Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ In some cases managers are stuck in the middle of supporters with only a couple of inches of space between them , ’ said chief executive John Camkin .
2 Almost any substantial group of buildings with perhaps a shop , or village hall is today called a village and this leads to great confusion , both for researchers looking at earlier arrangements , and for the inhabitants for whom finer definitions are not needed .
3 Only then , as they swung in a half-circle with a hiss of blades between them , changing places on the slope like a pair of dancers with only a foot of air separating their faces , did Isambard know his mason again .
4 Mr Ramsay said sorting out Mr Bond 's finances would take a team of accountants at least a year , with the investigation stretching around the world .
5 Now a polymer represents a different state of affairs from either a crystal or a gas .
6 Most booking conditions are hedged with all sorts of exclusions about why a tour operator ca n't be held liable when things go wrong .
7 In 1922 the percentage of households without even a plough was 32.7 in the Central Industrial Region , 33.6 in the Siberian guberniia of Omsk , and 55.8 in the guberniia of Tsaritsyn to the south of Saratov .
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