Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For only a month ago he had seen his eldest son and his younger daughter appoint proctors to treat in the matter of their proposed Danish marriages . |
| 2 | In fact , Royal Oak equalised after only a minute when Finch 's cross came to Clinton Ford who scored with a snap shot . |
| 3 | Vogts has recalled 32-year-old Eintracht Frankfurt midfielder , Uwe Bein , who played in the 1990 World Cup , into his squad after nearly a year out of the reckoning . |
| 4 | After about an hour when the pies and chips have stopped flying across the screen I notice a strange purple growth , like a cancer cell under a microscope , at the bottom left hand corner of the screen . |
| 5 | I mean yes er as I said earlier on it 's just a question for for just a bit more obviously in the readings report th there is there is concern naturally with the by-passes in paragraph two five I mean I have n't had a chance to sort of looking up yet , and I 'd by grateful for County Executive 's advice on that and I thought we as a County Council had agreed a line erm for a by-pass through the West Sussex portion at least . |
| 6 | He held my gaze for just a fraction longer than you 'd expect , and I was certain then that underneath his professional front he was interested in me . |
| 7 | An additional and severe problem is that the volumes of data which are already collected are huge by the standards of only a decade ago . |
| 8 | It was a considerable achievement for a society to pour so much milk , so much orange juice , so many vitamins down the throats of its children , for the height and weight of those children to outstrip so fast the measurements of only a decade before . |
| 9 | It also meant that in 1213 , and again in 1215–17 , the French king was able to take the war to England , a thing unheard of only a generation earlier . |
| 10 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter , which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders it receives in the intervening weeks . |
| 11 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders they get in the intervening weeks . |
| 12 | Another source of perhaps a decade later , Brit . |
| 13 | Although from our experience of just a while ago I would say that , undoubtedly , beneath that frigid exterior there lurks an inferno of quite gigantic proportions . ’ |
| 14 | Their former Serbian neighbours of just a week ago have also left , streaming in the opposite direction across the Drina into Serbia . |
| 15 | He smiled back at her , and the knife twisted still deeper in Shae 's stomach , robbing her of the pleasure of just a moment ago . |
| 16 | There followed an awful period of nearly a year when she was unemployed , searching the back pages of the Times Higher Education Supplement in vain every week for lectureships in nineteenth-century English Literature . |
| 17 | My music then had an unfortunate break of nearly a year when I was eight years old ; we moved house . |
| 18 | Regardless of the method used to reproduce it , the typesetting systems of even a decade ago were slow , cumbersome and highly skill-intensive . |
| 19 | Such communications may clearly show signs of similarity to our own human allocation of emotions and feelings — anger , affection , dominance and so on — but of how a chimpanzee actually feels anger , we have little comprehension . |
| 20 | Watson 's remark in a BBC Radio 4 interview reiterated his views of almost a decade earlier . |
| 21 | Oddly enough , The Importance of being Earnest of almost a century ago does n't date , unlike some of Noel Coward 's inter-war comedies . |
| 22 | A spur , sometimes inappropriately called a snag , is the result of either a breakage not being cleaned back properly to an eye or growth bud , or of pruning too far above a bud — a common case is cutting a bloom , and not paying attention to what is left behind on the plant . |
| 23 | There followed a period of over a year when Karl moved aimlessly through a succession of jobs . |
| 24 | Testing these claims against how a language actually operates in practice , Pulgrum , for instance , points out : |
| 25 | I 've been here for nearly a year now . ’ |
| 26 | He did n't , you did n't take out for nearly a year though in n it Bedge ? |
| 27 | It had not been sighted for nearly a month apart from a brief report by a shepherd in Northumberland which sounded like a possibility but was vague — and the Zoo conceded that if he was still alive he could certainly survive like any other golden eagle in the wild . |
| 28 | An envelope arrived with only a receipt inside , it was for the ruby ring . |
| 29 | The sky was clear and blue with not a cloud even in the west . |
| 30 | You were out here swimming around with not a stitch on . |