Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] a [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirdly , there is a group of institutions where only a minority of students are on advanced courses . |
| 2 | Infection of the fallopian tubes must remain the most important cause of infertility today , although only a minority of cases will be due to gonorrhoea . |
| 3 | Although only a minority of parties were favourable to the Left , it was that minority which was most active at Party conferences and in political propaganda in the country . |
| 4 | So it would actually be very straightforward to do this , although not a couple of problems in this model that we ought to just say something about alright , the specification of four does present a couple of problems right . |
| 5 | America , where there appear to be more grossly obese people than in Britain ( by which I mean those around double their desirable body weight , rather than just a couple of stones overweight ) , is an excellent place to observe this eating-speed phenomenon . |
| 6 | Everything here was different and therefore better : the stiff-backed brass taps , the cut of the banister , the genuine oil paintings ( we had a genuine oil painting too , but not as genuine as that ) , the library which somehow was more than just a roomful of books , the furniture old enough to have woodworm in it , and the casual acceptance of inherited things . |
| 7 | It gives due weight to action research as a process rather than just a set of things to do . |
| 8 | A label can be more than just a sequence of characters . |
| 9 | It also manages to tie the Alps together as one whole , treating them as a range of mountains rather than just a list of routes . |
| 10 | And , finally , those extra , necessary words — grouped and coloured — somehow more than just a list of words ! |
| 11 | You may find it more pleasing and effective to range together a selection of complementary shapes , rather than just a hotchpotch of squares , circles , ovals and rectangles . |
| 12 | Now rail travellers arriving in Darlington will notice more than just a handful of changes compared to six years ago . |
| 13 | A system which has the intelligence to acknowledge that people are more than just a bag of bones dressed up in a birthday suit and that ill-health is not only caused by biological factors , but social , political , economic and environmental ones as well . |
| 14 | Guy 's Hospital in London has been rumoured to be heading down the opting out path , although recently a group of consultants at the hospital expressed their opposition to the idea . |
| 15 | Only a minority of the population would have the plasmids needed to combat such a stress but at least the species , if not a majority of individuals , would survive . |
| 16 | This is partly because only a proportion of hinds conceive in a given year and individual stags rarely hold harems throughout the whole breeding season , and partly because few stags breed successfully for more than four years . |
| 17 | This is because chemists ' experiments last for years not thousands of millions of years , and because only a handful of chemists , not thousands of millions of chemists , are engaged in doing these experiments . |
| 18 | Theorists are very stimulated by sort of quite interesting and new ideas of concept because ultimately a lot of theorists like sort of to be intellectually challenged they like things that they need to really sort of stretch their minds . |
| 19 | She certainly is , after only a couple of circuits her confidence is growing . |
| 20 | Two watch-worthy Frenchmen , Jean-Noel Pariente , 30 , and Lionel Fainfray , 29 , whose Arthur brand of men 's underpants sells 800,000 pairs in France after only a couple of years in existence , are preparing a charge into the UK market . |
| 21 | This is already starting to ‘ gloss up ’ with use , giving both these guitars a friendly , used feel after only a couple of days ' playing . |
| 22 | After only a couple of days , comprising mainly insults and bickering , she had n't felt as if they were strangers . |
| 23 | ‘ But then the team suffered a run of injuries and after only a handful of matches I was back on the field . ’ |
| 24 | Having a factory bike can put a lot of pressure on you but when after just a couple of races you discover you can compete at the highest level , everything gets easier . |
| 25 | Many police officers today , even in the higher ranks , can not remember carrying out their police duties without the assistance of the computer , and it is now as much a part of police back-up as the police car and police radio . |
| 26 | However , it is obviously as much a waste of funds to give money to privatisation of the coal industry as it was to give money for the poll tax . |
| 27 | The way that these arrangements for the responsibility and control of book provision work out are often as much a matter of personalities and university politics as anything else . |
| 28 | Though scarcely a couple of years the lieutenant 's senior , he somehow felt much older . |
| 29 | It is , however , a mistake to pigeon-hole Corinth as just a city of traders , craftsmen and luxury . |
| 30 | The Market on Saturday evenings provided much entertainment as always a number of cheapjacks were to be found selling all sorts of items . |