Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if we did something like jumble sale clearance , and get people 's old clothes , you could sell that for about a hundred pounds a ton . |
| 2 | And all of this for just a few pounds . |
| 3 | She put her hands against her face , thinking , ‘ I shall stand this for only a few seconds more , then I shall leave . ’ |
| 4 | You 're being silly , she told herself ; a man as attractive as Luke Denner would be bound to have many women in his life , any number of girlfriends ; had n't she schooled herself into thinking this at least a hundred times — ever since that very first meeting , ever since he had dragged her unceremoniously into that small , chaste bedroom , ever since he had made love to her ? |
| 5 | Do you remember much about how the old managers felt about that ? |
| 6 | Now in his 60s , the grandaddy of author/illustrators has classics such as Where the Wild Things Are to his name . |
| 7 | Even worse , some States attempt to bring political prejudice into the conference room and elicit support from other delegates with similar persuasions or from similar geographical groups such as when the African States or Central American States decide to oppose a proposal , pleading encroachment upon their sovereignty . |
| 8 | Sometimes the same facts are both GBH and wounding such as when the accused chops off the victim 's arm . |
| 9 | He is , indeed , entitled to be described as a great player , Britain 's nonpareil of the 1980s , who was eventually recognised as such by even the hardened doubters in Australia after his summer with Balmain in 1988 . |
| 10 | Management introduced unsupervised autonomous groups , or ‘ high-performance teams ’ , each with around a dozen members , with full ‘ front to back responsibility ’ for product assembly and test , fault finding and problem solving , as well as some equipment maintenance . |
| 11 | The bride 's mother takes her seat last of all with only a few minutes to spare . |
| 12 | if you did that in quite a few places |
| 13 | As ever , we must balance the temptation to introduce such rights willy-nilly against the unreasonable cost burden that might rest increasingly on employers , especially those with only a few employees . |
| 14 | And when in 1937 a questionnaire was distributed to authors about their attitude towards the Spanish Civil War , he sent the reply ( which he said that he never expected to be published ) that , " While I am naturally sympathetic I still feel convinced that it is best that at least a few men of letters remain silent " . |
| 15 | Given that by then the teenage assumptions of invulnerability have tended to evaporate , what better time to put away childish things and give up that nasty teenage habit ? |
| 16 | Nineteenth-century legs were no longer to be clad in fancy hose , and by 1810 with most of even the skilled stockingers crowded into the plain branch , prices and wages began to tumble . |