Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advisory teacher and Betty disagreed in their views about how a task might be presented . |
| 2 | There is therefore opportunity for only a trickle of legislation from this source and , for reasons stated below , even less than that flows . |
| 3 | It seems that he was content to stay as a house guest of Sir John Popham for quite a while , though it has been suggested he was thrown into a debtor 's prison shortly after the event . |
| 4 | Let's continue the story for just a moment in a ridiculous way . |
| 5 | Moszkowicz added : ‘ I served on the Darlington board for about a year because I misread Football League rules . |
| 6 | ‘ He was Rainer Schickert for only a year and a few months — and mostly in hiding . |
| 7 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 8 | If the right hon. Gentleman would study recent CBI surveys he would see that domestic and export orders are rising , that export orders are at their highest level for over a year and that there is confirmation that business conditions are beginning to improve in line with confidence . |
| 9 | Unemployment has fallen to its lowest level for almost a year . |
| 10 | ‘ She said she had been locked in a flat in Moston for about a week and had been injected with drugs during that time . |
| 11 | She hesitated for a moment before adding in a lowered voice , ‘ She 's known Philippe for quite a while , but I do n't think she ever realised … ’ |
| 12 | Yet from 10.15p.m. the line bites began and bream had been rolling steadily along the familiar route for almost an hour . |
| 13 | At the end of July and beginning of August a group of six Drouot experts , headed by the president of the company Joël-Marie Millon , were in Moscow for almost a week offering free estimates to the Muscovites on their works of art , antiques and jewellery . |
| 14 | Jack walked through the quiet roads for almost an hour before he came to the bottom of Monument Hill . |
| 15 | For example , in ascertaining the image of a book on a distant plane , he adopted a procedure familiar to artists for almost a century . |
| 16 | I 've been into this look for quite a while now , I know the rules . |
| 17 | And of course for quite a while we were from . |
| 18 | Encore has been shipping Multimax superminis for over a year and has now sold ( and shipped ) two to the OSF 's development lab in Boston . |
| 19 | Bruce added : ‘ Things had n't been going well with Phonogram for quite a while . |
| 20 | I am fourteen years old and I have been keeping fancy Goldfish for about a year now . |
| 21 | Apart from the doctor and his wife and Giles Carnaby they were all people from the village who had not had an opportunity for a good look at the inside of Greystones for quite a while and were busy taking note . |
| 22 | A specialist in seventeenth-century Dutch art , he taught at Columbia University for nearly a decade . |
| 23 | I come from Holland and in Amsterdam toy robots ( especially Japanese ones and deleted ones from Holland ) have been accessories for over a year now . |
| 24 | The suspension of Mrs Kemp for over a year with no reasons being given by the local authority , caused grave misgivings in Orkney . |
| 25 | I 've just given the whole of life a miss for nearly a year , all because of bloody Adrian . |
| 26 | I 've been working with the deaf-aid for over a week , for God 's sake , and I realised how much I rely on it . |
| 27 | Hong Kong has been hanging in suspense for almost a fortnight over if Mr Patten would drop a self-imposed deadline for publication at the end of February so that talks with China could resume . |
| 28 | Even work experience for just a fortnight — such as an Earthwatch project — is worthwhile . |
| 29 | He had been a share salesman for just a week and a half , and the deal put £200 in his pocket . |
| 30 | MANSUR MUHAMMAD AHMED RAJIH : a 34-year-old writer and poet , he was held without charge or trial for over a year before being sentenced to death in 1984 after an unfair trial on false criminal charges . |