Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house was in need of total renovation and would not be habitable for nearly a year , but the Ashleys moved into a hotel in Le Touquet from where they hoped to oversee the extensive repairs to the exterior and interior . |
| 2 | oh you it 's due for about a bit more then |
| 3 | My brother in law died and i felt gutted for quite a long time |
| 4 | If this is making atrocities palatable for not a few concerned citizens the aftertaste is a bit too much . |
| 5 | It seemed that I was asleep for just a few minutes when I was awakened by some noisy bastard shouting into the trench . |
| 6 | I , I maybe fall asleep for maybe an hour or two and then I 'm woken and I 'm coughing all the time . |
| 7 | The 100 Group appreciates this and would be grateful for even a small gesture in the Budget , ‘ maybe with some indication that there could be more to come later' , Mr Lawrence suggests . |
| 8 | HaL Computer Systems Inc , Campbell , California , remains one of the most difficult companies to ferret information out of so we 're grateful for even a glimmer of intelligence . |
| 9 | These had been kept intact for almost a century by Louisa Greenough Powers Ibbotson and her descendants . |
| 10 | Paula had been dry for almost a year before the taxi fracas . |
| 11 | Taking everything into consideration , the 1993 Coca Cola North West 200 — which is the 64th of the series — must be the most open and potentially exciting for quite a number of years . |
| 12 | The lucky ones have found jobs , of course , but many others have now been unemployed for over a year — or even two years in a significant number of cases . |
| 13 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |
| 14 | They had been free for nearly a month . |
| 15 | Some of them have been empty for the 20 years since they were built , others have been empty for just a few years . |
| 16 | The bungalow , in a pretty Worcestershire village , has been empty for nearly a year . |
| 17 | At the official press conference today , Brian Horton said he 'd been looking at the young twenty-one year old for quite a while . |
| 18 | But when morning came , bright and clear with only a slight breeze , it arrived alone . |
| 19 | What 's wrong with just a title , science or |
| 20 | This wine was light and fresh with quite a sharp dry taste , but not bad for the price . |
| 21 | As with all water fowl the female is less flamboyant than its partner and the duck is sooty brown with only a hint of a crest . |
| 22 | The simple go/no-go transistor tester described in April 's EE seems to have been popular with quite a few of our readers and several of you have written with specific queries concerning the circuit used . |
| 23 | To Miss Taylor he was gently charming with just a hint of flirtatiousness in his manner . |
| 24 | A member is different from both a shareholder and a principal . |
| 25 | ‘ I was interested in how a mind works that is as analytical and calculating as his seems to be . ’ |
| 26 | You 're no more interested in how a programme is put together than you are in flying to the moon ! ’ |
| 27 | The evidence suggests that they are often indifferent to their educational attainment and are interested in only a narrow range of basic skills or in traditional education for the ‘ high-fliers ’ . |
| 28 | Candidates must apply to HCIMA three months before the date of the examination and must obtain , from the centre where they are enrolled , a signed letter stating that the centre is prepared to forward an examination paper to HCIMA . |
| 29 | Erm what I would ask the panel to look at first of all is the fact that the erm the proposals for I five and I twelve appear to be largely acceptable over quite a large area of the the county . |
| 30 | Research on visual memory , moreover , shows that recognition of pictures , after one quite short exposure , is normally very high over quite a long period . |