Example sentences of "a [noun] of [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We would have caught him eventually but this time it was thankfully a case of sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 2 | IT was a case of so near and yet so far for Linfield at Windsor Park last night . |
| 3 | ‘ My initial inquiries suggest that a figure of significantly less than 10 per cent is a real possibility , ’ Mr Pulman said . |
| 4 | The period since 1945 , a stretch of rather more than 40 years , may be considered as a whole . |
| 5 | It 's the only dignified way of telling them that you 're not going to be made a fool of any longer and you 're not going to be dragged down to their level . ’ |
| 6 | A footnote in the report of the select committee records that there were 2,927 mandatory life sentence cases in a period of slightly more than 23 years , an average of 127 a year . |
| 7 | On the contrary , the story in the Gospels is often utterly divorced from all historical context — a narrative of stark , timeless , mythic simplicity enacted in a sort of limbo , a never-never-land of long ago and far away . |