Example sentences of "add [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 To the feral reek of buffalo , horse and fowl and the sour remains of human nourishment was added suddenly a smoky , faintly ammoniac odour of female flesh , entirely new to him .
2 He says a new museum is added once a year , the size of the Convention Centre has doubled and the LA International Airport has been transformed .
3 A resolution of 22 March 1792 provided for the erection of temporary stabling for 50 horses , to which were to be added later a lecture theatre and a dissecting room .
4 Next week came , and we never got that half hour , so it must have added up a lot , all throughout the year .
5 The neck has been bound to include the fret ends , which is another nice touch as it looks tidier and actually adds quite a lot to the overall feel of the fingerboard .
6 I was about to respond that she 'd added quite a lot to the letters , but Masha came out of the bathroom .
7 And they do actually now add , they only used to give you Italian terms , they 've now add added quite a lot of the French ones and the German ones .
8 In terms of self-ascription , 77% spontaneously described themselves as middle- or working-class , while a further 5% added only a slight qualification such as " upper-middle class .
9 Right so if we added together a sixth and a twelfth what will it make ?
10 We made it a bit more Kinks-y and added just a little bit of flamenco , but how can you improve a great song like that ? ’
11 He was far too close to the edge , he might have slipped anyway , and what did it matter if she added just a little extra impetus ?
12 Impressive results from building materials group Redland coupled with an optimistic forecast about future trading proved something of a damp squib as the stock added just a penny to 490p .
13 The influence of overseas coaches and players in rugby league has raised the standard of individual players enormously , and added quite a few numbers through the turnstiles .
14 Add together a susceptibility to flashy packaging and a lack of any real interest in the substance of other people 's problems and you 're on the way to producing a ‘ designer carer , .
15 Besides , the hyacinth jersey was an older woman 's dress , adding just a little frailty .
16 But the insert cap had stuck to the outer cap of the bottle and had come off — so instead of adding just a couple of drops , half the contents of the bottle went in .
17 This means adding just a little expanded memory produces a large percentage increase in the amount of memory available for data storage .
18 Use leaves from your most decorative house plants and add just a few perfect blooms to create a beautiful corsage for a special occasion .
19 I suppose you might a very simple spreadsheet , then er , just adding up a column of numbers is hardly get that wrong .
20 Now I accept that if you 're adding up a column of figures you ca n't say well it 's within a few thousand well that 'll do .
21 What he did not tell me — and I only learnt during the course of the journey — was that we were adding about a thousand miles to our route .
22 It gives a strange luminosity to the hills , especially under a dark sky , adding almost a lunar atmosphere to the landscapes .
23 The basic controls offered are the ability to adjust the lightness and contrast levels , add either a dot or line screen and adjust the screen angle .
24 on the basis of a hundred per hundred thousand square feet to which you 'd have to add obviously a sort of surrounding area from the square footage used for a distribution warehouse , it looks as though it 's around about the thirteen
25 If you 'd like to add just a touch of the tartans , check out these suggestions for your home .
26 If if I say well let's try and add up a sixth and a twelfth and most people want to add the six and the twelve together and things like that but you ca n't do it that way you 'll have to change them both into something that 's the same .
27 Sipotai can add nearly a tuman to his strength whenever he wants , and most of them are no more than two days ’ ride from here . ’
28 I mean I can give you a little example erm I was once trying to add up a series of figures in the middle of an admissions exercise , and one of the other one of the men said to me ‘ oh , come on , you 're far too pretty to do mental arithmetic ’ and I completely lost my train of thought , I got rather confused .
29 A particularly straightforward procedure in principle and yet a very informative one is to add carefully a layer of hot salty water on top of one of cold fresh water ( or the counterpart of this in which two solutes are used instead of heat and one solute ) .
30 A self-employed trader can add back a non-allowable expense in his Sch D tax computation and that is the end of the matter .
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