Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun pl] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | staining first appears in r3 ( a ) and after a few hours is joined by staining in r5 ( b ) . |
| 2 | These lovely plants may take time to form large flowering clumps but after a few years are a sight to behold and are worth every bit of effort you expend . |
| 3 | Carl moved into agency at NEMS in the late 1970s and after a few years was instrumental in the formation of the PAN agency . |
| 4 | I was lucky to get a job at Highgate , and after a few years was able tor educe my teaching to three days a week . |
| 5 | It grew rapidly , and after a few seconds was the tiny bright shape of a man . |
| 6 | The use of a mouse with its linked screen pointer to select programs , copy disks and carry out any of a thousand functions is now part and parcel of everyday computer life . |
| 7 | I tried to keep his words in the front of my mind , particularly during the bad times when we were clearing everything out and the dust and debris of a hundred years was falling into our eyes . |
| 8 | A quarter of a million pounds is worth waiting for . ’ |
| 9 | My Lords , will the er Minister say how much money has been spent on the so called cash protection for grant maintained schools and will she confirm that the one quarter of a million pounds almost a quarter of a million pounds being spent on advertising grant maintained schools is additional er to the scheme , to the first part of the question . |
| 10 | Among the three-quarters of a million evacuees was one , whom I remember only as Ron , and who was drafted to my uncle 's home . |
| 11 | Over a quarter of a million tons were supplied for London Bridge . |
| 12 | The 40-acre iron works was demolished just after the war and threequarters of a million bricks were reclaimed , but their legacy lingered on with Slag Tip Corner by the notoriously low railway bridge . |
| 13 | By the mid 1930s , up to a quarter of a million dolphins were being killed each year by Turkish , Bulgarian , Romanian , and Russian hunters . |
| 14 | Now this spread of a uniform facies is remarkable enough , but it must also be remembered that chalk is a very unusual sediment : an extremely pure coccolith limestone which is almost unique in the stratigraphical column . |
| 15 | The major attraction of a fully-fledged GIS is that it gives access to large volumes of cartographic and attribute data which can be manipulated according to the needs of the user and the flexibility of the system software . |
| 16 | The big hook which had once been part of a hanging scales was in the shape of the letter S , and sharpened to a point at both ends . |
| 17 | Further , even when the virtue of a feminine personae is not questioned ( as in the case of Belgae or Eirena ) , the rule of a woman is shown to be insufficient to combat the irreligious evil which had gained control of their land . |
| 18 | On the whole they are not , but the seasonal productivity of a few areas is very high , and subpolar seas include some of the richest patches of ocean known anywhere in the world . |
| 19 | These days he had trouble recalling the troublesome fragments of his education he had bothered to memorize in the first place ; the names of a few acquaintances were jumbled together with old verb forms and things he thought were childhood haunts turned out to be places he had only just discovered . |
| 20 | It is probably significant that our own body size of a few feet is roughly in the middle of the range of sizes we can imagine . |
| 21 | Certainly the popular press fuelled doubt , focusing as it did upon particular schools which were in temporary disarray , and the failure of a few teachers was applied indiscriminately to the whole workforce . |
| 22 | And our own lifetime of a few decades is roughly in the middle of the range of times we can imagine . |
| 23 | Optimization of a few parameters is not what people think of , when they speak of learning . |
| 24 | A family who are believed to have raided five jewellers ' shops in the space of a few weeks are being hunted by police . |
| 25 | Work-shadowing , whereby a student follows a business person during her normal work routines over a period of a few weeks is becoming increasingly commonplace in the UK . |
| 26 | What they 've done in a matter of a few weeks is put together a data bank of information that 's colossal , and they 're dealing with an enormous amount of , of distress and problems . |
| 27 | The remains of a few victims were taken to a makeshift mortuary in a hangar at Schiphol . |
| 28 | The only way to test these predictions in the space of a few years is to observe a sufficient number of protons and see if a few decay . |
| 29 | ( A Mrs. Furness , for example , ‘ was last night seized with vertigo and other symptoms of congestion of the head which by the immediate application of a dozen leeches was presently relieved … ’ ) . |
| 30 | This collection of a dozen essays is offered to mark the occasion , to advertise the vigour and diversity of current research , and to encourage informed admiration and appreciation of the music . |