Example sentences of "[det] [det] [conj] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not much more than a century later the king 's successor made his submission to the British after the punitive raid on Benin City . |
| 2 | Joan was recalling the day , not much more than a year ago , when she had found herself alone in a locked room with the innkeeper . |
| 3 | While at the Royal Academy of Music she had lived there but that , though not much more than a year ago , now seemed infinitely distant . |
| 4 | It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier ! |
| 5 | Led by this hint they opened the ground not far from the wall ; and not much more than a foot away from the surface they found a leaden envelope which they opened in two places , on the face and breast , and found it contained a human body wrapped in cerecloth : Upon removing what covered the face , they discovered the features , and particularly the eyes , in perfect preservation . |
| 6 | A dojo is much more than a place where a karateka ( one who practises karate ) trains . |
| 7 | That is an inadequate answer , given that more than a year ago there was a severe weather crisis throughout the country , especially in the east midlands district where 2 million people were without supplies , some of them for a considerable period . |
| 8 | Very little more than a bio-day later they had established that our exit molecules corresponded with our entry molecules , save for those of the cylinder that we 'd acquired and that was accounted for in their scanning . |
| 9 | These discoveries are relatively recent for a particular reason : medical scientists only started seriously investigating the benefits of high-fibre little more than a decade ago . |
| 10 | Little more than a year later Charles IV , uncle ( through his sister Isabella ) of Edward III , also died , leaving no direct heir as king of France . |
| 11 | Little more than a year ago you could n't give away shares in the small computer company sector — so friendless were they that Star Computer Group Plc found it necessary to get into bed with a purveyor of pizzas to improve its visibility and rating : after Tadpole Technology Plc and now Division Group Plc — which soared to 107 pence on its first day of trading from the 40 pence placing price before settling at 96 pence — the rest of the sector looks set for a re-rating as investors seek to discern hidden charms that others have overlooked . |
| 12 | Little more than a year earlier there had been that never-to-be-forgotten encounter at the inn . |
| 13 | This is no more than the flight time to Mexico city , with which Merida lacked road and rail communication until little more than a generation ago . |
| 14 | Little more than a generation later , in 1857 , it was almost 60,000 . |
| 15 | Little more than a century ago most people , even in industrialized countries , rarely travelled more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 16 | Little more than a century ago , when the river ran free , the Comanche would have taken our scalps for being here . |
| 17 | Little more than a century ago , most of the river bank where huge shipyards now stand was fertile agricultural land . |
| 18 | It 's little more than a century ago that women were still being led to market to be sold to the highest bidder — in England . |
| 19 | With that number about little more than a century ago , it might be thought an easy matter to run one to earth . |
| 20 | He had been little more than a boy then . |
| 21 | There is a narrow road from the coast along the north side of Loch Morar as far as the little settlement of Bracorina and , from here , an easy climb to the crest of the ridge behind reveals a superlative view of Loch Nevis and Loch Morar , which are now little more than a mile apart . |
| 22 | And ‘ of course ’ Maxim did , because it was the island — little more than a peninsula really — in the Baltic where the East German version of the Special Air Service did its training . |
| 23 | On the following day the Országgyülés adopted a new law on internal security , including strict controls on the use of telephone and mail surveillance , after hearing acting Interior Minister Zoltan Pál admit that covert monitoring of the opposition had continued until little more than a week before , and that documents relating to the scandal had been shredded in defiance of a government order to secure all files for investigation . |