Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bruce Springsteen has been pulling in crowds for more than a decade . |
| 2 | ‘ The Cosmological Pictures ’ , which have been winding through West and East European cities for more than a year , arrive at the Tate Gallery , Liverpool , at the end of next month , and Gilbert & George will be pioneering in China with exhibitions in Shanghai and Peking next autumn . |
| 3 | This is a scandal not merely because police stations are not equipped to hold prisoners for more than a day or two — everyone from Lord Justice Woolf to the Inspectorate Constabulary has condemned the present arrangement — but because police cells are now being used as a convenience to enable the Prison Department and the Home Secretary to claim that overcrowding in prisons is diminished . |
| 4 | Although Mexico accounted in recent times for more than a third of the world 's production of silver , the extraction and working of the metal began there only late in the first millennium A.D. |
| 5 | Draft evasion had already been going largely unpunished by Lithuanian authorities for more than a year , and had been steadily increasing : on Feb. 16 more than 5,000 conscripts attending independence day rallies had publicly returned their call-up cards . |
| 6 | But he gave the lion 's share of the credit for the victory to Snodin , playing his first full 90 minutes for two and a half years after a series of hamstring and knee injuries put his career in doubt . |
| 7 | The move took place in early December and we settled in so quickly that it is difficult to believe we have been in our new offices for less than a year . |
| 8 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 9 | There was no room in either of the two books for more than a suggestion of the way a woman might be changed by a complicated political and personal dilemma . |
| 10 | Magistrates in Bootle heard that library staff had attempted to retrieve some books for more than a year . |
| 11 | List Relationships can list full or partial tight relationships for all or a part of the database . |
| 12 | Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer . |
| 13 | ‘ In the eyes of all but a small percentage of Irish people , the so-called armed struggle has degenerated into a campaign of sickening sectarian killing of fellow Irish men and women . ’ |
| 14 | There is a story that when the Ordnance Surveyors started to revise the original primary triangulation of the United Kingdom , they looked up the notebooks of more than a century previously . |
| 15 | He must be a physician , having books of physick and a herbal by him . |
| 16 | The boiler is 120lbs per square inch pressure with two cylinders of three and a half inch diameter , four and a quarter stroke working on driving wheels which are ten inch . |
| 17 | One school clung to the dream of revanche , the recovery of the lost provinces of 1871 and a Rhine frontier . |
| 18 | Labour say the authority will be hard pressed to keep the promise when 13 of the authority 's consultants have waiting lists of more than a year . |
| 19 | In 1905 there appeared in Cardiff an unregistered union noted by the Board of Trade as the " British Stewards , Cooks , Butchers and Bakers " which had three branches in 1907 and a membership of a little over 2,000 . |
| 20 | In October GCE and Fiat merged while Renault 's share cross-holding with Volvo was accompanied with the prediction in November 1990 of 2,500 job losses in 1991 and a further 5,600 job losses in 1992 . |
| 21 | The USSR became a regular participant in international conference diplomacy at the Genoa Conference in 1922 ; initially hostile to the League of Nations , describing it in 1919 as a ‘ Holy Alliance of capitalists for the suppression of the workers ' revolution ’ , the USSR became a member in 1934 and was in turn a founding member of the United Nations in 1945 and a prominent member of its Security Council . |
| 22 | Schools in all but a few pockets of the county are expected to find enough people willing to stand for election in September when 1,600 governors are due to be appointed . |
| 23 | This was but a temporary setback , for after a rest and a defeat on his return he proceeded to win his next nine races , completely outclassing his rivals at distances from nine furlongs to two and a quarter miles . |
| 24 | Some sufferers , again particularly the juveniles and also those suffering severely from eating disorders — compulsive over-eating , anorexia or bulimia — may require long-term ( from a minimum of three months to more than a year ) support in a half-way house . |
| 25 | Royal Dutch/Shell , the Teikoku Oil Co of Japan , Benton Oil and Gas of the USA , and two private Venezuelan companies , Vincler and Lingoteras , were expected to invest US$480,000,000 in the oilfields by 1996 and a total of US$720,000,000 over the following decade . |
| 26 | Those in arrears by more than a year rose from 5,000 to 21,000 between 1982 and 1988 . |
| 27 | It 's best to do these on the track , but if one is not available , you can do repeats of two and a half to three and a half minutes on the road . |
| 28 | The details are immaterial , and it is sufficient for present purposes to say that they were concerned with two subjects , namely the accounts of Carrian and a building called Gammon House . |
| 29 | Under the 1944 and 1948 Education Acts such schools would have been illegal : pupils must be transferred from primary to secondary between the ages of ten and a half and twelve . |
| 30 | English China Clays , a company formed at the end of the First World War , inherited the wastelands of more than a century of china clay workings , and then increased their extent . |