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 | 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 . |
| 5 | These had been kept intact for almost a century by Louisa Greenough Powers Ibbotson and her descendants . |
| 6 | And have you been taking that for quite a while ? |
| 7 | And I carried on doing that for quite a number of years and I managed to be voted onto the Edinburgh committee . |
| 8 | Paula had been dry for almost a year before the taxi fracas . |
| 9 | ‘ This is the first time we 've had ones like this for quite a while . ’ |
| 10 | We remained like this for about a quarter of a minute . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They had been free for nearly a month . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | The bungalow , in a pretty Worcestershire village , has been empty for nearly a year . |
| 16 | At the official press conference today , Brian Horton said he 'd been looking at the young twenty-one year old for quite a while . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | What 's wrong with just a title , science or |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | To Miss Taylor he was gently charming with just a hint of flirtatiousness in his manner . |
| 21 | A member is different from both a shareholder and a principal . |
| 22 | All over the country , sports , arts and adult education centres offer activities for under-fives , some from under a year old . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The number of visits clients received ranged from daily to once a month . |
| 27 | Often the family is disrupted by a split during the sportsman 's upbringing , as in the case of footballer Lennox Smith , who , when aged 16 , had to undergo the turbulence of his father 's leaving ( his case is representative of about a quarter of the black sportsmen I encountered ) . |
| 28 | One , which includes mosaics of the more specific trend , features many neatly executed arrangements from each of only a handful of sites . |
| 29 | That would have kept her warm for quite a spell . ’ |
| 30 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman recognises that the increase in unemployment last month was the lowest for almost a year , that it was the third successive fall in the rate of increase and that it shows that the rate of increase in unemployment in Britain is now coming down fast . |