Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the music should go on past 10 o'clock for even a minute or two , Muriel is out and about . |
| 2 | Just leave it on basically for about an hour as long as you 're having a conversation |
| 3 | However , Lucy managed to convey that she intended to stay for several days , or perhaps for even a week . |
| 4 | She wore a very sparkly large diamond engagement ring and had done so for about a year . |
| 5 | My friend , who has stayed at the cottage before , is going up 24th or so for about a week , so there will be her rent @ £7 per day and electricity @ 10p per unit ( to cover standing charges etc ) to come to you in due course . |
| 6 | Those who did receive schooling did so for perhaps a year or two , often much less , at some point in their childhood , with hardly any attending school beyond the age of ten or eleven . |
| 7 | He loves you , he 's a good bloke , you 've been together for over a year . |
| 8 | After circling and playing together for probably a minute , the fins had lazily disappeared and Yanto had gone home a mystified man . |
| 9 | and , and if she 's already scared of his temper and they 've not even lived together , well they have lived together for quite a while actually so I mean it 's not like they do n't know each other but once they 're married and they 've been married for a couple of years I reckon , and he starts thinking of her more as a possession sort of thing I can , I can really imagine |
| 10 | There 's just one thing : what happens to band who 've been together for virtually a decade ? |
| 11 | They had practised together for only an hour , yet it seemed like an eternity . |
| 12 | It 's probably only worth about a tenner . |
| 13 | Steroids , which attack the root of asthma , are widely recommended by doctors but they also have side effects and take effect only after about a week . |
| 14 | So after about a year , eighteen month , I could see by his dictates that we were n't going to have worker 's control in the real sense of the word . |
| 15 | When , in 1989 , Princess Anne and her husband , Mark Phillips , separated , they did so with scarcely a murmur , two people whose marital problems were half understood by millions . |
| 16 | thank you so within either a year or maybe something approaching two years of the existence of the brochures with those words in you raise the concern , that it might be misleading if left in |
| 17 | And if self aware role modelling in medicine were to include a declared abstention from all the quiet words , phone calls , and fixings of the present highly selective mechanisms of patronage then the expectations of medical students and junior doctors , especially women and those from ethnic minorities , could be transformed , perhaps within only a generation or two . |
| 18 | There is a strong temptation to paste what I access into what I 'm writing , or perhaps to forward a copy instantly to a colleague with a dozen taps on the keyboard . |
| 19 | Going away for just a day before Christmas to visit a friend or relative , just to let Alan Markby and Laura Danby know that she did have someone else , would bolster her morale . |
| 20 | He himself would be away for nearly a month : already his appointment diary for his time in the States was crammed . |
| 21 | The Davidsons ' publicist Clifford Elson said last night : ‘ Jim 's going away for quite a while over Christmas which will give the situation a chance to defuse . |
| 22 | ‘ But you must realise that Stella could be away for quite a period — especially if her appendix is to be removed . ’ |
| 23 | And then again , if I 've been shut away in the Prison of Hostages , I expect I 've been away for quite a time . |
| 24 | They presented a target thus for only a matter of seconds , though three of them fell in that time ; then they were hand-to-hand and at blows with the prince 's bodyguard and this was battle as it had formerly been understood between knights , and the hovering archers were crippled and out of the fight . |
| 25 | After going comfortably for nearly an hour Pat Connolly reported that he was losing engine pressure . |
| 26 | She was outside for just a second . |
| 27 | I recall the time when Daddy , had been very ill with pernicious anaemia and had to stay indoors for quite a while . |
| 28 | You do n't say ? wrecking one cherished wish after another , until she was reduced to longing desperately for just an end to the regular death of the street-corner parting , the fear and loneliness of the long walk home . |
| 29 | Already for nearly a century the syllabub had been keeping company with the trifle , and in due course the trifle came to reign in the syllabub 's stead ; and before long the party pudding of the English was not any more the fragile whip of cream contained in a little glass , concealing within its innocent white froth a powerful alcoholic punch , but a built-up confection of sponge fingers and ratafias soaked in wine and brandy , spread with jam , clothed in an egg-and-cream custard , topped with a syllabub and strewn with little coloured comfits . |
| 30 | When we came to it , the militia had been there already for about an hour . |