Example sentences of "and [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sylvia comes from nine to five each weekday , and nurses are on duty between six and 10 every evening and for a few hours at the weekend . |
| 2 | He was looking directly at Bridges , but Bridges looked imperturbably back , and after a few moments of heavy silence Kegan coughed and returned to the paper in his hand . |
| 3 | Ice fishing , I find , is as cold as anything I have ever tried in the Arctic , and after a few minutes of unproductive ass-freezing I pack it in . |
| 4 | I 'd fetch her home , clean her up , straighten her out and take care of her for as long as she 'd let me , but the call of the wild was strong and after a few days of sleeping on the couch , she 'd vanish again . |
| 5 | In a month 's time we 'll have a quiet wedding in the local church , and after a few days in London we 'll travel through all the countries of Europe . ’ |
| 6 | Too stunned to be furious , Maggie sat and after a few seconds of close and silent scrutiny Devlin Parnham sat too , facing her across a magnificent Persian rug , with the fire banked as high as if it were mid-winter . |
| 7 | It forms a record of not only the resources allocated , but also those requested , and after a few months of operating the system the project leaders ' requests become realistic and they even strike agreements with each other on timing and amount of resources in advance of the meeting . |
| 8 | The trip was a total success , and despite a few hiccups in transit we were able to transport some 5O , OOO items to the main hospital in addition to taking supplies to the towns at Clut-Napoca and Milas . |
| 9 | Only after that , and with a few facts from your GP , plus half a page on your stresses during the last five years — I had to overflow onto the back of my page and with a little encouragement could easily have made it a 100,000 words — can you go through the eye of the needle . |
| 10 | I started to fix the tongue and groove boarding , and with a few boards in place , felt confident enough to work on the roof . |
| 11 | In 891/1486 , when Bayezid II built his medrese in Amasya , he stipulated that the muftis of Amasya should act as muderris , a condition which is reported to have been observed without exception until 1033/1623–4 , and with a few exceptions until 1084/1673–4 when the two offices were finally separated . |
| 12 | By definition , the altruistic majority must promote the reproductive success of the selfish the reproductive success of the selfish organism , the mutant , will be far greater than the altruist , and within a few generations of selfish individuals . |
| 13 | And within a few hours of taking it , that 's when this happened to me . |
| 14 | And within a few hours of meeting 25-year-old Chris , Heather agreed to spend the rest of her life with him . |
| 15 | Beyond the apple trees and within a few feet of the river is a large raised platform , visible in winter before its annual submergence in weeds , part of a vanished building , and there are clear lines of stone walls adjoining it . |
| 16 | Under the legislation this was not in fact required ( only the Boards as a whole were required to break even ‘ taking one year with another ’ ) , but Citrine and his senior colleagues believed that it was a desirable principle that each Board should break even , and within a few years of nationalisation this was also tacitly accepted by the Boards . |
| 17 | Cocks married in 1688 Frances , daughter of Richard Neville of Billingbear , Berkshire , and within a few months of being widowed , in 1724 , took as his second wife Mary , daughter of William Bethell of Swindon . |
| 18 | He repudiated the oath by which he had restored to the Holy See the ecclesiastical rights and privileges enjoyed by the emperors and the kings of Sicily and within a few months of his coronation he began to progress down into Italy . |
| 19 | These two mills were also on the direct route to Bristol and within a few miles of Fromebridge . |
| 20 | The fact that it was larger than most local mills and within a few miles of Cirencester probably saved it . |
| 21 | And within a few days of his return from the United States , he wrote to me on 4 August to the Kensington Mews flat : |
| 22 | In short the pictures in an art museum have been closely monitored , often through decades and in a few cases for centuries , so full descriptions that appear in the catalogues have a thorough-paced authority . |
| 23 | Myenteric plexuses often participate in familial amyloid polyneuropathy and in a few cases with AL and AA . |
| 24 | In the villages without supplies water for all domestic purposes is fetched from springs , from wells and in a few cases from streams . |
| 25 | Sussex heathlands occur on the Lower Greensand in the west and north-west of the county , in the central area of the High Weald on the Hastings Beds , and in a few places on the Downs where there are superficial deposits of acidic soils . |
| 26 | In some regions , the cable is split into several parallel strands , and at a few points around the margin ( typically two or three ) the continuity of the cable is broken , the actin distribution appears disorderly , and the wound front is irregular rather than smoothly curved ; some of these discontinuities may represent sites of stronger attachment to the substratum . |
| 27 | The list of honorary and corresponding members included gentlemen living in 30 English counties , and at a few places in Scotland and Wales . |