Example sentences of "from the [noun] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barrels of drinking water were delivered from the village once a week . |
| 2 | For novices , anxiety tended to mount steadily from the day before a jump to the moment of jumping . |
| 3 | From the mid-1970s onwards a number of factors began to threaten the continued existence of this ‘ single capacity ’ system : |
| 4 | To the people of his little island , two miles long and three-quarters of a mile wide , ‘ Isle of Muck ’ fetched a tailor from the mainland twice a year and a blacksmith from the Isle of Eigg ( Johnson has not so far reflected upon the name of the laird of Eigg ) . |
| 5 | Sparks flew up from the pavement only a fraction of an inch from his father 's head . |
| 6 | By the summer of 1978 I 've lost another stone , without meaning to , and the rust-coloured cords I ordered from the catalogue only a month ago are already hanging off me . |
| 7 | We get some disks from the States once a month , that are in WordPerfect |