Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worcester finished on 184 for eight before a torrential thunderstorm washed out the last 90 minutes play . |
| 2 | We see no reason why the word should seem strange for more than a short time . |
| 3 | ‘ I doubt if Aldhelm would have lain helpless for more than a quarter of an hour from that blow on the head . |
| 4 | Hardly enough to keep a man alive for more than a month or two . |
| 5 | Turkish diplomats say they 're hopeful the couple will be freed unharmed after more than a week in captivity . |
| 6 | To be able just to walk , or drive , wherever you want ; Christ , I 've been away from all this for less than a week and I feel like somebody coming out after thirty years . |
| 7 | Over-50s are excluded from the two groups to whom resources are directed : 18-to-24 year olds who have been unemployed for at least six months ; and 25-to-50 year olds unemployed for more than a year . |
| 8 | There is a great deal of prejudice about age , with the result that the older you are the more likely you are to remain unemployed for more than a year . |
| 9 | In April 1972 , the proportion unemployed for more than a year accounted for one-sixth of the total unemployed ; by April 1981 , the proportion had risen to one-fifth . |
| 10 | Since 1950 the number of those unemployed for more than a year has increased from 34,000 to more than a million at the start of this year . |
| 11 | THE NUMBER of people unemployed for more than a year passed the one million mark yesterday . |
| 12 | Moreover , in July 1991 unemployment benefit was to be abolished and replaced by a short-term " job search " allowance and a " new-start " allowance for those unemployed for longer than a year . |
| 13 | There are 5,733 empty council houses , almost 2,000 of which have been empty for more than a year . |
| 14 | We shall continue to put pressure on local authorities with stock that has been empty for more than a year . |
| 15 | He rightly points out that — apart from Brent , which has no overall control , and Tower Hamlets , which is controlled by the Liberal Democrats — the 10 authorities with the highest percentage of empties in their stock are Labour controlled , and about 20,000 properties have been left empty for more than a year . |
| 16 | Quinn said : ‘ I 'm not interested in more than a month on loan here . |
| 17 | The writing of a biography is simply impossible for more than a few major churchmen and even fewer secular rulers in the early Middle Ages . |
| 18 | The future and prosperity of the north-west are best served by a Government who are determined to keep inflation down , who want to keep taxes down — and will not let interest rates rise as the Opposition would — and who recognise that the level of strikes is at its lowest for more than a century . |
| 19 | Also , the program has knowledge of qualitative physical principles relevant to its actual tasks , such as that if an object sticks out too far it will fall , and that it will pivot around the support point nearest to the centre of gravity . |
| 20 | The Soviet Union has now been a socialist state for more than sixty years : many countries in Western Europe have been socialist for more than a quarter century ; and Asia has not only the Chinese experiment in socialism but other countries in Asia , Africa and the Americas have experimented with socialism . |
| 21 | TOWARDS the end of her life my mother was in hospital , a victim of Alzheimer 's Disease , a severe diabetic , unable to walk and increasingly unable to remain conscious for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 22 | It 's been women-only for more than a century . |
| 23 | Moreover , the nature of sickness benefit from the state and from many employers means that people who are off work ill for less than a few months may not be worse off financially , anyway . |
| 24 | No molecule of our body survives unchanged for more than a few weeks or months ; over that period , even in adults , it is synthesized , plays its part in the cellular economy , and is then discarded , broken down and replaced by another more or less identical . |
| 25 | If Helen Dobson 's achievement in doing the double of British Match and Stroke-Play titles detracted from everything else , on performance worthy of more than a passing mention was a final day for Julie Hall which took in rounds of 69 and 71 . |
| 26 | Hair is shiny and sophisticated with more than a touch of class ! |
| 27 | Not all of them : a black middle class has mushroomed , from about one in ten blacks in 1960 to more than a third today . |
| 28 | Thirdly , the idea of the European countryside , valuable to many as a source of beauty , history , and national pride would also be transformed . |
| 29 | Most women had been brought up to do sewing and dressmaking : it was no accident , nor was it a question of " natural aptitude " that a teenage girl entering the composing-room was likely to be more dexterous at first than a boy , and to apply both the physical and mental habits acquired in sewing to the job in hand . |
| 30 | The moral vocabulary of these accusations against sentimentality , leniency and crinolined philanthropy that unfolded in the wake of the great legislative transformations of this era is one which we would find entirely familiar in our own historical time , and which has rolled down to us virtually unchanged across more than a century of resistance to penal reform . |