Example sentences of "ever [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And a solid defence has kept Derry 's challenge alive in the tightest finish ever to a League of Ireland season . |
| 32 | Here and there Pippo dropped a bomb , but hardly ever on a village ; he came out of sheer perversity , we felt , just to rob us of our sleep . |
| 33 | John 's trip on ‘ Defiant ’ was his first ever on a Castle and Collin Jacks reports he was very impressed not only with the locomotive but also with the surrounding Cotswold countryside . |
| 34 | I have always been careful to leave no stone unturned , ever since a time in Philadelphia when a particularly uncomfortable sofa turned out to be hiding a pair of magnificent George III sideboard dishes , subsequently sold for $66,000 . |
| 35 | Thirdly , there is a concern to explain to the Community that if there are to be compensations , we can not create a whole new system of compensatory payments which will last for ever at a price which will never be able to be paid . |
| 36 | The award was made despite one of the strongest warnings ever by a judge to a libel jury about excessive pay-outs . |
| 37 | The US space shuttle Columbia successfully completed a 14-day flight on July 9 , the longest ever by a space shuttle crew , during which the prolonged effects of weightlessness on the human body were further studied . |