Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A genuinely corinthian sailor who spurns sponsorship , she shoe-horns her racing and preparation into a few weeks ' annual holiday taken from London-based solicitors Farrers and Co . |
| 2 | For a girl used to the noise and chaos of an all girls ' apartment , Buckingham Palace felt like anywhere but home . |
| 3 | ‘ Listen , if I was n't just John Dyson , but The John Dyson , people would n't even waste their time asking me to do ten-guinea talks for the Overseas Service — they 'd know I 'd be fully occupied doing pieces for Playboy and Esquire at a thousand dollars a time , and going on television at a hundred guineas an appearance . |
| 4 | She will probably welcome your offer of help with such matters as the registration of the death , notifying distant friends , putting an announcement of death in local or national newspapers if she wants this , and dealing with kindly enquiries from neighbours in a tactful way , so that they understand that she may not be feeling like having too many callers at first but will greatly appreciate their help and sympathy in a few days ' ( or weeks , ) time ; and making arrangements for the funeral and any family gathering that is to take place afterwards . |
| 5 | The table was littered with shrimp whiskers , the sponge-cake gobbled up to the last crumb — but all she could do was to sip painfully at a meagre cup of tea and toy with a few shoots of mustard and cress , although she had prepared the extensive meal . |
| 6 | In the past , such houses had always been offered to the National Trust , which had initially taken them without endowment , accepting instead an undertaking that the Ministry of Works would make good any deficit on repairs and maintenance through a Historic Buildings Council grant . |
| 7 | I tried to keep his words in the front of my mind , particularly during the bad times when we were clearing everything out and the dust and debris of a hundred years was falling into our eyes . |
| 8 | Summarize the consumption figures for coal and petroleum in a few sentences . |
| 9 | The first woman to become a world Grandmaster of bridge , she was bridge correspondent of The Guardian and author of a dozen books including her autobiography , A Vulnerable Game . |
| 10 | One arrived at the bedside of a total stranger , and inside of a few hours that stranger became not merely the most important person in the world , but one 's entire world . |
| 11 | Information Systems Development Methodologies : Practical and innovative solutions to the problems associated with modern Information System methodologies and Computer Aided System Engineering ( CASE ) tools ; Framework for the evaluation , comparison and selection of Information System development methodologies/CASE tools ; Design and development of an object-oriented systems development methodology ; Intelligent analyst workbench migration mechanisms . |
| 12 | There 's over 120 pages of invaluable advice and inspiration plus an informative Gardeners ' Manual to pull out and collect . |
| 13 | After baking , pierce with a skewer and spoon over a few tablespoons of brandy . |
| 14 | He still had I am a Fugitive in mind and he recalled how in that ‘ job ’ ( in itself a revealing word ) ‘ every man and woman within a hundred yards of camera range is acting his head off , figuring that he is a Clark Gable , or a Garbo ! ’ |
| 15 | Low stone walls divided the garden up into different segments , and these were marbled with moss and lichen in a dozen shades of gold and green , and often hidden completely under tumbling masses of roses , clematis and ivy . |
| 16 | There was a farm and plantation of a hundred acres and a hospital with fifty beds for in-patients , plus outpatient facilities . |
| 17 | Perhaps cuckoos have only in recent centuries started parasitizing their present hosts , and will in a few centuries be forced to give them up and victimize other species . |
| 18 | Pile this back into the skins , sprinkle with grated cheese and grill for a few minutes . |
| 19 | Recent examples include a contract for the general building refurbishment of the Tyne Tunnel , contracts for both computer software and hardware for an automated tolls registration system . |
| 20 | They may not be the best of friends , but between them they can quite well be left in charge of Harry and Hillmarden for a few days . ’ |
| 21 | The missiles would blast out of their launchers , navigate automatically across Europe , and land within a few metres of targets such as airfields , ports , power stations , dams and locks . |
| 22 | US Defence Department officials reported on Nov. 28 that the proposed cuts up to 1994 were a " worst case projection " and the maximum possible , based upon a projected CFE agreement and signing of a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START-for June 1989 session see p. 36751 ) , with 50 per cent cuts in Soviet and US strategic nuclear arsenals . |
| 23 | At around this time I began to give private lessons in Latin and mathematics to a few boys who were in their first and second years of school in Parma or who had to take an entrance examination . |
| 24 | It is true that he knew the Prime Ministers of the later 1940s and early 1950s , Attlee and Churchill , personally , and he was not averse to breaking protocol by raising policy matters with them behind the back of their Minister of Fuel and Power on a few occasions . |
| 25 | It is a ledger , the size and solidity of an old-fashioned accounts book , with broken corners and an air of belonging to that grey period which is too far gone to be new but not yet far enough off to be old . |
| 26 | Add the brandy to the meat juices and heat for a few seconds before igniting . |
| 27 | ‘ The deaths of father and son within a few days of each other raise questions to which I have to find satisfactory answers . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , we 're supposed to know something about handguns , and fire off a few rounds every so often . |
| 29 | I wanted to spring an automatic rifle from my case and fire off a few shots , making them shriek and cower . |
| 30 | I find it very depressing that personnel directors and personnel managers are still , in some companies , questioning the importance and effectiveness of a computerised personnel information system . |