Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the outside with er they say say a hundred thousand tops for er including getting a a kiosk made up to a a food bar . |
| 2 | But before leaving this matter of persistence I want to mention a few special cases of persistence on a finer scale . |
| 3 | I just want to spread a few good words and hopefully raise a few pounds for the three groups that I am involved with , ’ says Rosemary . |
| 4 | I propose to allow a further 10 minutes before the doors are locked . |
| 5 | The result is likely to be closer relationships between customers and suppliers , which could be good news : Japanese companies such as Honda Motor tend to choose a few preferred suppliers and stick with them , rather than playing the field , and this policy seems to have paid off handsomely . |
| 6 | In the case of processes , the division between those that make up the longue durée and those that belong to the sphere of conjonctures is bound to be rough ; there is no absolute division between a gradual increase in population lasting for a century and a cycle of growth and decline lasting a mere seventy-five years , a fact reflected in the organisation of La Méditerranée . |
| 7 | French coach builder Heuliez used this week 's Paris show to propose a new international sports car Formula — SP2 . |
| 8 | How could quasi-independent microscopic cells collaborate to secrete a million glassy splinters and construct such an intricate and beautiful lattice ? |
| 9 | Tim said loudly , to quell her , ‘ We run six'n a half thousand lines in Pricewell 's . |
| 10 | In fact , I usually like to leave a full two weeks between the regression and the continuation of treatment . |
| 11 | And it was a you know it was a great happiness and release to shed a million other activities and flying in all directions thinking the acting was n't enough and I was n't enough for acting . |
| 12 | That is over a million pounds right in that budget for committee administration and you ask me where we can save fifty thousand pounds , well start producing a few less reports . |
| 13 | Within these doctrinaire limits the Chansonettes mesurees a l'antique ( 1586 ) of Mauduit , the posthumously published Le Printemps ( 1603 ) of Le Jeune , and the Meslanges ( 1610 ) of Du Caurroy do contain a few delightful things . |
| 14 | ‘ Michel laughed again and said , ‘ Well , we do have a great many men of ninety . |
| 15 | now if I was to go there and back that 's eighty pence , I mean I could get , for , for that e extra eighty pence I could get a few things in there that are dearer but I mean I like going down the town anyway and just wander and go back but I do get a few more bits in there now than I did . |
| 16 | They 're not bad really , they , no but I mean you do get a few damp ones now and again do n't you ? |
| 17 | Erm but that 's if you just progr project forward where we are cos we used up in , in three months what we should have done for the whole year so you 've only got ta do that , so we 've done a hundred thousand pounds this first quarter and if you 've four more , three more quarters there 's another three hundred thousand pounds over budget . |
| 18 | Yeah , the tension is slipping a bit and I 've done a few foolish things , but that 's not because we 're near the end of the wait . |
| 19 | ‘ You 've collected a few broken bones and they 're newly set . |
| 20 | We 've seen a few encouraging signs in the past month or two — Bellamy addressing the Confederation of British Industry , for instance , and Michael Heseltine , Secretary of State for the Environment , daring to finance an energy -efficiency campaign . |
| 21 | I 've written a great many books for children and some for adults about children ( several from both categories have caused a wave of national commotion ) , broadcasted , televised , been translated into every language including some I had n't realised existed — and what about a bizarre unidentifiable Japanese edition that is put out as one of my books , that for all I know is a codebook for terrorists or drug-runners ! |
| 22 | Five months into the project , we are now at a manageable level and tonight we arrange to open a further six fields over the next week . |
| 23 | Oh yeah we 've got a good few mushrooms there . |
| 24 | Then you 've got a possible ten marks . |
| 25 | " Ah 've got a nice few cases for ye to see today . |
| 26 | They 've got a few respectable names , of course . |
| 27 | I 've got a few little beauties I 'm going to flog to the idiots this morning . |
| 28 | And I mean I , I find some clients are really lucky , you know they 've got a few fiddly bits of issues and they keep getting fifty pounds here and fifty pounds there , |
| 29 | It 's Tuesday , so no , no doubt you 've got a few local games on the cards ? |
| 30 | PLUCKY Chesterfield sent a tremor through crisis club Liverpool last night by warning them : ‘ We 've got a few more tricks up our sleeve . ’ |