Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Five bodies were found yesterday ( Wednesday ) , today another two and just a few hours ago the last body , ’ said a human rights officer . |
| 2 | it was a great winner … his sixth of the season … and it just about booked Swindon a place in the promotion-play offs … with only four games to go it 's asking too much to make the top two but only a disaster can keep them out of the play-offs … |
| 3 | Certainly not from the club scene , where an average gate is rarely more than a few hundred and even a big club like Hawick has had to launch a special initiative to arrest their declining membership . |
| 4 | However , most of these were very small organizations only arranging a few hundred or perhaps a few thousand holidays a year . |
| 5 | And then , erm it was at a much later stage , in the nineteen twenties or perhaps a little bit earlier than that they actually first managed to get enough of it to liquify . |
| 6 | Then we , father er with doing the bicycles and with interest in other engineering things like gas engines , which seemed to have a , a period of er great prosperity I would say er in the period between nineteen hundred or maybe a few years before that until early twenties the , the gas engines were ideal things for little factories . |
| 7 | They managed to raise three thousand and now a businessman , who does n't want to be named , has stepped in and paid the rest . |
| 8 | It would , however , be too simple to portray antislavery after the late 1830s as purely a scene of contending sects more concerned with maintaining their own kinds of purity than achieving anything practical . |
| 9 | At the secondary-school stage it becomes less a partnership between all three and more a matter for the individual student and his or her advisers , whether from inside the school or outside . |