Example sentences of "be a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been a grand few minutes ' work . |
| 2 | There were a good many farmers ' sons going in the doors of University College today for the first time . |
| 3 | Indeed , it would have had to have begun much earlier , her grandchildren 's school being a good fifteen minutes ' walk away , on the other side of West End Lane . |
| 4 | Yelverton is a long lost lepers ' bell , a simple reminder that all is n't well beyond Game Boy . |
| 5 | Here , they can combine a professional career with the joys of rural living : Richard 's practice as a chartered surveyor is an easy eight minutes ' drive away , just long enough to ‘ listen to the traffic reports and think of all those people on the M25 ! ’ |
| 6 | The salary of the post to which the unlucky Mr Achterlonie aspired was a mere twenty pounds per annum , but Montrose did not disdain it , conscious that ‘ triffling as such a post is it may effectuallie oblidge some body who may be reddie to repay such a favor upon ane other occasion ’ . |