Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [det] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite apart from the fact that the hardware was working within one hour of delivery we found that the basic functions of each of the packages had been picked up in less than a day . |
| 2 | Since the 1900s , despite the increasing numbers of the elderly , the proportion has again fallen back by more than a third . |
| 3 | Most of this made its way to the government , so that by February 1797 it had been run down to less than a sixth of this level . |
| 4 | Having made it , that family was split up for more than a year , but was reunited after the Blitz and eventually settled in Torquay . |
| 5 | It takes at least two terms even to become familiar with a new job but , after that , few management changes can be put off for more than a year . |
| 6 | He had a fleeting image of a bar , of the people inside , of someone singing Chris Rea 's : ‘ Joys of Christmas , Northern Style ’ , and then it had all flashed by in less than a second . |