Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He continued to ask visitors for quite a while about their fainting habits . |
| 32 | The impact of the oil crisis and its associated inflation led to the first actual decline in income for OECD countries for over a quarter of a century . |
| 33 | Yet Glasgow has been cultivating a townspace of such experiences for nearly a decade . |
| 34 | But , ironically , the longer-term explanation lies in the restrictions Washington has maintained on Japanese car imports for almost a decade . |
| 35 | A method which you may prefer is to pre-record your commentary section-by-section onto a sound tape ; this tape is not cued , and the sections follow each other with gaps of only a second or so between them . |
| 36 | In the three long observations , models with only a power-law component give values of with a probability at or below 10% in two out of three cases . |
| 37 | The next Bishop of Rochester to reside here at Halling was Laurence but this is not to say that the palace was vacant during these intervening years for as we have noticed earlier monks of Rochester lived here for periods with possibly a steward to maintain the household . |
| 38 | Left : Fish of this size and quality were all grown on from 4–6 inch youngsters in only a year . |
| 39 | Do n't slip into your racing shoes until around an hour before the start ; a comfortable pair of well-worn trainers will suffice for now . |
| 40 | She jumped out and ran the few feet to where a man was struggling out of his jeep , which had tipped onto one side with the two left wheels suspended above the open gully . |
| 41 | Under these circumstances at least a gesture towards listening to the local people has been made . |
| 42 | Firms from the Netherlands have increased their ownership of British subsidiaries by nearly a quarter . |
| 43 | Amazingly , all Sony 's competitors doubt the success of the mini-portable and fail to come up with rival versions for almost a year . |
| 44 | Their trip , which took 38 hours instead of the normal 22 , coincided with 60ft waves and the worst North Sea gales for almost a century . |
| 45 | She had ideas about how a toy shop should be run in these times . |
| 46 | That plan must rest , in the first place , on an audit , and in its advice to governors , heads and teachers ( DES 1989e ) the School Development Plans Project ( SDPP ) gave some ideas about how a school would undertake that . |
| 47 | Many students , moreoever , have their own ideas about how a language is best developed , and it may be counterproductive for a teacher to overrule them . |
| 48 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter , which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders it receives in the intervening weeks . |
| 49 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders they get in the intervening weeks . |
| 50 | The analytical core which Keynes shared with Pigou did not extend to their respective prognoses of how an economy responds to excess supply in the labour market . |
| 51 | The truss rod nut would also be extremely awkward to adjust in any kind of a hurry , but considering some players ' sketchy ideas of how a truss rod works , perhaps that 's no bad thing . |
| 52 | Those who come to it fresh , without preconceived ideas of how a spreadsheet works , will find it a dream . |
| 53 | writes from : THE funerals of both a soldier blown up in Ulster and a young mother murdered on Wimbledon Common were marked by the same poem : |
| 54 | Gel retardation was done in F9 EC whole cell extracts with either a class 1 ( tracks 1–4 ) or class 2 ( tracks 5–8 ) binding site in the presence of either preimmune or immune anti-peptide A ( antiserum 4 ) , together with either unrelated peptide 1 ( tracks 3 and 7 ) or peptide A ( tracks 4 and 8 ) . |
| 55 | Almost any substantial group of buildings with perhaps a shop , or village hall is today called a village and this leads to great confusion , both for researchers looking at earlier arrangements , and for the inhabitants for whom finer definitions are not needed . |
| 56 | These effects can hardly explain a shift in median age from 55 years to 63 years in only a decade , however . |
| 57 | The Victorian-built and now rundown Oxford prison WAS to close , together with 5 other jails within just a matter of weeks . |
| 58 | It is these laws which have been used to humiliate tired and defenceless visitors , to deport workers without even a hearing , to lock innocent people in prison and brand them criminals , and to provide employers with a work-force made powerless through legislation . |
| 59 | The background of the the the subject is , as far as I can work out , that the council main approaches to two housing associations with a view to obtaining their erm ideas on how a scheme to transfer void properties to the housing associations would work . |
| 60 | Thus mild steel structures , for instance , can generally put up with cracks at least a metre long without breaking . |