Example sentences of "[noun pl] from a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lambert glimpsed a flickering of muzzle-flames from a hundred machine-guns , and heard the deft tug of bullets speckling his machine , with sometimes a spang ! as a round struck metal . |
| 2 | In some cases , a company may need a dozen licences from a dozen universities for any particular genetically-engineered product . |
| 3 | L3 is a collaboration between institutes and universities from a dozen countries , with more than 600 physicists taking part . |
| 4 | The competition attracted pilots from a dozen nations and , by all accounts , had a touch of ‘ Those Magnificent Men … ’ about the proceedings . |
| 5 | Dazed with the heat and noise , sickened by the stink of oil and sweat , eyes , ears and throats filled with a soft clogging dust like the seeds from a million dandelions , they toiled on and on . |
| 6 | Our roads were clean and unpolluted , and in our cities the air was not polluted with gases from a million exhaust-pipes . |
| 7 | These new words can be proved by taking statements from an aggrieved person(s) to say how harassed , alarmed or distressed he was . |
| 8 | The Buchs site offers large scale production facilities , now approved to GMP standard , manufacturing over 4,000 products in quantities from a few grammes to small tonnage . |
| 9 | Native speakers are accustomed to making a lot of assumptions from a few clues . |
| 10 | Thieves broke into two premises in Drury Lane , Braintree , and attempted to get into a third.They stole £1,000 in cash and cheques from a dry cleaners , and £130 cash from a hairdressers . |
| 11 | The UK boasts more than 50 machines from a dozen manufacturers in the class which covers everything from outright super sports machines to all rounders , custom bikes and dual purpose on/off road trail bikes . |
| 12 | But experts from a theatrical pyrotechnics company and the police are happy . |
| 13 | Market loans consist of a variety of different loans from a few hours to a few weeks , mainly to other banks or to financial institutions such as the discount houses which specialize in short-term lending and borrowing . |
| 14 | In many cases , as illustrated by examples from a few industries , the issue of the advantages of scale has shifted from the level of the factory to the firm as a whole . |
| 15 | This database would be created by three S3 pupils from a General Studies class . |
| 16 | Indeed , it is possible to obtain organic oils from a few suppliers ( see page 131 ) , but these essences are considerably more expensive than those from plants grown with chemical fertilizers and sprayed with non-organic pesticides . |
| 17 | It looks like scratchings from an old birds ' nest . |