Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , self-build schemes are really possible only where a number of energetic persons , usually young , coincide . |
| 2 | The appeal lies only where a point of law is involved . |
| 3 | She looked up suddenly where a shower of blossom swirled from the cherry-boughs . |
| 4 | One might focus particular attention on stress points in the day , perhaps where a mismatch of perception between individuals or even outright conflict occurred . |
| 5 | It would occupy a fairly modest 2U of rack space , larger perhaps than a couple of its contemporaries , but it has the advantage of a distinctly uncluttered look about it . |
| 6 | In comparison , she herself would look little better than a sack of potatoes on horseback . |
| 7 | A forty-year-old today looks a lot better than a forty-year-old of twenty years ago . ’ . |
| 8 | Better than a view of cardboard panes and the next-door privies . |
| 9 | Manager Chris Winter said : ‘ I think we 're doing better than a lot of other shops because customers can spend as little as £2 on a gift . |
| 10 | Er so I mean they were in use more or less all the time but er it was it was n't , it was n't too bad , better than a lot of hospitals had . |
| 11 | But what had been no more than a slowly moving stream less than a couple of metres wide now flowed fast and dark with mud across the full thirty metres of the riverbed . |
| 12 | A third of the people who were successful in stopping , did n't gain weight or gained less than a couple of pounds . |
| 13 | the motive was to steal scrap metal from the company the amount of metal would have been less than a couple of hundred pounds so quite a minor incident in itself . |
| 14 | In a sector where the income from sales of tickets represented less than a quarter of total expenditure , there was little else one could expect . |
| 15 | The books are quite short ( about 40,000 words , less than a quarter of the text of this present volume ) , but each has about 150 drawings and pictures . |
| 16 | The amount of fat we actually need is staggeringly low at 5 grams ( less than a quarter of an ounce ) per day , providing it contains the right kind of fatty acids . |
| 17 | Fremont , California-based Everex Systems Inc cut its workforce by another 150 people , 25% to 500 , less than a quarter of its size 15 months ago . |
| 18 | Coventry Cathedral Priory declared possessions worth £500 , but its debts left it £52 in the red ; similarly its net income was less than a quarter of the gross . |
| 19 | Thus the total revenue from direct taxes in Edward 's reign , up to 1551 , was only about £300,000 , less than a quarter of the cost of the war . |
| 20 | With each generation of computer technology , the physical space taken up by the electronic components has become smaller and smaller , until with the introduction of large-scale integration ( LSI ) it became possible to fit thousands of components onto a silicon chip less than a quarter of an inch square . |
| 21 | In a renovated Georgian terrace house less than a quarter of a mile from the Civic Centre , actors , actresses , arts officers , leisure officers , artists-in-residence , playwright-in-residence , and a visiting jazz musician gathered together to laugh , to sing , to eat spinach salad and green bean salad and mackerel pate and wholemeal bread and curried brown rice : they played games , word games , charades , quotation games . |
| 22 | Once in the UK , less than a quarter of legally imported waste is incinerated . |
| 23 | The body was found in the playing field of Pittville School in Cheltenham , less than a quarter of a mile from the Gold Cup racecourse . |
| 24 | His income was less than a half of what it had been before 1914 , and lie was losing capital too . |
| 25 | Compelled less than a whiff of ghostly oxygen |
| 26 | A momentum will be found only if a state of tension is created for the participants to provide a dynamic to the action . |
| 27 | In one text Paul appears to be of the same view ; but in another Papinian takes the opposite line , on the basis that the testator had in mind not that payment should be made only if a condition of surviving to a certain age was met , but that payment should be deferred to that point in time . |
| 28 | A single currency may come into being in 1997 , but only if a minimum of seven countries meet the convergence conditions , and eight of the Twelve vote in favour . |
| 29 | The Court of Appeal held that because the principle of effective protection only required that national courts should provide remedies for the protection of European rights which were as effective as the remedies available for the protection of similar rights in English law ; and since a plaintiff can recover damages against governmental bodies in English law only if a breach of private law can be shown ; and since the challenged action would not be actionable in tort in English law ; it followed that the principle of effective protection did not require that damages be available to the plaintiff as a remedy . |
| 30 | There is now a substantial body of evidence that the expression of gluten hypersensitivity as enteropathy may be minimal , measurable only if a count of intraepithelial lymphocytes is performed . |