Example sentences of "of [adv] a [adj] [noun pl] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the ground conditions in some parts of Europe make good results extremely difficult to obtain : some areas of Portugal , for instance , have field sizes of only a few metres and exhibit multi-level and multi-seasonal cropping . |
| 2 | She and her companion lived in a paddock of only a few acres and so required daily feed of grain and hay . |
| 3 | They were in a village of perhaps a dozen houses and a white log church , out on a plain somewhere under a big , big sky ; each building stood well apart from its neighbours with just open common land between them , and the grass on that common land was deep and uncut . |
| 4 | As Donald Davie has remarked , his concept of a minority culture was modelled on the ‘ gathered church ’ of the Dissenters — a communion of saints — and the irreplaceable charm of Scrutiny to the post-war undergraduate lay ultimately in the simple fact that on every issue it made things look simple : ‘ a present of perhaps a dozen authors or books or whole periods and genres of literature which I not only need not but should not read . ’ |
| 5 | And it was n't a case of just a few beatings and that |
| 6 | The immense width of the two main roads , one with a minimum width of practically a hundred feet and the other of sixty-six feet , reflects the state of even the main roads before the days of the turnpikes and above all of the scientific roadmaking initiated by Metcalf and Macadam in the late eighteenth century . |
| 7 | ‘ He ripped off a firm of disreputable City stockbrokers to the tune of about a million pounds and spent it on high living — yachts , mistresses , that sort of thing . |