Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [prep] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | IBM is now making between a few hundred and a few thousand PowerPC 601s a month in Vermont . |
| 32 | The date of an election is now known until a few weeks before the event , when the prime minister recommends a dissolution of Parliament to the Queen . |
| 33 | Gy François then led us to the village 's chimpanzee sanctuary , a small grass-covered shelter where rice is regularly laid on a few very old-looking chimpanzee skulls . |
| 34 | Normally , each hair follicle goes through a resting phase ( telogen ) every few years : hair stops growing , falls out and is n't replaced for a few months . |
| 35 | This rationality is well described by a former head of the British civil service , Sir Douglas Allen : ‘ The desire for uniformity of treatment , coupled with accountability for decisions , require elaborate codes and rules so that a multiplicity of decision-makers can produce acceptably similar results in similar cases ’ ( cited in Thomson 1983 : 141 ) . |
| 36 | The level of the solution is then adjusted to a few centimetres above the level of solvent in s by means of a levelling rod 1 . |
| 37 | The phenomenon is vividly described by a former chairman of the British Prices and Incomes Board : |
| 38 | The position is neatly summarized by a former chairman of the British Railways Board , Lord Beeching : |
| 39 | BBC journalists took strike action in protest , and the programme was eventually screened with a few face-saving deletions , but the episode called into question the Board of Governor 's commitment to freedom of expression . |
| 40 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 41 | Unfortunately the cup was only awarded for a few years before that too disappeared . |
| 42 | Lepine was not cremated for a few days yet , until after the despatch of a couple of his victims also being tended to at the Côte-Des-Neiges cemetery , opposite the mountain , alongside the University of Montreal , where Marc Lepine joined his victims in the silence at the centre . |
| 43 | The accident occurred late on Tuesday or early on Wednesday but was not discovered until a few survivors emerged and bodies began floating ashore . |
| 44 | Gas gangrene , for which an effective cure was not discovered till a few weeks before the Armistice , claimed an ever-increasing toll ; during the April fighting on the Right Bank , one French regiment had thirty-two officers wounded of whom no fewer than nineteen died subsequently , mostly from gas gangrene . |
| 45 | Local information suggests that it was occasionally worked for a few years after this , but by the 1950s had stopped completely . |
| 46 | Well , it was actually started by a few railway men , th right opposite Street there used to be hand laundry , and then there was a row of houses , from there , running up to the corner of Street where the club stands originally , but in the beginning it was just a row of small houses , and it started with a few railway men having a meet holding the meetings in this house , in these houses , and I 've got very dim memories of how it actually started but it was a real event when they were first , before they actually built the club it was run in the row of houses that ran from up Street as I say there was a little hand laundry corner of Street heading onto Street on the left hand side was the greengrocers , and that , they kept that greengrocers for as long as I can remember . |