Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But each has different effects at different ages so the balance is sensitive to changes in age structure ( de Cooman , Ermisch , and Joshi 1987 , 1988 ) . |
| 2 | Just 30 minutes later the westerly switched itself off — just like that , as the man said — and we had to motor sail for the rest of the voyage . |
| 3 | However , we can not be sure , for it is clear that from Mesolithic times onwards the frequency of brachycephaly was increasing continually in some parts of Europe . |
| 4 | These days , all information media are built on electronic foundations so the qualification is simply redundant . |
| 5 | Indeed it is this inaccuracy that leads to its often being called a circadian clock ( from the latin , circa — about ; diem — a day ) If it is correctly timed one day , it will be approximately 1 hour late the next , about 2 hours late the day after that , and so on until it will be ‘ useful ’ again after about 3 weeks . |
| 6 | Just a few minutes ago the ambulance carrying the two boys arrived at Stoke Mandeville . |
| 7 | A few minutes later the company sergeant-major marched out of the tent to collect him . |
| 8 | To her surprise a few minutes later the taxi pulled up outside a fashion shop in one of the main city streets as the driver indicated she had reached her destination . |
| 9 | A few minutes later the ship saw us and turned . |
| 10 | A few minutes later the Doctor had reached the valley . |
| 11 | A few minutes later the train arrived in Duisburg and we got out . |
| 12 | A few minutes later the spaceship landed and I was home . |
| 13 | A few minutes later the spaceship was falling towards a planet covered with tall buildings . |
| 14 | After a few minutes more the conversation was beginning to flag . |
| 15 | A recent view is that a postsynaptic kinase is activated transiently ( for less than a few minutes following the tetanus ) and a presynaptic kinase is activated for longer periods ( but for less than 1 hour ) . |
| 16 | These texts share a fighting tone and a conviction that established forms of literary study , and in some cases even the concept of literature itself , have to be overthrown . |
| 17 | A few hours later the carrack was proceeding slowly up the narrow entrance to the Tagus between St Julian 's Fort and the sandbanks where the long Atlantic swell was making a dazzling white line of roaring surf . |
| 18 | A few hours later the verdict was in . |
| 19 | A few hours later the family were driving back to Windsor . |
| 20 | The Prime Minister announced on Nov. 26 that some months earlier the Queen had asked him to consider the basis on which she might voluntarily pay tax on her personal income and also take responsibility for certain payments to additional members of the royal family ; the Prince of Wales had made a similar request with regard to the Duchy of Cornwall . |
| 21 | Despite denials from both parties , managing director Garry Hawkes FHCIMA withdrew his nomination for presidency of the HCIMA in order to concentrate on business , and a few months later the story circulating was that he had put together a management buyout package . |
| 22 | And a few months later the Prince asked me to marry him . |
| 23 | A few months later the IAC , inspired by Jack Buckner , suddenly produced a paper for all internationals to sign agreeing to be random tested at a moment 's notice , anywhere , any time . |
| 24 | A few months later the journal published an article covering similar ground . |
| 25 | Despite the high profile launch , just a few months later the audience of Eldorado was only 2.4 million people , ‘ fewer than Gardeners World , ’ as the Daily Express pointed out . |
| 26 | A few months later the Corruption Trials began . ’ |
| 27 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |
| 28 | Just a few months ago the Queen Mother wore a Hartnell creation to the wedding of Lady Helen Windsor . |
| 29 | Luckily , 21-year-old Emma , was well enough to make the trip to St. Bart 's on Monday morning by train , said Lyn , — but a few months ago the situation would have been completely different . |
| 30 | A few months ago the plant recruited its first workers — the men and women , mainly aged under 25 , whose minds and fingers are agile enough to turn out microscopic silicon chips by the hundreds of thousands . |