Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was Rainer Schickert for only a year and a few months — and mostly in hiding . |
| 2 | Ed and Matthew stayed at Peter 's for only a week and then they were off on their own . |
| 3 | The children have been back at school for only a month and already I am exhausted . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I was at Leeds and Newcastle for just a year and you did n't have time to get your boots dirty . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had been a share salesman for just a week and a half , and the deal put £200 in his pocket . |
| 11 | However , only one in nine households is ‘ typical ’ , most consisting of just a man and a woman . |
| 12 | But in between these new feelings there was a gap of nearly a year and in that time something so terrible had happened . |
| 13 | It is a massive concerto in four movements rather than the usual three — the addition of a scherzo emphasises that the work has the characteristics of both a concerto and a symphony . |
| 14 | It is appropriate at this stage , having considered the formation and structure of both a partnership and a company , to compare and contrast these two business structures . |
| 15 | This is a sweeping assertion , and naturally there are some glowing exceptions to this , but the growing recent interest in the teaching of information skills , whether under the title of study skills or of library-user skills , is indicative of a realisation of both a need and a weakness in much present educational practice . |
| 16 | But she knew Ellen would write and that the letter would be in the nature of both a declaration and a justification . |
| 17 | Roberts ' prints have become almost a cliché , corrupted by overuse , representative of both a cause and a dream . |
| 18 | Allegations of official dithering had intensified after Rao , who had signalled his determination to rebuild the mosque , indicated on Dec. 10 that he favoured the building of both a mosque and a Hindu temple . |
| 19 | Revocation and amendment of both an obligation and a right are treated in tandem in Article 37 . |
| 20 | But from 1983 opportunities in the Gulf were substantially reduced when the region experienced a severe economic downturn as a result of both an oil and a world-wide recession . |
| 21 | None of these new and developing areas of study was without its problems , and the committees and boards had to be constantly confronting difficulties of either a general and continuing or a highly specific kind . |
| 22 | In the 1970s and 1980s , Otmoor has been the controversial subject of vigorous campaigns fought against both a motorway and an extensive drainage scheme for the river Ray proposed by the Thames Water Authority . |
| 23 | For Denny has been on the local comedy circuit for nearly a decade and was a runner-up in the Scouseology Awards two years ago . |
| 24 | Margaret had been seeing him for nearly a year and Maura had the feeling that they were going to get married . |
| 25 | For nearly a century and a half after the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648 there was a tendency for the ratio of casualties to total numbers engaged in West European wars to fall and for that of prisoners to dead and wounded to rise . |
| 26 | Statajack was David 's first win for nearly a month and the big time could come with Seattle Rhyme who reappears against Derby third Silver Wizard and Jeune at Kempton on Saturday . |
| 27 | He had been immersed in the clean up work for nearly a month and he wanted to be with friends who restore and collect aircraft and who could empathise more fully than most with him about the size of the task and who also might offer some constructive ideas ‘ At first I was in shock , it was too much to comprehend ’ , shared Kermit . |
| 28 | By the time the rope went tight I had been standing in the same spot for nearly an hour and a half . |
| 29 | However , if we choose , we can continue the debate for nearly an hour and a half . |
| 30 | I should have thought that it was much more sensible to make proposals from the start for both a station and a link . |