Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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1 | Those who did receive schooling did so for perhaps a year or two , often much less , at some point in their childhood , with hardly any attending school beyond the age of ten or eleven . |
2 | By any normal standards , the Al Fayed brothers had been rich men for perhaps a decade or even two . |
3 | It is a surprising answer , and we have known and understood it for only a century or so . |
4 | She hesitated for only a second or two , then without looking around , she ripped the ties from the front flaps and stepped outside . |
5 | Near its edge the dark , wet sand was a sheen on which footsteps kept their shape for only a minute or two . |
6 | You could then include a breeding pond ( occupied for only a fortnight or so each year ) . |
7 | ‘ He was Rainer Schickert for only a year and a few months — and mostly in hiding . |
8 | Although 20 per cent go out into the country once a week , the study showed that less than half of the population are monthly visitors and 80 per cent of visits are for only a day or less . |
9 | He himself was here for only a day or two . |
10 | Ed and Matthew stayed at Peter 's for only a week and then they were off on their own . |
11 | We delayed it for only a moment or two , remembering the fluffy chick waiting below for its supper of regurgitated fish . |
12 | Even Mira is within range for only a month or two out of its total period of 331 days ; at minimum it sinks to magnitude 10 , so that it is lost even with a small telescope . |
13 | The children have been back at school for only a month and already I am exhausted . |
14 | According to that theory everything exists for only an instant and is then replaced by a facsimile of itself , so that it is but a series of momentary existences like the successive frames in a cine-camera film . |
15 | The concept of entities that appear for only an instant and then disappear was used by Buddhists to prove that all is merely appearance and that absolute reality does not fall within the domain of the intellect . |
16 | Marinate for only an hour or so in the same marinade as before or use just olive oil , lemon juice salt and freshly ground black pepper . |
17 | You know perfectly well our enforced intimacy was a great strain on me after only a day or so . ’ |
18 | Although you may drop a dress size or see the scales tipping in your favour after only a week or two , all too often the results are short-lived . |
19 | After only an hour or so , Davies released the ex-owner as an intruder . |
20 | After nearly an hour and a half at sea in gale force winds Falmouth lifeboat , under the command of Second Coxswain Alan Barnes , came up on the yacht , a 40ft steel ketch , which was drifting two and a half miles south west of The Lizard Light . |
21 | I must 'ave bin sittin' there fer over an hour an' then this geezer comes out an' beckons me in 'is office . |
22 | It was there for just a second or two , then it moved away quickly . |
23 | Now , if any of you get terribly tense at the back of shoulders which we all seem to do nowadays , if you come for just a back and shoulder massage , we actually work on the back of the neck and along the shoulders using massage movements which helps to relax you , which helps to actually break down the lactic acid that builds up in the muscles that causes you pain . |
24 | I was at Leeds and Newcastle for just a year and you did n't have time to get your boots dirty . ’ |
25 | People , Let's relax for just a sec and not get carried away with talk of 7–0 victories over twenty years ago , a lucky , boring 1–0 will do wonderfully well . |
26 | And now that I 'm home for good , at least my bookings abroad will be for just a week or so at a time , that 's all , well … we 're coming together . |
27 | He had been a share salesman for just a week and a half , and the deal put £200 in his pocket . |
28 | Members can also choose how long they wish to stay at the ‘ weekend ’ , whether for just a morning or afternoon or for the whole day-and-a-half . |
29 | He would stay for just an hour or so and then gather up the equipment and disappear . |
30 | She went to sit on the sofa , and there she dreamed of Johnny , tenderly and with affection ; she thought of the words that he had said , and they made a warm spot , infinitely sweet , deep inside her where it could not be touched ; for just an hour or two , she began to believe that she truly loved him . |