Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main function of nematode haemoglobin is thought to be to transport oxygen , acquired by diffusion through the cuticle or gut , into the tissues ; blood-sucking worms presumably ingest a considerable amount of oxygenated nutrients in their diet . |
| 2 | We were working with the council at ten pence and hour so we thought we were going to improve on that a wee bit . |
| 3 | ‘ Could you elaborate on that a little ? ’ he suggested . |
| 4 | Could you expand on that a little ? |
| 5 | It was only 7.30 a m. , and still dark . |
| 6 | As Mr Hart himself asked in a letter to The Times : ‘ In the face of so pellucid a Parliamentary intention , how was it that the Revenue not only thought it worth while to try it on , but actually found two courts to agree with it ? ’ |
| 7 | It is necessary to turn back to Ezra 's childhood to find a key to that dire impatience which has led him into so strange a spiritual home as Fascist Italy . |
| 8 | He was excited by the ferocious vitality and darting breadth of reference of the work , and secretly , personally , he was rather pleased that all this had been achieved out of so peaceable , so unruffled a private existence . |
| 9 | Read it aloud half a dozen times then try to set down the framework and some key ‘ trigger words ’ on half a dozen index cards . |
| 10 | He seemed so old a few minutes ago and now he 's like a little kid again . |
| 11 | You ca n't cure one evil by bringing in another a thousand times more pernicious . ’ |
| 12 | Peter Brown in his most recent and profoundly important book Body and Society demonstrates movingly how sexuality had so different a social meaning from what it now carries that the sexual abstinences , the noisy and sometimes virulent demands for chastity and virginity , within the early Church , far from being a symptom of self-hatred and dualism , were a radical political claim to the coming of the Kingdom : a claim which women , sometimes even more than men , could make . |
| 13 | The next involved abseilling down half a huge rock before dropping into a pool with a waterfall close by . |
| 14 | He arrived on the 18th tee needing a par to get into a play-off and , with an extraordinary demonstration of the tension involved , jumped up and down half a dozen times as his tee shot headed inexorably for the bunker on the left . |
| 15 | So this a new |
| 16 | New car registrations — only half a million in 1958 — jumped in 1963 to more than a million ( Today , they are running at two million . ) |
| 17 | In contrast , of households with three or more adults only half a million will be gainers , whereas 1.5 million will be losers . |
| 18 | Hence the number of men in private sector schemes increased dramatically , by 3 million between 1956 and 1967 , but among women by only half a million ( Government Actuary , 1981 , p. 6 ) . |
| 19 | Most Paris-club countries prefer the less generous ‘ enhanced Toronto terms ’ , which cancel only half a poor country 's debts contracted before a certain date . |
| 20 | Of the 60 or so gill-net vessels which had worked around the peninsula in the late 1970s , only half a dozen remained by 1986 . |
| 21 | His attention had been drawn away for only five or six seconds and there were surely only half a dozen shops that she could have entered . |
| 22 | Bob went on from there , season in , season out , to the end of 1931–32 , by which time he had made 293 League appearances for Crystal Palace ( a club record at the time , but of course they did not make much of such things in those days ) and even today , almost 60 years later , there are fewer than only half a dozen Palace men who have played more times for us than that . |
| 23 | Although some 40 firms in Britain supply robots , only half a dozen make them . |
| 24 | As there are often only half a dozen wash-basins , turns must be arranged and children soon realise that there are too many or not enough children for the basins available . |
| 25 | It is as yet far from complete , with only half a dozen of the country 's forty-plus aerodromes included , but subscribers are promised that the remainder will be issued them as soon as possible . |
| 26 | The Lancashire team , housed only half a dozen miles from Old Trafford , have slipped from grace after months of political unheaval following their last-gasp failure to beat Barnet to an automatic place in the Football League two years ago . |
| 27 | Only half a dozen Britons are bona fide professionals and the Coopers are certain to cash in if the sport continues to boom . |
| 28 | Only half a dozen men and I were left , but almost at once a third plane arrived , and having been warned that they dared not wait as there were Jap planes about , we got on board and the plane took oft almost empty . |
| 29 | I can name you players who have over 50 caps and had only half a dozen good games and still keep getting picked . ’ |
| 30 | Swansea were only half a dozen points short of matching Llanelli 's record haul in a spectacular 73-24 thrashing of South Wales Police . |