 29 | Hearing people are members of the dominant culture , who usually wish to preserve their hearing status and whose length of stay among deaf people is often no more than a few hours at a time . |
| 30 | ‘ The barrow now belongs to you , so never let it or the pitch out of your sight for more than a few hours at a time . ’ |