Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house was in need of total renovation and would not be habitable for nearly a year , but the Ashleys moved into a hotel in Le Touquet from where they hoped to oversee the extensive repairs to the exterior and interior . |
| 2 | oh you it 's due for about a bit more then |
| 3 | I , I maybe fall asleep for maybe an hour or two and then I 'm woken and I 'm coughing all the time . |
| 4 | HaL Computer Systems Inc , Campbell , California , remains one of the most difficult companies to ferret information out of so we 're grateful for even a glimmer of intelligence . |
| 5 | These had been kept intact for almost a century by Louisa Greenough Powers Ibbotson and her descendants . |
| 6 | Paula had been dry for almost a year before the taxi fracas . |
| 7 | Taking everything into consideration , the 1993 Coca Cola North West 200 — which is the 64th of the series — must be the most open and potentially exciting for quite a number of years . |
| 8 | The lucky ones have found jobs , of course , but many others have now been unemployed for over a year — or even two years in a significant number of cases . |
| 9 | They had been free for nearly a month . |
| 10 | The bungalow , in a pretty Worcestershire village , has been empty for nearly a year . |
| 11 | At the official press conference today , Brian Horton said he 'd been looking at the young twenty-one year old for quite a while . |
| 12 | What 's wrong with just a title , science or |
| 13 | As with all water fowl the female is less flamboyant than its partner and the duck is sooty brown with only a hint of a crest . |
| 14 | To Miss Taylor he was gently charming with just a hint of flirtatiousness in his manner . |
| 15 | A member is different from both a shareholder and a principal . |
| 16 | ‘ I was interested in how a mind works that is as analytical and calculating as his seems to be . ’ |
| 17 | You 're no more interested in how a programme is put together than you are in flying to the moon ! ’ |
| 18 | Candidates must apply to HCIMA three months before the date of the examination and must obtain , from the centre where they are enrolled , a signed letter stating that the centre is prepared to forward an examination paper to HCIMA . |
| 19 | The number of visits clients received ranged from daily to once a month . |
| 20 | Q24 Dependent on how a product is purchased , it may be described as a consumer product or as an industrial product . |
| 21 | It was the second longest period of party power , uninterrupted by either an election or a change of leadership , of this century . |
| 22 | Often the family is disrupted by a split during the sportsman 's upbringing , as in the case of footballer Lennox Smith , who , when aged 16 , had to undergo the turbulence of his father 's leaving ( his case is representative of about a quarter of the black sportsmen I encountered ) . |
| 23 | That would have kept her warm for quite a spell . ’ |
| 24 | This year 's El Niño is the most serious for nearly a decade . |
| 25 | Not this one ; it rides easy with only a trace of load-carrying compromise . |
| 26 | Use a simple drop-ended cage , one similar to either a rat or squirrel trap or , as I do , make your own specially for the job . |
| 27 | The early versions of this package were subject to quite a lot of criticism , mainly because the user interface of dBFast made little or no use of the fact that you were working in Windows . |
| 28 | Of course , it is not always easy to tell-why a baby is crying — there may be many different causes . |
| 29 | But , dear Christ , they could hardly talk : Paddy with his bashed-in nose , the look of a hog and a missing leg ; and the woman — his wife ? — she was lucky for even a guy like him . |
| 30 | ‘ He was ill for about a week . |