Example sentences of "of a [adj] [noun pl] from the " in BNC.
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1 | But it was n't until Koussevitzky offered a commission of a thousand dollars from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation that Ben was seriously able to contemplate setting aside all the time that is required to write a full-scale opera . |
2 | Germany has in the past year alone accepted some quarter of a million refugees from the former Yugoslavia . |
3 | A yearly budget of a million pounds from the cigarette company make Fusil 's dream for an annual multi-discipline event in the most beautiful corners of the world come true . |
4 | However , there was a delay of a few minutes from the start of the experiment before the chicks ate their first camouflaged rice grains . |
5 | It was in a sad little side street — one of a few survivors from the era of terraced housing before the sprawling council estate was built in the fifties . |
6 | Journalists must be told that this is a speculative lunch with only a small information content and that the general intent is to discuss the subject in broad terms with the injection of a few ideas from the PROs . |