Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The advisory teacher and Betty disagreed in their views about how a task might be presented . |
2 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
3 | Jack walked through the quiet roads for almost an hour before he came to the bottom of Monument Hill . |
4 | For example , in ascertaining the image of a book on a distant plane , he adopted a procedure familiar to artists for almost a century . |
5 | I come from Holland and in Amsterdam toy robots ( especially Japanese ones and deleted ones from Holland ) have been accessories for over a year now . |
6 | The plasterer dressed in his working clothes of fustian splashed with white lime , seen in the Little Dorrit illustration saying goodbye to the Father of the Marshalsea , managed to settle with his creditors after only a week . |
7 | The left is putting up candidates for only a handful of school districts in bohemian areas like lower Manhattan ; and even in these areas , few teachers are likely to have the courage to teach the rainbow curriculum . |
8 | They remained on the cars for about a year , working regularly on route 16/18 . |
9 | Seeing as we 've had those words for about a week I should think we do know them then . |
10 | In London , a small group of clinical research nurses based in the St Peter 's group of hospitals and the Royal College of Surgeons has been meeting every two months for over a year , calling themselves the Clinical Research Nurses Association . |
11 | It is a massive concerto in four movements rather than the usual three — the addition of a scherzo emphasises that the work has the characteristics of both a concerto and a symphony . |
12 | Equally , the human considerations of where a settlement is placed in a region are as important as the physical characteristics of the landscape which must be allowed for . |
13 | I 'd hunch down under the covers with just an air-hole to breath through , and shelter there . |
14 | ‘ In some cases managers are stuck in the middle of supporters with only a couple of inches of space between them , ’ said chief executive John Camkin . |
15 | The same survey also says that ungrateful employers leave nearly all travel arrangements to their secretaries with scarcely a word of thanks . |
16 | First she tried dressmaking , which she liked and was good at , but after " six months with not a penny pay " , her father , a footman at the Caledonian Club , said she was n't " even getting the shoe leather " . |
17 | This posed the dissidents with quite a problem . |
18 | Mandy had warned her that storms came up fast on the lake , but nothing could have prepared her for blue skies being annihilated by black storm-clouds in just a matter of minutes . |
19 | Reduce sugary snacks to twice a day . |
20 | A meeting of the International Coffee Council was held in London on Sept. 27 , but ended by voting only to renew the International Coffee Agreement for a further 12 months without either an export quota system ( suspended in July 1989 — see p. 36836 ) or price support mechanisms . |
21 | This item of equipment enabled the rapid assembly features of the whole range of equipment to be fully exploited , and reduced the erection times for some major bridging operations , from what would normally be months to merely a matter of days . |
22 | Crops can be safely cocked or loaded onto tripods at least a day before they are fit to bale or cart : a most important factor in unsettled weather conditions . |
23 | In so doing , we shall begin to understand the difference between the two views of how a market economy works . |
24 | Watson 's remark in a BBC Radio 4 interview reiterated his views of almost a decade earlier . |
25 | It happens that what we 've done is we 've taken it and hung it on the starlight , the magic of starlight — how wonderful it is , how much you can tell from just looking at a star through a telescope and measuring the light that comes out of it , and this takes us into realms of why a star shines ; what do you mean by time when you go back millions of years into the universe lifetime ; what do you mean , why do stars shine with different colours . |
26 | Although many people possess the psychotic traits we have been discussing , only a few will show the signs of even a borderline disorder and still fewer will develop a full-blown psychotic illness . |
27 | For the more serious , a twin-sailed transporter had already been devised that was capable of taking loads of around a kilo ( 2.21 b ) . |
28 | There is a tendency of course for some old people to expect to have long telephone calls of even an hour or more with their |
29 | We 'll certainly be putting firms in touch with others so that they can learn quickly from other experiences as quite a network of firms grew up at the seminar . |
30 | He continued to ask visitors for quite a while about their fainting habits . |