Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is quite possible for a company to show a trading profit on its normal operations over a year and to cap this by receiving an enquiry for its most profitable product many times greater than any previous order . |
| 2 | It is quite possible for a company to show a trading profit on its normal operations over a year and to cap this by receiving an enquiry for its most profitable product many times greater than any previous order . |
| 3 | They provide an intermediate level of reasons to which one appeals in normal cases where a need for a decision arises . |
| 4 | Seven or eight months later a customer booked a holiday , relying on an old unamended copy of the brochure . |
| 5 | Tobacco advertising through sponsorship and billboards had been waiting like the last prisoners on death row for eight months following a cabinet announcement in April 1992 that the end of their last ditch stand was nigh . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've had a splendid time , ’ she replied instead , and when some minutes later a taxi whisked them back to their hotel she felt it had been a dream of an evening . |
| 7 | She should also swim for 30 minutes once a week and do my video Thighs , Tums & Bums 1-2 times a week . |
| 8 | They do n't wait for 30 minutes once a week . ’ |
| 9 | Power is a relation between social groups not a possession to be worn like a garment or flaunted like an antiracist badge . |
| 10 | This endorsement should be added to 1 Star , 2 Star & 3 Star policies where a coin collection is covered under Part B — Household Contents . |
| 11 | This endorsement should be added to 1 Star , 2 Star & 3 Star policies where a stamp collection is covered under Part B — Household Contents . |
| 12 | In a few cases where a horn has been removed this can be proved by stating so or by an admission on the part of the defendant . |
| 13 | He could not explain why he ran or why he and David abandoned a car a few minutes later a mile from the town centre . |
| 14 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |
| 15 | So I hung around and , sure enough , a few minutes later a squad car turned up all its lights flashing . |
| 16 | A few minutes later a car drew up , its brakes screeching in the best SS fashion . |
| 17 | But just a few minutes later a playgroup worker found the baby lying on the tiled floor next to the pushchair . |
| 18 | A few minutes later a youth with a shattered left knee-cap was wheeled on a low-slung ambulance trolley into the Cleansing Theatre . |
| 19 | A few minutes earlier a JetRanger helicopter had lifted-off from Blackpool bound for Ronaldsway . |
| 20 | Opportunities for employment for graduates in linguistics are very similar to those for any graduate in Arts curricula , but there are some cases where a degree in linguistics is regarded as a relevant qualification , namely speech therapy and language teaching . |
| 21 | It is noted here because it indicates the increasing dissatisfaction of many Edwardian novelists with the high Victorian ideal of the exclusive ‘ home ’ , despite ( or because of ) the fact that in that period , as Walter Crane observed , ‘ the beautifying of houses , to those to whom it is possible , has become in some cases almost a religion ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ There could be literally a multitude of quite proper reasons why a child decided it no longer wanted to live with its parents . ’ |
| 23 | They had been afloat only a few hours when a seaman shouted down the hatch . |
| 24 | He successfully invaded Sudan to the south in 1820 , making it effectively a colony , and in some eyes even a part of Egypt . |
| 25 | Campbell 's survey of London trades in 1747 lists only a handful of female crafts all paid wages well below male trades . |
| 26 | They 'd only taken a few steps when a man gave an appreciative wolf whistle . |
| 27 | We had only gone a few steps when a voice called out from across the street . |
| 28 | Some months later a colleague and I were returning to London from a meeting in Brussels . |
| 29 | Some months ago a gang of local youngsters asked if I could help them in this direction . |
| 30 | A few months later a man living in Herne Bay in Kent found a live earthworm in his garden after a rainstorm . |