Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For rather a lot of money . |
| 2 | This is a pity , for arguably an appreciation of both the importance of the social construction of feminity and masculinity and the extent to which fundamental concepts are gendered is necessary before the process by which men and women 's thinking about marriage and divorce can be understood . |
| 3 | ‘ Sometimes a merchant in a souk will settle for perhaps a profit of only five per cent , ’ says Mr Latif of the Moroccan Tourist Board . |
| 4 | Even so , I hope that the House will forgive me if , after my speech , I am absent from the Chamber for perhaps a quarter of an hour while I go there to congratulate the winners of training awards . |
| 5 | ‘ We will be back in the summer for perhaps a couple of days when we have got the bigger picture and can ask more intelligent questions , ’ he said . |
| 6 | He remains a major shareholder , but his shares are worth only a fraction of their '84 value . |
| 7 | The concept of ‘ continuing education ’ , for long a part of European thought , is now taking firm root , even in the UK . |
| 8 | He wrote articles for the magazine of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society , of which he was a founder , and for long a member of council . |
| 9 | Tersteeg , his ex-employer and for long a friend of the family , wrote him a disapproving letter . |
| 10 | Altruistic behaviour , for long a puzzle to evolutionists , may now be explained largely in terms of kin selection for the inclusive fitness of individuals . |
| 11 | The London County Council , for long a stronghold of the Labour party , was one of the relatively few authorities to press firmly in this direction in the immediate post-war years . |
| 12 | But the country remained for long a backwater in international relations . |
| 13 | Only one Japanese factory ship remains in operation , and one Japanese whaling company is left , accounting for only a fraction of the income that once was earned from whale products . |
| 14 | American and European paintings , prints and sculptures , account for only a fraction of the museum 's 100,000 objects which range from American Indian material , African art , and musical instruments , to Nabataen sculpture from Jordan , Egyptian and classical antiquities , Asian art , costumes , and 300 American , English and Continental portrait miniatures . |
| 15 | Balleny 's voyage was a commercial failure , the sealskins he unloaded paying for only a fraction of the expedition . |
| 16 | Some stances may be held for only a fraction of a second , just long enough to provide the correct arrangement of balance , position and technique availability . |
| 17 | This situation only arises when the motor is stationary ; if the motor is moving the phases are excited in sequence and any one winding is excited for only a fraction of the cycle . |
| 18 | After all , ’ she added as he looked back at her impassively , ‘ it accounts for only a fraction of your business interests . |
| 19 | Even then it tends to be an option used for only a selection of shots depending on hazards , the pin position and preference for a particular shape of shot . |
| 20 | In all of the forested areas sampled by Eyre , commercial lumber production was responsible for only a proportion of the deforestation . |
| 21 | Thus the interior contained only a single row of nave arcade columns ( Plate 21 ) and the comparative narrowness of the plan meant that there was space for only a range of shallow ancillary rooms — stores , bathrooms and laundry ( Fig 44 ) — on the north side of the ground-floor flats access corridor once dwellings of suitable size , restricted to the spans of the nave arcade bays , had been accommodated . |
| 22 | So , as with choice among different types of credit arrangement , choice between credit and cash is a matter of practical reality for only a minority of consumers . |
| 23 | But of course the very same argument could have been used in favour of broadcasting in any of over a and of childhood for only a minority of Tanzanians . |
| 24 | Although there are many agencies operating in the domiciliary sector we have detailed utilization data for only a minority of these : home helps and the mobile meals services ( meals on wheels ) . |
| 25 | Residential homes and hospitals cater for only a minority of dementia sufferers and this situation is likely to continue for the foreseeable future . |
| 26 | Given the fullness of most fields by the end of the first main phase of the PCAS cycle , the continuing applications procedure and late applications are relevant for only a minority of subjects , sometimes including new fields which suffer from uncertainty as their approval is pending . |
| 27 | Although late rebleeding often occurred and resulted in readmission to hospital , it accounted for only a minority of deaths . |
| 28 | Studies by McLeod , Becker , and Byrnes ( 1974 ) and Iyengar and Kinder ( 1987 ) , for example , suggest that the media set the agenda for only a part of their audience : those highly reliant on a particular news source , those low in political involvement and information , and those who are relatively inattentive to the news generally — in short , those who are marginal to politics . |
| 29 | Back here , his chance at Edgbaston , where last season he was selected for only a couple of first-class fixtures , came because Dermot Reeve was injured . |
| 30 | The dividing wall holding this tank only attracts sunlight from one side and for only a couple of hours a day , and only at the height of summer . |