Example sentences of "[adj] by [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That fact , and the fact of being in the island , separated from the land wars which every other country in Europe has had to cope with , have produced in the British by now a different state of mind about politics , about the state , about the military , and about foreigners . |
| 2 | Near neighbours in genetic space are animals that differ from one another by only a single mutation . |
| 3 | With the raffle short of a grand by just a few quid , the cry for the remainder went up . |
| 4 | New Zealand have suffered heavily at the hands of their co-hosts , winning just two from 15 matches , both of those by just a single run . |
| 5 | While professional discretion and autonomy is also to some extent an issue in this service , implementation is not complicated by either a multi-tiered structure like that of the health service , or by powerful institutions like the schools and colleges . |