Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had no plan , or rather a hundred plans , which is worse than having none at all . |
| 2 | But when we 're dealing as we are in this case , with fraud , then clearly there has to be regulations , there has to be er primary legislation er so that was the point I 'm making but as I say , it 's not just me , it 's the stock exchange , the S I B , all of them believe that we need a single enforcement body to look at these matters and I do wish perhaps the minister does but the government must acc eople and a number of ople obviously with a number of traumas and a number of di exploit the different rules and regulations and to get through them because they know they are never going to be caught and the little chance of being prosecuted and even if they are prosecuted er then the chances of being convicted are remote and even if they are convicted I 'm afraid that the judicial shi system shows er that the worst they can expect is a few hours mowing the grass in front of an old folks home or perhaps a few months er in the country residence , albeit owned by Her Majesty . |
| 3 | " After seven hours we arrived in Ekondo Jundu , a village in a forest clearing , where only a few outsiders had been seen before . |
| 4 | Some guides are indeed very brief , suggesting visits at breakneck speed where only a few items or rooms will be seen . |
| 5 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 6 | Night at any rate you had fine , as we had , with a high clear moon & just a few stars lost here & there among folds of cloud . |
| 7 | Frankly nobody knows if the stuff is going to work when tens of thousands or even a million nodes are involved and that 's exactly what the large accounts are really interested in . |
| 8 | In this respect , living systems differ from non-living ones : you can not make a visible change in the form or behaviour of a wave in the sea by moving one molecule , or even a million molecules . |
| 9 | The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres . |
| 10 | It is , therefore , sometimes a little difficult to keep up-to-date , for although what is found may not be in the area being researched by the local historian concerned , it may , nonetheless , have a bearing , for the style of housing suggested for one place may be typical of that formerly existing in another , ten or even a hundred miles away . |
| 11 | Well how about a wild boar , or even a few snails ? |
| 12 | I 'd have preferred a book that told a few truths , or even a few lies . |
| 13 | They may concede that there may be frictional teething problems lasting a few years or even a few decades but argue that these are overcome eventually . |
| 14 | Some are quite a major commitment , some a small but regular commitment , others no more than an hour or even a few minutes of your time . |
| 15 | What she wanted from Luke Hunter was not a few months ' — or even a few years ' — sensual companionship . |
| 16 | If you have a special skill , such as being a trained accountant , a hairdresser , or even a public relations consultant , there are always charities who can do with an honorary treasurer , an old people 's home that would love some free hairdressing for their residents , or an organisation that needs a brochure or press release written . |
| 17 | Then we , father er with doing the bicycles and with interest in other engineering things like gas engines , which seemed to have a , a period of er great prosperity I would say er in the period between nineteen hundred or maybe a few years before that until early twenties the , the gas engines were ideal things for little factories . |
| 18 | It was just not anything you might encounter in Texas , not if you went back or forward a million years . |
| 19 | We walk over to a dusty square where over a hundred women , migrants from the countryside and recently closed state mines , are digging and paving with picks and shovels . |
| 20 | The centre of the Bray district is Gournay , where over a hundred years ago Petit Suisse cream cheeses were evolved by a farmer 's wife and a Swiss herdsman . |
| 21 | No-one , except perhaps a few scientists , had any idea of the long-term effects the dropping of these two bombs would have on the unfortunate Japanese — and perhaps even the scientists were unsure . |
| 22 | A sheltered housing project in Thornaby has proved so popular that only a few flats are left . |
| 23 | Also , the results of many surveys in both the United States and the United Kingdom suggest that only a few firms explicitly take the rate of interest into account in deciding whether or not to carry out an investment project . |
| 24 | It seemed impossible that only a few hours before I had been happy in my cell at the aerodrome . |
| 25 | What was this very special place that only a few hours ago I had cursed myself for entering ? |
| 26 | A light sampling approach is employed with the result that only a few students , in each of a representative sample of schools , are required to complete tests . |
| 27 | He chose a way of loving which was so outrageous and costly that only a few friends could follow him into his dark night of the soul . |
| 28 | One hears odd whispers to the effect that the production of seed is limited , and that only a few growers are allowed to handle them . |
| 29 | We saw that only a few months ago when the right hon. Gentleman vetoed the appointment of a Labour city councillor in favour of the appointment of his Tory placeman . |
| 30 | At the same time energy is lost from rotational degrees of freedom , by collisions during the expansion , and samples often end up almost entirely in the lowest few rotational levels , so that only a few transitions are observed in the spectrum . |