Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE GROWTH of our London Division continues , and the latest to join the fold is SG Warburg , a highly prestigious contract only a stone 's throw away from the City Road office . |
| 2 | But how far was British industry simply a victim of circumstances ? |
| 3 | As I write this the survivors are eight days old , and being fed Brineshrimp once a day , and powdered flake or powdered High Protein once a day . |
| 4 | Or is the current wave of hooliganism in British football merely a continuation of old traditions , which we now are less willing to tolerate and more anxious to report ? |
| 5 | An inquest has revealed she was killed by a faulty , twenty year old machine just a day after she 'd bought it from a relative . |
| 6 | FERGIE may have found it difficult to learn Her Royal Lessons , but you do n't have to be a fitness connoisseur to see that she has learned a thing or two about keeping in Of course her title of the Disappearing Duchess takes on a different meaning now a year ago it referred to her ability to lose five stones of regal flab . |
| 7 | For those who liked cleaning their buttons there was button polish and a British parade once a year on the King 's Birthday . |
| 8 | She and Luc share a luxurious flat just a stone 's throw from the famous Hollywood sign — complete with swimming pool . |
| 9 | ‘ When I took over the club from Connelly I agreed to give old Giuseppe there a job , ’ he explained . |
| 10 | meeting with the Education Department and Senior English Inspector once a year to account ( financially ) for what we are doing and to try to bargain for what we might get next year … |
| 11 | His upbeat message just a day after Chancellor Norman Lamont warned that full economic recovery could be three years away sparked an angry clash with Labour . |
| 12 | Soak your nails in warm olive oil once a week to keep them in good condition . |
| 13 | This will disgorge the stored information twice a day , at alternate intervals of 10 and 14 hours , as IRAS passes over the operational control centre at Chilton in Oxfordshire . |
| 14 | Too frequently I have made the mistake of buying fresh food once a week and either running out of organisational steam halfway through the week , so all the meals I had planned to cook have fallen by the wayside , or being held up at work or in some other way and grabbing fish and chips on the way home instead . |
| 15 | The ‘ Coach Fund ’ was heavily subscribed ; Crawford had taken on an extensive schedule which saw him coaching his protégés ( ‘ Crawford 's Colts ’ ) four evenings a week at Carisbrook , and coaching at the Boys ' High School twice a week . |
| 16 | I looked down and saw a giant freshwater prawn almost a foot long . |
| 17 | An empty house just a mile or two outside St Margaret 's Hope village was put at the disposal of the Committee . |
| 18 | Also , there was a pleasant inn about a quarter of a mile away where I could get a room if the tide — in the way of tides — served at some merciless hour of the early morning . |
| 19 | I used to take my daughter , Emma , to children 's parties and I wandered around Central Park quite a lot . |
| 20 | Wick waits , remembering the herring more recently ; the lovely old buildings stare blankly over the vast harbour once a forest of masts . |
| 21 | An out-of-condition horse ie a horse just brought up from grass and worked too hard , too soon ; |
| 22 | Her owner died , and she was living rough , so when she bounced into our kitchen and made it clear that that was where she wanted to stay in it was hard to turn her out , even though Fizzy finds a young and very playful cat rather a trial . |
| 23 | Pachinko is a £3.8bn-a-year industry which has a Svengali-like hold over a quarter of the adult population . |
| 24 | Eventually , he found it , lying down on the Kālādika — an open , grassy plateau about a quarter of a mile outside the village — the nearest place where the cattle were taken to graze . |
| 25 | But is the 23-minute chat really a lovey-dovey phone call between Princess Di and an admirer ? |
| 26 | Wilson , speaking at an Annual Conference almost a quarter of a century later summarised the experience of 1887–1894. " 1887 was a fairly good year . |
| 27 | They fled the civil war there a year ago . |
| 28 | Most parents expect their children to be clean by the age of 2½ years , but 16 per cent of 3-year-olds still show signs of faecal incontinence once a week or more . |
| 29 | Melrose sneaked ahead through a Chalmers drop goal in the 65th minute only for McKechnie to nullify the effort in similar style barely a minute later . |
| 30 | I remember , again a few years ago , visiting India and buying one or two beautifully carved tables , which had obviously been carved by an individual spending quite a lot of time doing it , and I was impressed at that stage , rather naively perhaps , that if in fact I 'd bought a plain table , an uncarved one , it would have cost me about ten times as much , for the simple reason that that would require a milling machine which was not normally available , and such was the erm economy that it was cheaper for people to do this . |