Example sentences of "of a [det] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No-one would go to the trouble to devise such an imposture , and kill at least once , probably twice , to maintain it , just for the possibility of a few snippets of military information . |
| 2 | Robbins 's script exposes the amorphous nature of the language of the right , and how hearts and minds are won by the simple utterance of a few platitudes about American values , freedom and the family . |
| 3 | As part of the process of writing from the very beginning , and writing in small steps , from the first day you should write down , and keep available , notes consisting of a few sentences on each of the following : ( a ) the essay 's hypothesis ( the claim it is interested in exploring ) ; ( b ) the evidence or data you are going to use ( the facts , quotes , parallel cases from other texts , etc. , that you are in the process of collecting ) ; ( c ) brief statements of your ideas so far ; ( d ) in the case of a longer dissertation , the preliminary results of a " literature search " ( a survey of bibliographies to find things to read ) . |
| 4 | Nor was it powerful enough , outside of a few streets with Prussian generals ' names , to force through a genuinely modern network of boulevards . |
| 5 | Edward , school apart , was living a much more exciting life at the ramshackle , free-and-easy household of a friend , and exploring the common around his home in ever-increasing circles in the company of a few youths of similar tastes . |
| 6 | ‘ Time-lapse ’ , as its name suggests , makes possible recording in bursts of a few frames at variable time intervals so that subjects such as the movement of clouds or the budding of flowers can be studied in speeded-up replay . |
| 7 | The son of Caerleon is a progressive type , apparently certain to come of a few pounds for that introduction , and should be good enough to take the Queen 's Own Yorkshire Dragoons Stakes . |
| 8 | Clearly there are other choices for the parameters , but for all realistic values the critical concentrations will be small , and the length scale of the individual layers will be a small fraction of the chamber depth in the range of a few centimetres to several metres . |
| 9 | There is yet no general explanation for the fertility decline ( Cleland and Wilson 1987 ) ; it is now clear that the transition began within the space of a few decades throughout Western Europe , from Trieste to Tromso , in a wide variety of countries ( Coale and Watkins 1986 ) . |
| 10 | Over a period of a few days during early August the world 's perception of the Kingdom shifted dramatically , so that King Hussein was no longer portrayed as one of the chief US allies in the region , but instead as one of Saddam Hussein 's prime collaborators . |
| 11 | On Hicks 's death in 1869 the business was taken over by G. R. Crickmay of Weymouth and , with the exception of a few weeks in 1870 spent in London with John Raphael Brandon , architect of the Catholic Apostolic Church in Gordon Square , Hardy worked intermittently with Crickmay in Dorchester and Weymouth until 1872 . |
| 12 | In the space of a few months in late 1925 , Nizan joined and left the French fascist movement , Le Faisceau , led by Georges Valois , and in an equally short space of time in early 1926 , he joined the French communist party for the first time and subsequently left . |
| 13 | DDT and PCB levels in the blubber of a few porpoises from eastern Scotland analysed in 1967 were considerably higher than in seals from the same area . |
| 14 | Making out it was all so serious , instead of a few smokes with other kids and a little shop-lifting to pay for it . |
| 15 | Although the prevalence of a few types of physical impairments is higher among males , many of the largest subgroups of older disabled people contain more women than men . |
| 16 | Free fatty acids were then eluted three times with methanol acidified to pH 3 by the addition of a few drops of acetic acid . |
| 17 | Seismic data were returned to Earth over a period of a few years from these five stations , though they were reduced to four when the Apollo 11 station stopped working . |
| 18 | There was never a more astonishing Revolution accomplished in the internal system of any country than there has been within the compass of a few years in that of England … |
| 19 | Conversely , then , a new variety can be formed if this conservative action of crossing is circumvented by reproductive isolation of a few individuals in new conditions , whether that isolation arises with or without geographical segregation . |
| 20 | Later developments in quantum electrodynamics ( as the theory of the interaction of light and electrons is called ) have led to the calculation of effects , such as the Lamb shift in hydrogen , which agree with experiment to the limits of available accuracy of a few parts per million . |