Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adv] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My senses returned to me in perhaps an hour , when I beheld the roof burning . |
| 2 | ‘ It took me just over an hour to drive here from Edinburgh . ’ |
| 3 | We intend to arrive at the Radcliffe Infirmary at 10.30 am on Thursday 15 June and we would hope to complete the interview with you in approximately an hour . |
| 4 | They should be with you in about an hour … . ’ |
| 5 | Talk to you in about an hour them . ’ |
| 6 | All these measures are designed to give you as trouble-free an operation as possible . |
| 7 | Even young knocked a set of them out about an hour . |
| 8 | The bed would be well warmed by the time he got into it in about an hour from now . |
| 9 | Even if only for that reason , to regard it as simply an expression of industrial grievances is ludicrously inadequate . |
| 10 | The model for Marx himself was the Paris Commune of March-May 1871 , though he subsequently dismissed it as merely an uprising , and not even a socialist one ( Lichtheim 1964 , pp. 112–21 ) . |
| 11 | Recognition of the way in which this rhetoric drew upon previous discourses and defined the nature of authority relationships provides a more secure interpretation of the chronology of chartism 's rise and subsequent demise than can accounts describing it as merely an expression of acute social and economic deprivation . |
| 12 | The use of sonar by bats , dolphins and others is a prime example : to describe it as merely an extension of the sense of hearing is simplistic , especially in the case of dolphins . |
| 13 | Baroness Wootton tabled an amendment that , had it been accepted , would have made it no longer an offence ‘ to procure or conspire to commit a homosexual act which by virtue of this Act is not itself an offence ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ So I guess that makes me pretty much an Aussie ! |
| 15 | ‘ The beastly old woman has told me , quite bluntly , that she considers me very much an ex -wife . |
| 16 | With superstars Kathleen Battle and Itzhak Perlman lined up to give us just over an hour of Bach arias , one has to accept that almost whatever one says , artists of this calibre act upon collectors like the proverbial honeypot to the bee . |
| 17 | Not too far is about eight kilometres , a distance that takes us well over an hour , although time is irrelevant . |