Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , these have been due to large-scale rationalization , including a reduction of nearly a quarter of their work force between 1980 and 1984 . |
| 2 | Oh just a smir of rain was just a kind of hardly a drizzle . |
| 3 | The editor of The Criterion , from 1923 and more insistently from 1926 , revealed himself as a writer with indeed a message , of a very bleak and uncompromising sort , affronting at almost every point the suppositions of secular liberalism . |
| 4 | Q. I am a beginner with around a year 's experience and I set up a 48″ × 21″ × 18″ ( water height ) marine tank last December . |
| 5 | I 've just given the whole of life a miss for nearly a year , all because of bloody Adrian . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll have a whisky with just a dash of water . ’ |
| 7 | In this article we take a look at how a commitment to Total Quality Management is helping Noble Metals at Royston to grow in what continues to be a depressed marketplace … |
| 8 | But in between these new feelings there was a gap of nearly a year and in that time something so terrible had happened . |
| 9 | ‘ We have a break of almost a fortnight after the Sheffield United game on Wednesday . |
| 10 | But from 1983 opportunities in the Gulf were substantially reduced when the region experienced a severe economic downturn as a result of both an oil and a world-wide recession . |
| 11 | You see at Banbury School our governing body erm has expressed itself clearly as against the tertiary education proposals as they were first put forward , and I am very pleased to have heard during the debate that they 've been amended as a result of quite a lot as a result of the discussion that has gone on . |
| 12 | You want a piece with quite a bit of fat marbling the inside . |
| 13 | The father in one family , himself a compositor with both a son and daughter following his trade , was described as " a first-class workman , clever , thoughtful and well-read … he is in the Trade Union " and also attended Labour Party meetings ( indicating incidentally that it was not necessarily a sign of disaffection from the union for a comp to send his daughter to the trade ) . |
| 14 | Which er I did eventually get on to and was a convenor for quite a number of years . |
| 15 | There he sits at a table , a confident and debonaire man-about-town , a bachelor with even a touch of the dandy about him . |
| 16 | As a coach to both a colts XV and a senior team I have seen the game my charges play become more free flowing by doing away with the juggernaut mentality . |
| 17 | In the cavernous exhibition hall , more than 300 salesmen offered everything from reproduction Gatling guns to a Barrett 82A , a semi-automatic rifle with a range of almost a mile — ‘ as used by three countries in Operation Desert Storm . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Three men see a boy for about a second in the dark , in the middle of a lot of smoke and noise . |
| 19 | Vegetation , like this tree found in the same area , suggests that the mammoths were existing in a climate at least a couple of degrees warmer than southern Britain has now . |
| 20 | There followed a period of over a year when Karl moved aimlessly through a succession of jobs . |
| 21 | They all had their pictures done and eventually over a period of about a year , she actually did a portrait of everybody in the Home . |
| 22 | Over a period of about a year he was regressed six times at regular intervals . |
| 23 | JEB Fasteners had purchased all the shares in a private company having relied on its accounts for a period of about a year since incorporation . |
| 24 | The plagues probably occurred over a period of about a year . |
| 25 | I have n't had a period for over a year , and although sometimes I think to myself ‘ I 'm all right really ’ , then I remember I have n't got my periods back and I realise that it 's not as simple as it seems . |
| 26 | The motorspeeder had entered a canyon at least a mile wide . |
| 27 | He was replying to a query about how a letter correctly addressed to 27 The Grove , Hartlepool TS5 1PQ had been delivered to 27 The Grove , Hartlepool TS26 9LZ . |
| 28 | So I had a job for about a year er in a fruit shop and then I did n't like the Saturday work |
| 29 | If , if Mr accepts that , can I er , call a meeting with perhaps a member from each of the groups and an M F U and C , C L A ? |
| 30 | Isolated in the middle of the pacific Ocean , 3,200 miles from Tahiti , and with a sea-crossing of almost a month stretching out before him to the next port of call , Darwin 's stay in this inhospitable volcanic outcrop must have been one of the lowest points for him on the entire trip . |