Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In discussing the implications of their study , Rowe and Lambert say ‘ rehabilitation for children in long-term care is still for the most part a slogan rather than a reality ’ . |
| 2 | But for the most part a house is not a depreciating item . |
| 3 | Research evidence suggests , however , that for the most part a mother-in-law is not treated as equivalent to a mother , nor a sister-in-law to a sister , and so on . |
| 4 | But functional requirements within a development are for the most part a matter for the developers and their customers . |
| 5 | Right thanks a lot Shane that 's lovely . |
| 6 | Right thanks a lot me dear for your trouble |
| 7 | Right thanks a lot . |
| 8 | Only thruppence a week , dues were scuse me . |
| 9 | FOR ONLY £23.99 A MONTH |
| 10 | Asian rhino horn is believed to be more potent and is worth around £30,000 a kilo , while the larger African horn fetches only £1,000 a kilo . |
| 11 | Fears of recession which heightened the perception of silver as an industrial metal and heavy over-supply over an extended period , caused prices to plummet to below $4.00 a troy ounce in mid-December for the first time in fifteen years . |
| 12 | W those with incomes below £40 a week , only 21 per cent were paying off credit transactions currently , compared with 45 per cent with incomes between £40 and £79 a week , 58 per cent between £80 and £124 a week , and 57 per cent over £125 . |
| 13 | It is a particularly surprising conclusion for so reductionist a subject as physics . |
| 14 | It will also enable the British shipowner to compete more favourably with his foreign rivals as it is evident that if the English shipowner pays £pound4.15s a month whereas the foreign shipowners for the same class of labour pays only £pound2.10s a month , he must be better able to compete and members must therefore recognise the importance of the International Movement " . |
| 15 | The second is a structure , unique in its figures and inscription , in memory of the Waggoners ' Reserve , a volunteer corps of 1,000 local farmworkers , paid only £1 a year , who provided horse-drawn transport carrying vital supplies to the trenches in Europe during the First World War . |
| 16 | The borderland between gentlemen and others occurred in the region below £20 a year . |
| 17 | The major problem is likely to be that enterprising ‘ try-outers ’ will hack the code they 've been given to play with and render the program fully usable if companies merely decrement a counter and destroy its function once it reaches zero as you suggest . |
| 18 | But now that the population is no longer growing , increases in GNP will have to rely almost entirely on rising productivity — and during the 1970s and 1980s productivity grew , on average , by only 3% a year . |
| 19 | The Higher Grade Schools charged only 9d a week , and the Grammar School fees were now £9 a year , or more than four times as great . |
| 20 | In the telegram which Randolph sent her from Cape Town telling her what had happened , he asked her on no account to tell his father , the prime minister , but to arrange payments on the instalment plan of perhaps £10 a month to a list of the names he enclosed who had fleeced him at the cards tables . |
| 21 | That is why we are opposed to the poorest person in Westminster paying only £3 a week less in council tax than the richest , including some Tory Members . |
| 22 | This is something of a doubtful privilege since such women receive only £10 a week . |
| 23 | Petrol costs only 14p a litre . |
| 24 | The trading employees in India were not paid salaries in the modern sense of income they could live on ; they got small retainers , starting at perhaps £5 a year , and it was taken for granted that they would supplement their retainers by trading , sometimes acting as agents buying the goods that would eventually be exported by the Company ( though this could easily lead to fraud ) , but more often dealing for their own account . |
| 25 | His basic salary as Naval Officer was only $800 a year which was not high for the importance of his position but compared favourably with the $180 a year he had received as an army Captain 3 years earlier . |
| 26 | These cost only fourpence a pound and no doubt were a good means to provide longer life to footwear . |
| 27 | Yet the amount of African debt relief — through the Group of Seven 's 1988 Toronto agreement — has been pitiful ( saving debtors only $100m a year in cash flow , according to the World Bank ) . |
| 28 | Texan lawmakers , who are paid only $600 a month for their public service , argue that they can not afford to live in Austin . |
| 29 | Our drink retails at only £2.35p a bottle , ’ he added . |
| 30 | ‘ Saturday : Just before the five o'clock matinée a note arrives marked ‘ Urgent ’ . |