Example sentences of "[adv] [det] a [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 Beside the school stood the little school house , and beside that a row of small cottages .
2 Only half a spoon of sugar per cup .
3 For instance , 100 kilos of lavender yields almost 3 litres of essential oil , whereas 100 kilos of rose petals can yield only half a litre of oil .
4 Had they been on deposit in US domestic banks , then naturally such a course of action would be open to them .
5 Perhaps such a range of activities seemed to endanger his chances of getting a degree but those who thought so had underestimated the strength of his neurotic energy .
6 with alcohol I mean alcohol is so much a part of the establishment of Oxford .
7 They have a very fiercely competitive system , and some people say that you have to start preparing for this at nursery school erm and it 's a question of going to the right schools , going to the right training colleges , though it 's not so much a question of going to university , although you do have to have a university degree in most cases , but they have special training establishments with a tough competition to get into it , and as a result of this the people who come out are very highly selected , and think of themselves as being very professional , very competent , they have a great deal more self confidence , in some ways , than our British civil servants do .
8 Good friends from the start , as well as matchless needlers of each other and trigger-happy competitors , they put together such a record of collisions and accidents and general ‘ brouhaha that by the time I reached the FI scene , both were considered as ‘ wild men ’ who needed some settling down .
9 It provides you with just half a gram of fibre .
10 It is lamentable that few butchers have the storage or the cash to put away half a hundredweight of potential turnover , watch it shrink by ten to fifteen per cent and charge the prices needed to make it all worthwhile .
11 Add approximately half a teaspoon of white granulated sugar to each bottle before capping it .
12 An elderly person should try to eat approximately half a pound of protein in some form in her diet every day .
13 And it is in terms of just such a co-existence of opposites that tragic myth arises .
14 Perhaps Webern was aiming at just such a lack of definition , and certainly many composers have been attracted by this very quality , as well as by his intellectualism , over the last thirty years .
15 Can , for example , consciousness avoid being somehow enriched by a pervasive quality , which could not possibly have occurred except as a quality of just such a state of consciousness , when it becomes consciousness of a beautiful object , instead of consciousness of something else , or ‘ mere consciousness ’ ?
16 If I look back on the people who have led me very well in the past , it was those who were able to create and sustain just such a sense of challenge .
17 The phenomena of overload and pressure constitute , for many teachers , just such a breach of some basic injunctions so that the situation of working under heavy demands itself leads , via the activation of these injunctions , to an assault on self-esteem .
18 As an apologist , he seems totally blind to the fact that the New Testament is just such a collection of old books , which require , if we are to understand them aright , patience and a willingness to listen to scholars who have meditated for a long time on the nature of the ( often quite puzzling and contradictory ) material which they contain .
19 It was just such a pattern of alternating brightness and darkness in a two-slit experiment with light that convinced Thomas Young in 1803 that light was a wave-like disturbance .
20 The Mamores are just such a group of mountains , containing 11 Munros placed magnificently between Loch Leven and Glen Nevis , and since there is easy access from both north and south you have all manner of decisions to take about where to start and finish , how many to do and in what order .
21 I teach just such a group of boys , only they come under the title ‘ Emotionally and Behaviourally Disturbed ’ .
22 It 's just such a waste of a life . ’
23 Bollinger own just such a patch of phylloxera-free vines in Aÿ ; whereas its high walls might well repel a small army , it remains a mystery why the little bug has not simply walked in under the gate .
24 When he was arrested in his house he found it impossible to parry any longer such a mass of events , and surrendered to them .
25 EXACTLY such a view of the attacks is now espoused on Sparrow Farm .
26 The Suffolk and Norfolk Trusts are anxious to protect the remaining precious heath land , of such particular interest to naturalists ; they already own a number of reserves and want to acquire more .
27 In under half a minute of whirring and clicking , the hood has unlocked itself and been folded away in its casing behind the back seats .
28 ‘ You get ever such a lot of meals out here , do n't you ? ’
29 I , I only want to mention about the swimming pool and swimming for pensioners and there ever such a lot of people go swimming .
30 Ever such a lot of people .
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