Example sentences of "no [adj] [conj] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no later than half an hour ago contacted my office and there has been no official communication re any decision being made on the royal dockyard and the capacity none whatsoever . |
| 2 | It was no more and no less than such a creature deserved . |
| 3 | In Elizabethan Willingham the typical holding was no more than half a yardland , a size which in practice varied from 14 to over 20 acres . |
| 4 | Mounds of dirt , rock and sand — little hills engulfed by dunes — blocked our view so that we could see no more than half a mile in any direction . |
| 5 | The two narrows are narrow indeed — the first no more than half a mile wide and , before the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 , crowded with a mass of shipping . |
| 6 | The tunnels were gloomier , the only illumination coming from occasional bf tubes suspended awkwardly from holes hacked at random in the roof , no more than half a metre above their heads . |
| 7 | Cambridge put up a tremendous fight and there was no more than half a length between the crews for 14 minutes . |
| 8 | The first English gold coin was struck only in 1255 and it was not until 1344 that the country was able to begin to sustain what proved to be no more than half a millennium of minting a gold denomination in its regular coinage . |
| 9 | 1 No more than half an hour before serving , halve , stone and peel the avocados . |
| 10 | Denholm was surrounded by an almost palpable aura of aristocratic exhaustion that had disturbed and irritated Talbot in the early stage of their acquaintanceship , a feeling that had lasted for no more than half an hour . |
| 11 | From there , the crossing and the distance he had covered on that path , to the place where he was found , would take him no more than half an hour — less , if he was a brisk walker , and it was raining , he 'd be no longer than he need out in it . |
| 12 | She allowed herself to read for no more than half an hour a day . |
| 13 | According to Swayne , it is the creature 's habit to be out for no more than half an hour at night . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ No more than half an hour . |
| 15 | No more than half an hour . ’ |