Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I wo n't lose much money on this Sierra about a hundred quid |
| 2 | It took the industrious Lowndes nearly a hundred lines to explain it all . |
| 3 | By this time she had been away from her native Russia scarcely a dozen years . |
| 4 | The Symon Unconformity has been picked at the base of a thin coal sequence which might correspond to the Phillipsii Chronozone of the upper Westphalian C. Thus a limited gas potential can be attributed to the base of the Barren Measures sequence . |
| 5 | Bears became extinct in the Austrian Alps over a hundred years , but in the 1970s a male bear from Yugoslavia wandered across the border to take up residence in the southeast province of Styria . |
| 6 | In Northern Iraq over a hundred thousand Kurdish children are still unable to return to their homes after being forced to flee Saddam Hussein 's army . |
| 7 | A Frenchman , E.A. Martel , made the first descent of Gaping Gill nearly a hundred years ago in 23 minutes using caving ladders ; the petrol-driven winch drops visitors in less than 90 seconds ! |