Example sentences of "[conj] a [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she grew older , she looked upon herself , tragically , defiantly , with all the hopelessness of fourteen years , as a plant trying to root itself upon the solid rock , without water , without earth , without shade : and then , when a little older yet , when conscious of some growth , she had to concede that she must have fallen happily upon some small dry sandy fissure , where a few grains of sand , a few drops of moisture , had been enough to support her trembling and tenacious life . |
| 2 | The tiniest corner can become a retreat from the day 's troubles , where a patch of raked sand — seen through the right eyes — is a rippled lake , or a few stems of bamboo a hillside thicket . |
| 3 | Add a cinnamon stick or a few slices of fresh root ginger , then simmer for a few minutes — check it has a good flavour , then remove the spices and add 450g/1lb chopped rhubarb . |
| 4 | In their present mood people would think nothing of mortgaging themselves for years ahead in order to acquire some trifling luxury like a jar of brandied peaches or a few leaves of tobacco . |
| 5 | Simple renal cysts were defined as one or a few cysts of 0.2 cm in diameter or more that did not result from adult polycystic disease , medullary cystic disease , or pyelogenic cysts . |
| 6 | Much the same is true of the UK , although a few case-studies of school-based evaluation activities are beginning to appear in the literature . |
| 7 | Grey breath in the air , snowmen on the heath , pub bores droning on about how typical it is that a few inches of snow throws the whole country into chaos when the Swiss handle metres of the stuff without missing a beat . |
| 8 | For some this proved too much and it was said that a few members of the group started to resemble the colour of our logo ! |
| 9 | We would readily accept that a few members of our profession have , on occasion , behaved deplorably . |
| 10 | It was the view of the assessment panel that a few months of reasonably stable attendance could be of great help to Jim when he left school and they decided that a flexible arrangement might encourage attendance where previous efforts had failed . |
| 11 | However , prospective applicants should note that a few combinations of languages are not possible because of the teaching timetable . |
| 12 | Under cover of the conversation , Luke drew her attention , his hand brushing against her arm through the fine fabric of the lacy jacket , and she started nervously so that a few drops of wine spilled over the rim of her glass . |
| 13 | Will he now confirm that one side effect of the appalling poll tax is that more than a million citizens of this country have not registered to vote ? |
| 14 | The Israeli potash and bromine works at the southern end produce more than a million tonnes of these minerals a year . |
| 15 | The tip , which has been called the biggest in Europe , receives more than a million tonnes of waste every year , nearly two thirds of it toxic . |
| 16 | Tarmac , the company behind £11m. worth of development , says more than a million tonnes of material has been removed and 500,000 tonnes of stones brought in . |
| 17 | More than half the programs we write at Bell Labs contain more than a million lines of code . ’ |
| 18 | Forty-eight hours after the Novell-buys-Unix announcement , Microsoft was out telling folks like The Wall Street Journal that it would sell more than a million copies of Windows NT the first year after it comes out . |
| 19 | The H-bomb , with an explosive capacity of more than a million tons of TNT , had fallen into the Atlantic Ocean off southern Spain . |
| 20 | The Evangelical Alliance , representing more than a million Christians of all denominations , was so concerned over the increasing problems created by the occult that it published Doorways to Danger . |
| 21 | And here I am , Kate thinks , sitting opposite you and thinking there 's more distance between us in terms of class and sex awareness than a million years of chat over drinks at six dollars a go on the Oriental Hotel terrace could ever hope to bridge . |
| 22 | It means laying more than a million miles of underground cables in our streets at a cost of £6 BILLION . |
| 23 | Like the Brown University Corpus , the ‘ Lancaster Corpus ’ would consist of more than a million words of various kinds of English . |
| 24 | ‘ Two of the main Siberian pipelines pass through this station which has storage facilities on site for more than a million barrels of crude oil . |
| 25 | If one goes to answer your question , to the top end of the range being put before you , the effect will be to release probably more than a thousand acres of greenfield land er for housing development purposes . |
| 26 | In the meantime more than a thousand miles of rivers had been made navigable , but these made no noticeable change in the landscape . |
| 27 | For the next three hours the motorbike led them a nightmare chase over more than a hundred kilometres of mountain roads that were often little more than channels covered by scree and loose gravel , furrowed by rain-water and ridged by surfacing strata of rock . |
| 28 | More than a hundred members of the legislature are simultaneously part of the executive and they provide a large phalanx of obedient support for cabinet initiatives . |
| 29 | Claims lawyer Leslie Perrin is wading through more than a hundred cases of people who say they 've fallen victim to the virulent chryptosporidium bug and he believes that 's just a small percentage of the number who could eventually seek damages . |
| 30 | The carrot-shaped Attic peninsula dangles into the Aegean towards the Cyclades islands ; there are more than a hundred miles of hospitable Attic coastline , with plenty of good harbours from Skala Oropou in the north-east , past Laurion , just mentioned , round Sounion with its dockyards . |