Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I felt that if the game had gone on for just five more minutes , then we could even have won it . |
| 2 | At this period the players must have been getting sick of the sight of each other , for just another few months and England were playing their first one-day games in the West Indies . |
| 3 | The idea behind such schemes is derived from children 's fostering schemes and although they suit a small minority of less disabled former patients , the hosts normally need a great deal of regular help and support from professionals for the scheme to succeed and there must also be close monitoring and supervision of the quality of care provided . |
| 4 | This is one of only two such vases , the other being in the T.T.Tsui Museum , and is expected to fetch £180–220,000 ( $315–385,000 ) . |
| 5 | Shaped as a tower with four columns supported by putti which in turn support a gallery and domed roof , it is one of only two such pieces known to exist and is estimated to realise £40–60,000 , even though the putto on the roof is missing . |
| 6 | Yet last July the Department of Health was aware of only 29 such closures , and last month the parliamentary secretary for health , Tim Yeo , could not say how many were planning to close because no data are held centrally . |
| 7 | I hope that it will reach a satisfactory conclusion and remove the substantial problem that it has laid over the lives of so many former customers of that bank . |
| 8 | One of just 16 such engines among London 's 114 stations , it is on call all over London . |
| 9 | Well when was there that fortnight and it seemed ever so strange when we car with the driver sitting that side and all the traffic coming by the other way , it seemed mad to me cos of just those few weeks , I did n't get time to get |
| 10 | A maze consisting of just three such junctions would have — well , hundred and hundreds of routes . |
| 11 | Nowadays , the results of nearly all such surveys are plotted by computer , which offers a wide range of diagrammatic methods to portray the results . |
| 12 | They are survivors of about 180 such towers in Medieval Bologna . |
| 13 | Later , under Jakobson , the idea emerged of a set of features that could be used for every language , and a set of about twelve such features was proposed in Jakobson et al. |
| 14 | Now a group of about 4,000 former residents of the institutions in the 1950s and 1960s has filed a lawsuit against seven religious orders that operated a dozen orphanages or mental hospitals , accusing them of physical , sexual and psychological abuse and seeks damages of almost £1 billion . |
| 15 | For instance , the West , Roy and Nichols study looked at the cases of men who had already been incarcerated in an institution for mentally ill offenders — they were not a random sample of even those few rapists who are convicted . |
| 16 | The final stage of the programme will conclude with the opening in 1994 of around fifty more rooms in the north wing , devoted to the eighteenth , nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 17 | Furthermore , a more comprehensive national picture of child care placements , carried out on a sample of over 2,000 such decisions by Rowe in the mid-1980s ( Rowe et al . , |
| 18 | Some sharedealing and futures dealing firms that are no longer in existence paid commission of over half all monies received from clients . |
| 19 | In a corpus of over 300 such compounds produced by one child between the ages of two years two months and three years two months , over two-thirds marked explicit contrasts , e.g. , tea-sieve versus water-sieve for a small and large strainer respectively , or car-truck versus cow-truck for pictures of a car-transporter and cattle-lorry ( Clark , Gelman and Lane , 1985 ) . |
| 20 | The visit to Wagner 's Swiss home , Tribschen , in mid-May was the first of over twenty such visits made between 1869 and 1872 , the year in which first BT appeared and then , a few months later , Wagner , with his wife Cosima , moved to illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Wagner 's friend Hans von Bulow , eloped with Wagner in 1866 and married him in 1870 . |
| 21 | By 1981 , Virgil Trofin had been downgraded , like so many former protégés , and was now Minister of Mines and Petroleum . |
| 22 | ‘ Nowhere else in London is anything like so amusing these days . ’ |
| 23 | It snowed for nearly all those days , and the Rorim stream has frozen over . ’ |
| 24 | Only three seasons ago , under Dave Stringer , Norwich led Division One until New Year 's Eve , hung on to second place for nearly three more months but collapsed to finish fourth , 14 points behind Arsenal and Liverpool . |
| 25 | It would leave them with just three more qualifiers to close the series and all of them to be played in Ireland against Lithuania in September , Spain in October and Northern Ireland , in Belfast , in November . |
| 26 | At the moment , there are 5 classrooms , but the school is about to acquire a whole new floor with about 7 more rooms . |
| 27 | A Commando was therefore not unlike an infantry battalion but had only five small rifle or fighting Troops by comparison with the battalion 's four companies , each with over 120 all ranks . |
| 28 | I think it 's contracted for about two more months . |
| 29 | P : I was coming home from a party with Robert Mitchum drinking cider when one of Shane 's gang came out and stabbed me in the arm … ( goes on for about ten more pages — Freudian Ed ) |
| 30 | I have worked for about three such employers . |