Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house was in need of total renovation and would not be habitable for nearly a year , but the Ashleys moved into a hotel in Le Touquet from where they hoped to oversee the extensive repairs to the exterior and interior . |
| 2 | oh you it 's due for about a bit more then |
| 3 | According to Hearn the WPBSA intends to take only 16 players for a week to its overseas events instead of 32 for nearly a fortnight . |
| 4 | Present economic theory in fact says very little about how a market containing such imperfections would operate . |
| 5 | I , I maybe fall asleep for maybe an hour or two and then I 'm woken and I 'm coughing all the time . |
| 6 | HaL Computer Systems Inc , Campbell , California , remains one of the most difficult companies to ferret information out of so we 're grateful for even a glimmer of intelligence . |
| 7 | These had been kept intact for almost a century by Louisa Greenough Powers Ibbotson and her descendants . |
| 8 | And have you been taking that for quite a while ? |
| 9 | And I carried on doing that for quite a number of years and I managed to be voted onto the Edinburgh committee . |
| 10 | And er we were on that for about an hour or so and then they got rid of the the badly injured were taken off then and put on the Therris it 's support vessel that was Just happened to be there at the time . |
| 11 | Paula had been dry for almost a year before the taxi fracas . |
| 12 | Ploughing through this for almost an hour brought us well into the hillside and at length to where the rail bed rose out of the water and into the old engine room . |
| 13 | ‘ This is the first time we 've had ones like this for quite a while . ’ |
| 14 | We remained like this for about a quarter of a minute . |
| 15 | Taking everything into consideration , the 1993 Coca Cola North West 200 — which is the 64th of the series — must be the most open and potentially exciting for quite a number of years . |
| 16 | The lucky ones have found jobs , of course , but many others have now been unemployed for over a year — or even two years in a significant number of cases . |
| 17 | They had been free for nearly a month . |
| 18 | His vital interest was exploring the countryside with his school friend Arthur Hardy , as he records it in A Sportsman 's Tale : ‘ We had spent the best ten years of life together and after that saw one another about twice a year … |
| 19 | The bungalow , in a pretty Worcestershire village , has been empty for nearly a year . |
| 20 | At the official press conference today , Brian Horton said he 'd been looking at the young twenty-one year old for quite a while . |
| 21 | It is clear that prophecy was part of the experience of the people of God in the Bible ( see Numbers 11:20,1 Samuel 19:20 , Joel 2:28 , Acts 2:18 ; 15:22 ; 19:6 ; 21:9 , 1 Corinthians 11:4–5 ; 12:28 ; 14:1 and 24 , Ephesians 4:11,1 Thessalonians 5:20 for just a sample of instances ) . |
| 22 | What 's wrong with just a title , science or |
| 23 | As with all water fowl the female is less flamboyant than its partner and the duck is sooty brown with only a hint of a crest . |
| 24 | To Miss Taylor he was gently charming with just a hint of flirtatiousness in his manner . |
| 25 | A member is different from both a shareholder and a principal . |
| 26 | All over the country , sports , arts and adult education centres offer activities for under-fives , some from under a year old . |
| 27 | ‘ I was interested in how a mind works that is as analytical and calculating as his seems to be . ’ |
| 28 | You 're no more interested in how a programme is put together than you are in flying to the moon ! ’ |
| 29 | Two birdbaths have been stolen from addresses in Darlington , one from a garden in Esk Road and another from outside a house in Prior Street . |
| 30 | Birdbath theft : Two birdbaths have been stolen from addresses in Darlington , one was taken from a garden in Esk Road and another from outside a house in Prior Street . |