Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun pl] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scheme relies on private money — in this case a donation of a thousand pounds from BT . |
| 2 | But it was n't until Koussevitzky offered a commission of a thousand dollars from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation that Ben was seriously able to contemplate setting aside all the time that is required to write a full-scale opera . |
| 3 | Germany has in the past year alone accepted some quarter of a million refugees from the former Yugoslavia . |
| 4 | A yearly budget of a million pounds from the cigarette company make Fusil 's dream for an annual multi-discipline event in the most beautiful corners of the world come true . |
| 5 | In 1838 he inherited a fortune of a million pounds from his uncle , Robert Holford . |
| 6 | Altogether , therefore , over a quarter of a million candidates from over 800 centres became involved with SCOTVEC at a variety of levels during the session . |
| 7 | However , there was a delay of a few minutes from the start of the experiment before the chicks ate their first camouflaged rice grains . |
| 8 | It was in a sad little side street — one of a few survivors from the era of terraced housing before the sprawling council estate was built in the fifties . |
| 9 | DDT and PCB levels in the blubber of a few porpoises from eastern Scotland analysed in 1967 were considerably higher than in seals from the same area . |
| 10 | Seismic data were returned to Earth over a period of a few years from these five stations , though they were reduced to four when the Apollo 11 station stopped working . |
| 11 | Journalists must be told that this is a speculative lunch with only a small information content and that the general intent is to discuss the subject in broad terms with the injection of a few ideas from the PROs . |
| 12 | When it seemed that the sound and whatever it emanated from was about to overwhelm us , the engine and coaches of an express train appeared in the left-hand window and whizzed past a few feet from the front bumper . |
| 13 | Erm that might , might interest you to know that during the past ten years I have personally entertained something like a hundred visitors from the States who are with their families er , of course , er returned here for a look , look round . |
| 14 | There was still a good deal to be done : studying the local map , persuading a naval man to lend me his dark blue trousers , and buying a filthy cap for a hundred cigarettes from a Pole working in the washroom . |
| 15 | Except for a few letters from Helen to Jane Aldis , there is nothing until January 1897 . |
| 16 | They both were astonished that so far no indication of trouble had come from the town common ; but reckoned that it would not be long now before it did , for a few escapers from the castle had been glimpsed running in that direction . |
| 17 | ‘ If you were happy together , why should she mind about a few snubs from social snobs who barred you from their visiting-lists for such a reason ? |
| 18 | Ron Wood invited Buddy to stay on stage for his own short set and then Gary Moore strode on once again , his keyboard player teasing the audience with a few notes from the Stone 's classic Satisfaction , hinting at what was to come . |
| 19 | On Friday night Alan had met his project deadline , and spent the evening in the pub , celebrating with a few others from his course . |
| 20 | The 80R is essentially a twin channel , 80 watt amplifier with a few departures from the norm that are all its own . |
| 21 | Only after that , and with a few facts from your GP , plus half a page on your stresses during the last five years — I had to overflow onto the back of my page and with a little encouragement could easily have made it a 100,000 words — can you go through the eye of the needle . |
| 22 | After the season the show would tour the country with a few troupes from the original cast and local children appearing in the large scenes . |
| 23 | The children are left out on the plains with a few goats from a very young age . |
| 24 | Occasionally Ella took the train to town with a portfolio of hand-blocked patterns , and usually she returned , blown but jubilant , with a few orders from firms who appreciated her strong shades of olive green , dull beetroot and dirty yellow madly ensnared in black mesh . |
| 25 | People going with a few items from their attic . |
| 26 | Red-faced and embarrassed , Mr Aird cleared his throat and launched into a few bars from Jean Sibelius Finlandia . |
| 27 | Shirley was a good runner , and she caught Heather up a few yards from the fire . |
| 28 | In a similar line of argument , Reynolds 's Newspaper ( 14 August 1898 ) viewed the Hooligan panic as an indictment of the hypocrisy of a civilisation that took ‘ so painful an interest about moral handkerchiefs and hymn books for the barbarians of the wild Soudan ’ while turning a blind eye towards ‘ the far wilder barbarians they may find within a few paces from their own street-doors ’ . |
| 29 | Certainly , the change within a few months from the Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes to the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union suggests great confusion of purpose . |
| 30 | The administration of the Famine was remarkable for the absence of nearly all leading Bolsheviks , apart from a few speeches from one or two of them . |