Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] [det] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would describe the Apache 's stall as less dramatic than many a light single-engine trainer . |
| 2 | Apart from the holiday in Italy , they had not spent a whole night together more than half a dozen times in two years , and never at her home ; always when they could find excuses for them both to be in other cities . |
| 3 | It is therefore highly uncertain when such a currency will be created and which countries it will cover . |
| 4 | Quakers , evangelicals inside and outside the Church of England and Rational Dissenters and Unitarians all articulated a powerful abolitionist and emancipationist appeal over more than half a century . |
| 5 | One would guess not more than half a dozen in the average parish , often fewer than that . |
| 6 | I had been dealing in coke to a very small circle of friends , not more than half a dozen . |
| 7 | Similarly , most villages today do not qualify by these standards — most are suburban or retirement centres , not more than half a dozen practise communal agriculture , and most do not even have working farms in them . |
| 8 | Maybe not more than half a dozen in in fact , I remember only four I think , the lat one I was at . |
| 9 | However , in keeping with the somewhat critical approach adopted in Chapter 1 , and because we also wish to indicate how our studies might be put upon a set-theoretical base ( the soundness of which is the concern of set-theorists ) we propose definitions rather more formal than many a reader might expect . |
| 10 | This , however , is rarely feasible because such a class is generally too fraction-ridden to ‘ realise its political unity on the basis of a politically conceived common interest ’ . |
| 11 | Libraries in the college sector usually have very small professional staff complements ( often just one or two , and only exceptionally more than half a dozen ) , which do not allow library management on a subject specialization basis . |
| 12 | In considering what capacity for use the land has , relevant factors are the physical state of the land , its size , shape and surroundings , and the general patterns of land-uses in the area ; a use of relatively low value may be regarded as reasonably beneficial if such a use is common for similar land in the vicinity . ’ |
| 13 | A typical value might be eight bytes , leading to an index size of rather more than half a track ( the number of entries in the index depends on the number of tracks or buckets , while the size of the track depends on the device ) . |
| 14 | It is said to have been the biggest women 's gathering since suffrage days , a little more than half a century before … |
| 15 | A little more than half a mile away , on the other side of the Isle of Dogs , Ebenezer 's sister Ruth was also awake . |
| 16 | Sometime in the not-so-distant geological past , perhaps as little as half a million years ago , it was joined to the great land mass to the north . |
| 17 | Is it surprising that against a background as inchoate as this a new and virile movement should have arisen , central to whose belief is the power and reality of the Holy Spirit ? |
| 18 | His face changed because his brother Stair was one of the party , escorting the young heiress to a beer barony in Milwaukee , which was as much as such a penniless man as himself could aspire to , especially as his title was a mere baronetcy . |
| 19 | Despite opposition to their plans from many independent experts , the commission says the angle is likely to be reduced by as much as half a degree within the two years . |
| 20 | It 's not a bad idea to make sure you change larger notes before you return from your holiday since — depending on where you 've been — you may lose out by as much as half a per cent on an exchange rate . |
| 21 | The total bill may be as much as half a million pounds . |
| 22 | He could he was a brilliant machinist and er oh crikey I 've seen him turn out a a three throw er crankshaft within a couple of days er you know without any precise measuring and and and in fact he just sort of put his roll on on on a on the shaft he was turning and just sort of gave him an idea as to I mean his eye was almost as good as many a bloke 's measur measurement with a rule . |
| 23 | In Great Britain 50,000 people use sign language as their main language , but as many as half a million people may be hearing impaired . |
| 24 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 25 | One burrow may eventually contain as many as half a dozen of these paralysed prisoners , each doomed in due course to be eaten alive by the wasp grub that hatches upon it . |
| 26 | A group of them , maybe as many as half a dozen , will slowly get to their feet from where they have been lying with the rest of the pride and , leaving the cubs and the males behind , walk off in a fashion which , although leisurely , has a grimly purposeful air . |
| 27 | You may even want to produce the sort of book that is popular in America , the police procedural concerned with as many as half a dozen different crimes investigated by as many officers linked to each other only by working out of the same squad room . |
| 28 | Sometimes there were only a couple of men ‘ up on the mountain' ; sometimes there were as many as half a dozen sheltering under the wall . |
| 29 | Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century . |
| 30 | By 1415 he showed himself willing to accept a good deal less : he would settle for the legal and territorial terms agreed at Brétigny , now more than half a century earlier , and a smaller dowry . |