Example sentences of "of [noun] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal reason for this is the high degree of reliance a human places on linguistic information . |
| 2 | It is a wonderful fact that I should be affected , and thus deeply and powerfully , more than by aught else in all my experience — that this fruit should be borne in me sprung from a seed finer than the spores of fungi , floated from other atmospheres ! finer than the dust caught in the sails of vessels a thousand miles from land ! |
| 3 | He spins a tiny triangle of silk a few millimetres in length and deposits a drop of sperm on to it from the gland that lies underneath his body . |
| 4 | I suspect that for length of service a few others like Sir Alastair Burnet , Mike Neville and Stuart Hall run me pretty close . |
| 5 | Clearly , the number of males a female mates with has little or no effect on the numbers of her offspring . |
| 6 | The tombs of Tuna- el-Gebel , the ancient necropolis of Hermopolis a few miles to the west , appeared to be drowning in desert . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's a patch of grass a few feet by a few feet , ’ I informed him , suddenly aware that Mr Palmer had never visited Chelsea Terrace in his life . |
| 8 | At the head of a small cavalry force he rode almost non-stop for two days and nights and on 12 February he fell upon Aimar 's routiers as they attacked the church of Gorre a dozen miles to the west of Limoges , believing him to be still somewhere beyond Poitiers . |
| 9 | He wrote of it as seeds finer than the spores of fungi or dust caught in the sails of ships a thousand miles from land . |
| 10 | So if doctors find concentrations of HPD a few days after the injection , they know there are tumours there . |
| 11 | Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle . |
| 12 | Crossing the last barrier , a narrow but fast-flowing river , the rebel army drew up on the plain of Samugarh a few miles from Agra . |