Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A burst of frequency between 10 and 10 4 Hz is expected with a duration of several cycles and an energy release of between and in gravitational waves from a star core of mass M. The mass M is expected to be similar to that of the pulsars , which average around for the few cases where measurements have been made . |
| 2 | Hence TL is normally used in the following situations : beyond the range of radiocarbon : when no organic material has been preserved on the site : when the association between the event to be dated and the radiocarbon content of the organic samples is poor ; or for the few periods where the age range on a calibrated radiocarbon age is larger than the corresponding TL error term . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , it wo n't matter for the few yards back to the cottage … ’ |
| 4 | He eventually got the girl to agree to a date and walked around with an idiot smile on his face for the few weeks beforehand . |
| 5 | It is not unknown for claims to be submitted for the same items more than once . |
| 6 | We 'd get £50 or £60 a night — which might not sound like a lot but that 's still what young bands get for the same gigs today . |
| 7 | Soon Downes had reached the last carriage , in front of the diesel locomotive , staring quickly through the windows of the compartment as the few doors still remaining open were banged shut and a whistle blew , and with a slight chug and then with a mighty heave the long , north-bound train began slowly to move forward , gradually picking up a little speed , before moving out and away along the curving stretch of line that led to Banbury . |
| 8 | Fighting between the former allies yesterday sent more terrified Croat refugees fleeing from the city as desperate Croat defenders pounded positions occupied by Muslim troops . |
| 9 | Schiller had pleaded , once again going through the many reasons why it was right for him to gain a seat on the council . |
| 10 | This is why people who are the same age as one another usually end up being friends because they are going through the same experiences simultaneously . |
| 11 | It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard . |
| 12 | People will say , you know , this person , and they wo n't mention their names , after a few hours together , we start to get to grips with the nature of influencing , and the names start falling out . |
| 13 | Tonight there was a moon , starlight even , and he knew that after a few minutes away from the house it would be possible for her to see with surprising clarity ; but moon or no moon , it seemed to make little difference to her and she 'd been spending hours abroad at even the deepest , darkest point in the cycle . |
| 14 | After a few minutes more the conversation was beginning to flag . |
| 15 | After a few minutes more of dozing I sat up . |
| 16 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 17 | I should add that there are also a great many flowers that seem to have rather negative meanings , such as the lovely little lawn daisy , which apparently means ‘ delay ’ , or ‘ return after a few days when I may give you an answer ’ — not necessarily the most suitable text to put on a bookmark . |
| 18 | One of two possible methods is to divide off one end of the tank using a clear divider and install the new fish into the smaller section , after a few days when the other occupants of the tank have accepted the newcomer then remove the divider and let all of the fish mix . |
| 19 | The flow of oil was for the most part halted after a few days when US aircraft bombed the pumping manifold stations . |
| 20 | Most of all , after a few days there began to appear a growing chorus of complaint from hosts about the condition of some of the evacuees . |
| 21 | If there is no improvement after a few days then it is either not the appropriate remedy or there are some environmental maintaining causes blocking the remedy action §252 . |
| 22 | She was n't afraid of the dark ; but now , after a few nights here , she was beginning to admit to herself that she did n't really like such a depth of blackness . |
| 23 | After a few blows there , the porcupine succumbs and is then turned carefully over and eaten from underneath , its soft underbelly causing no problems . |
| 24 | For these reasons , and many more , no teenager returns home , even after a few months away , without having changed . |
| 25 | After a few months however , Mr Wilson had been recalled to London as the head of his company had been tragically killed in an automobile accident . |
| 26 | After a few months off , your main worry may be that you wo n't be able to cope with a full-time job , which will probably put you off returning to what you were doing before the baby . |
| 27 | Her cancer , which had not even been mentioned during the hypnosis session , rapidly regressed and after a few weeks even all radiological evidence of it had disappeared . |
| 28 | Part of him wants to get back to the security of home but he knows that after a few weeks there he might long for the contacts , communication and craziness of the multi-media scheme . |
| 29 | Think of the many hours when the two of them are closeted in the den . |
| 30 | If this is the case , we would expect to find only a few of the many polymorphisms readily interpretable as responsive to present proximal selective forces . |