Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the early years of the decade saw numerous freight-only branches close because in most cases only a handful of wagonload traffic was being conveyed — uneconomically . |
| 2 | All the while long lines of lorries trundled along the streets as if it was 1945 and the retreating Wehrmacht only a couple of miles away . |
| 3 | In order to allow the experiment to be completed by subjects in one hour only a subset of the original films from Studies 2 and 3 were used . |
| 4 | It is suggested , therefore , that the husband 's solicitors should submit to the wife 's solicitors merely a copy of the last conveyance , together with a copy of any mortgage affecting the property and memoranda of any " sales-off " or other documents affecting the legal title . |
| 5 | In the 1987 United Kingdom general election only a handful of very small parties that were genuinely political fielded candidates . |
| 6 | It is of course only a question of time and evolution . |
| 7 | Strombolian activity , then , is a bit noisier than Hawaiian , but it 's still not particularly dangerous — there are two villages on Stromboli only a couple of kilometres from the ever-active vent , and the inhabitants rarely have cause to worry about whether they will live to see the sun rise on another day , or on another boatload of visitors coming across to look at the volcano . |
| 8 | If I now consider an event of a moment ago , my idle contemplation of the cup on my table , and attempt to subtract from my present conception only a part of it-the subject within the event of a moment ago-and to hang on to the remainder , I am in fact left with something other than the content of the event . |
| 9 | The scales suggest the scales of a fish rather than armour ; was the priest perhaps a priest of Poteidan ? |
| 10 | The Welshmen , crouching low and running like hares , overtook the two who led the laden horse only a matter of minutes before they were themselves overtaken . |
| 11 | He had feared for the project 's viability , particularly after it became more widely known that the old lady was to be put through her paces only a matter of days later and just a few miles down the road on the steeply graded Bodmin & Wenford Railway . |
| 12 | She knew that he was not going to like her question , might well accuse her of all sorts of things , not least acting like a jealous wife instead of a woman on whom he had clapped eyes only a matter of a few days before . |
| 13 | Most unfortunate , had been in action only a couple of hours . |
| 14 | Campbell 's survey of London trades in 1747 lists only a handful of female crafts all paid wages well below male trades . |
| 15 | The doubt may be a result of forgetting , but is the remedy only a matter of remembering ? |
| 16 | Or is the current wave of hooliganism in British football merely a continuation of old traditions , which we now are less willing to tolerate and more anxious to report ? |
| 17 | Alina scrambled up alongside , and found herself a rock just a couple of feet lower than his own . |
| 18 | Is the problem of losing weight just a question of vanity for most of us or a medical necessity ? |
| 19 | Technology is partly to blame : celluloid prints have been superseded by the smooth replications of digital imaging , and for modern Hollywood , as for the music biz , there is no such thing as the original cut just a series of alternative ‘ takes ’ or mixes . |
| 20 | Wick waits , remembering the herring more recently ; the lovely old buildings stare blankly over the vast harbour once a forest of masts . |
| 21 | We got the telephone number of Ontos Uk Ltd , Richmond , Surrey wrong a couple of weeks ago , its +44 81 332 7245 . |
| 22 | This process of interaction is for Marx and Engels both a source of conceptualization and also of a sort of natural religion , at least in the earlier stages of evolution . |
| 23 | In the TIMI 2B study about a quarter of the patients assigned to conservative strategy required angiography and further intervention . |
| 24 | In this study about a quarter of patients had a biopsy for a sole haematological abnormality . |
| 25 | Some months ago a gang of local youngsters asked if I could help them in this direction . |
| 26 | They took command late in the game , and a heroic display by Paul Mathers was needed to give his side even a share of the points . |
| 27 | They took command late in the game , and a heroic display by Paul Mathers was needed to give his side even a share of the points . |
| 28 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 29 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 30 | He successfully invaded Sudan to the south in 1820 , making it effectively a colony , and in some eyes even a part of Egypt . |