Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheringham , who cost £2 million from Millwall 12 months ago , was lined up for Spurs a fortnight ago but the deal was called off at the last minute . |
| 2 | Now it 's just what you 've done there , right , but you 've now got to start thinking about signs a bit , have n't you ? |
| 3 | If fixed costs are shared between products a method of allocating and apportioning these costs to individual products must be introduced . |
| 4 | Nobody who read the Bible could legitimately doubt that miracles had once occurred ; the question whether they still did so became for doubters a test of their faith . |
| 5 | For centuries a seaport — today the harbour is still a haven for yachtsmen , fishing boats and pleasure cruisers . |
| 6 | More straightforwardly , awareness of another nation 's literature helps to create for authors a sense of the particular character and limitations of their own , encouraging the pursuit of alternatives and possibilities for innovation and change . |
| 7 | If we were to take a formal view of the entailments of such a declarative sentence ( like that , for example , expressed in Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 150f. ) , we would be obliged to accept as entailments a set of sentences which would include the following : |
| 8 | Helen , could you call this kind of personal recollection about furnishings a type of alternative history , perhaps like oral history ? |
| 9 | Schools responded variously , some taking up the opportunity , or challenge , of collaborative teaching while others seized the chance to reduce class sizes , for decades a source of frustration and complaint in the primary profession . |
| 10 | I think they 've gone off potatoes a bit |
| 11 | To add to AW 's existing range of products a number of high quality and complementary brands of beer with the capacity not only for regional development but also rapid national development through AW 's marketing network . |
| 12 | According to the Royal Mint around twenty three thousand pounds of coins a day disappear ! |
| 13 | There is normally no restriction on the maximum number of copies a candidate may produce , but he or she will normally make at least one personal copy , in additional to those supplied to the university in fulfilment of degree requirements . |
| 14 | In all but the very smallest of projects a number of people will be involved , some with specialist knowledge not necessarily in the possession of the project manager . |
| 15 | It 's very difficult until they can sort of reactions a bit quicker |
| 16 | GCHQ has equipment costing billions of pounds , capable of intercepting millions of calls a year . |
| 17 | Answer : a notched wooden roller that is turned gently back and forth between the palms and fingers for a couple of minutes a day . |
| 18 | A couple of minutes a day with a good handcream is the key to smooth , soft hands . |
| 19 | The number of prisoners a section has accumulated during a shift is used as a measure of performance and becomes one of the bases of competition between the sections . |
| 20 | Such an effect has been estimated to cause an increase in the incidence of basal cell and squamous cell ( non-melanoma ) skin cancer by tens or even hundreds of thousands of cases a year in the United States . |
| 21 | ‘ Just a couple of hours a day . ’ |
| 22 | The dividing wall holding this tank only attracts sunlight from one side and for only a couple of hours a day , and only at the height of summer . |
| 23 | They 've helped me with the baby , they take her away for a couple of hours a day , and they take you out to places — sports centres and hospitals . |
| 24 | DEAR Tom : Regarding Knowsley Social Services opening the new Crossroads Care Unit for a couple of hours a day . |
| 25 | Couple of hours a day . |
| 26 | Well , it 's every night but it 's just a couple of hours a night . |
| 27 | Probably make a bit more hours , and course there might be er a a couple of hours a night , it 'll probably be I reckon it 'll probably from five to about er seven . |
| 28 | The conventional family division of labour not only reduces the number of hours a woman is available for paid work but also reduces the amount she could expect to earn per hour even in a non-discriminatory labour market . |
| 29 | The minimum number of hours a student could work on language varied wildly , probably because of the variable interpretations of ‘ language work ’ referred to above . |
| 30 | At first she had just worked a couple of hours a week for Graham . |