Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I maybe fall asleep for maybe an hour or two and then I 'm woken and I 'm coughing all the time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was the second longest period of party power , uninterrupted by either an election or a change of leadership , of this century . |
| 4 | In any case it is not easy to be sure about how an illness will progress or what the outcome of a treatment will be . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been awake for over an hour , ’ she said , sitting on the edge of the bed , when he came back into the bedroom . |
| 6 | Epilepsy may be due to either an increase in glutamate-mediated excitation or a reduction in GABA-mediated inhibition . |
| 7 | Absent or available for over an hour , the gift of speech had been restored to Alistair — speech , that prince of all the faculties . |
| 8 | After Downes had been driven away , Morse and Lewis walked back to their own car , where Morse gave urgent instructions to the forensic lab to sent a couple of their whizz-kids over to the railway station — immediately ! — and to Kidlington HQ to see that a breakdown van would be available in about an hour 's time to ferry away a certain Metro . |
| 9 | One February Sunday , on just about the coldest night I 've ever known , four of us queued up outside a cinema in Golders Green for over an hour to see Crocodile Dundee . |
| 10 | She 'd been sitting motionless for over an hour , conducting an inner battle over the need to alert the board of Chester 's about Guy 's perfidy , with the stubborn hope that somehow she might be wrong keeping her glued to the spot , torn with indecision … |
| 11 | Well er erm once they 're opened they 're alright for about an hour . |
| 12 | Having gone conspicuously quiet for over an hour , disappearing before we had even finished unpacking the car , there is nothing more to be deduced than the obvious . |