Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In making a case for for a new exceptions policy our our starting point really is the erm strategic planning framework provided by structure plan , that 's Policy I five and the proposed Policy E two . |
| 2 | The treating , perhaps fortunately , cut his visit short for after a few nights of festivities he was stony broke . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's asked me to dine at the villa he 's looking after for a few months , just to oblige a couple of ex-pats . |
| 4 | So there 's there we are , and these are ten metres each time , so ten , twenty , thirty and let's say after after a hundred metres fifty forty . |
| 5 | Usual anti-climax — old birds standing round a bit o' grass at t'back they 'd got lease of for a few hours , wi' a garden label saying Mrs Edna Morrison and a few bunches of chrysanths put in rows . |
| 6 | What I think of as a few steps along the beach in the Isle of Wight suffices to pass the Middle Oligocene , but I find this amounts to untold thousands of feet of sediment in New Guinea . |
| 7 | ‘ You are , after all , in charge of over a thousand men . |
| 8 | What in the world would the company be like in a few years ' time if such people were in the driving seat ? |
| 9 | I can just imagine what it 's gon na look like in a few years when it gets |
| 10 | And then : ‘ I possess a stone head by Modigliani which I would not part with for a hundred pounds even at this crisis : and I routed out this head from a corner sacred to the rubbish of centuries and was called stupid for my pains in taking it away . |
| 11 | ‘ I shall give him to the Geimhreadh to play with for a few nights , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ The conventional myth seeks to depict the battle-scarred anthropologist as a lone figure wandering into a village , settling in and ‘ picking up the language ’ in a couple of months ; at the most , we may find references to translators being dispensed with after a few weeks . |
| 13 | pigeon hole , you know it 's just like bit of , scrap of paper with like a few names on it |
| 14 | The Churchill Government inherited a highly efficient system of Cabinet and official committees , but with in a few months officials were complaining that the neat system consolidated by Clement Attlee was in disarray . |
| 15 | Very strict rules apply to those drugs which in the Act are called ‘ controlled drugs ’ ; each dose has to be accounted for in a Controlled Drugs Register , whether the drug is given in hospital or in the home . |
| 16 | Comparison of data adjusted by the prescribing unit and the new index with authority averages produced no significant differences except for in a few practices with skewed age-sex demography . |
| 17 | A market for imported grapefruit , that grew from zero to several million dollars worth in a few months , was destroyed even more quickly . |
| 18 | From from a few weeks old she 'd be sitting on on there was an old er wreck of a boat there . |
| 19 | Another thing we 're going to talk to somebody from the N S P C C who 's coming in in a few moments to talk about Halloween trick or treating and stuff like that . |
| 20 | The warts are all there too for without a few blemishes I think it would be a rather dull story . |
| 21 | There is also a plan for over a 100 turbines in the Cambrian Mountains in Wales . |
| 22 | From 1066 to 1558 France had been the country that England would fight if she was going to fight anyone , but for over a hundred years that role of the perpetual enemy had been taken by Spain or — in the minds of a few people — by the Netherlands . |
| 23 | If you are away for over a 30 days , tell your insurance company . |
| 24 | Oh I 've just sent the fax to for a hundred pairs . |
| 25 | I do n't really want to go on to for a few minutes . |
| 26 | If you go to for a few days . |
| 27 | I could n't think of anything I 'd promised anybody and I had n't anything musical on for a few days , so that was all right . |
| 28 | Nor was it powerful enough , outside of a few streets with Prussian generals ' names , to force through a genuinely modern network of boulevards . |
| 29 | Despite his wide range of achievements , Dall 's name is little known outside of a few groups of specialists . |
| 30 | Before raising the anchor , he had punched the rendezvous into the Loran 's computer ; now the radio navigation system gave Golden Girl 's position in relation to the rendezvous to within a hundred metres . |