Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all these advanced cases only a pair finally incubate , brood , and feed the young . |
| 2 | For example , the early years of the decade saw numerous freight-only branches close because in most cases only a handful of wagonload traffic was being conveyed — uneconomically . |
| 3 | It is suggested , therefore , that the husband 's solicitors should submit to the wife 's solicitors merely a copy of the last conveyance , together with a copy of any mortgage affecting the property and memoranda of any " sales-off " or other documents affecting the legal title . |
| 4 | This involves not only reflecting on why certain types of behaviours are defined as criminal in some historical periods and not others , but also why a particular criminal law comes to incorporate from relatively homogeneous behaviour patterns only a portion and exclude the remainder , even though each and every instance of this behaviour causes avoidable harm , injury , or deprivation . |
| 5 | When I auditioned with Mike , he gave me a list of twenty-five songs to work on and I thought I had to learn them all in five days , because we were starting rehearsals only a week later ! |
| 6 | Pike have very sharp teeth so a wire trace has to be used to stop pike biting through the nylon . |
| 7 | He had feared for the project 's viability , particularly after it became more widely known that the old lady was to be put through her paces only a matter of days later and just a few miles down the road on the steeply graded Bodmin & Wenford Railway . |
| 8 | Crosby 's side were relegation candidates only a month ago and the Roker boss was everybody 's tip for the axe . |
| 9 | She knew that he was not going to like her question , might well accuse her of all sorts of things , not least acting like a jealous wife instead of a woman on whom he had clapped eyes only a matter of a few days before . |
| 10 | Highly readable chapters on a variety of sportsmen by an American-born who strung three outstanding cricket books together a decade ago . |
| 11 | This is partly because it began trying to sell to government schools only a year ago , and partly because it would prefer not to give its machines away . |
| 12 | Campbell 's survey of London trades in 1747 lists only a handful of female crafts all paid wages well below male trades . |
| 13 | Thus Marx 's model of historical development was in many respects only a sketch which left many problems unresolved . |
| 14 | I said , widening my eyes just a touch . |
| 15 | Council officers told yesterday 's Darlington works and health committee they would continue to visit shops once a month collecting evidence with a view to prosecution . |
| 16 | But no one who thought so would treat the suggestion as an argument that the king can now , as the rules stand , move two steps once a game . |
| 17 | Instead of plays being acted by the city craftsmen once a year , we 've made a craft of play-acting . |
| 18 | One organisation , which faced a marked seasonal demand for its output and made substantial hirings once a year , reserved its temporary vacancies for school leavers . |
| 19 | Over the last few months hardly a day had gone by without his name being mentioned in the financial Press , the articles mainly commenting on the swift , ferocious manner in which he was carving his way through the City , ruthlessly gobbling up one company after another . |
| 20 | The experimental programme involved group sessions once a week with a maximum of 16 patients in a group . |
| 21 | Nearly a quarter of men clean out their cars once a month whereas nearly three in four women do it less frequently . |
| 22 | While a quarter of men wash their cars once a week , fewer than one in five women carry out the chore . |
| 23 | You do n't just put a two page report in and it 's resolved it 's probably a three month project that you need to go continuously once a week to a trial meeting or or three months once a week to a two hour meeting . |
| 24 | A few months later a shuttle carried Jaq up to a great black ship circling in orbit . |
| 25 | Six months later a Treaty was signed in London which led to the setting up of a 26-county Free State . |
| 26 | Seven or eight months later a customer booked a holiday , relying on an old unamended copy of the brochure . |
| 27 | A few months later a man living in Herne Bay in Kent found a live earthworm in his garden after a rainstorm . |
| 28 | Five months later a device exploded in the Macdonalds restsurant in the town . |
| 29 | Some months later a colleague and I were returning to London from a meeting in Brussels . |
| 30 | Leave was refused at first instance and in the Court of Appeal , though a few months later a Practice Direction ( [ 1986 ] 2 All ER 226 ) was issued indicating the collective view of the judges that solicitors should be permitted to appear in the High Court or Court of Appeal in formal or unopposed proceedings . |