Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is therefore opportunity for only a trickle of legislation from this source and , for reasons stated below , even less than that flows . |
| 2 | Let's continue the story for just a moment in a ridiculous way . |
| 3 | Moszkowicz added : ‘ I served on the Darlington board for about a year because I misread Football League rules . |
| 4 | If the right hon. Gentleman would study recent CBI surveys he would see that domestic and export orders are rising , that export orders are at their highest level for over a year and that there is confirmation that business conditions are beginning to improve in line with confidence . |
| 5 | Unemployment has fallen to its lowest level for almost a year . |
| 6 | Yet from 10.15p.m. the line bites began and bream had been rolling steadily along the familiar route for almost an hour . |
| 7 | I 've been into this look for quite a while now , I know the rules . |
| 8 | And of course for quite a while we were from . |
| 9 | Encore has been shipping Multimax superminis for over a year and has now sold ( and shipped ) two to the OSF 's development lab in Boston . |
| 10 | A specialist in seventeenth-century Dutch art , he taught at Columbia University for nearly a decade . |
| 11 | I 've just given the whole of life a miss for nearly a year , all because of bloody Adrian . |
| 12 | I 've been working with the deaf-aid for over a week , for God 's sake , and I realised how much I rely on it . |
| 13 | Hong Kong has been hanging in suspense for almost a fortnight over if Mr Patten would drop a self-imposed deadline for publication at the end of February so that talks with China could resume . |
| 14 | Even work experience for just a fortnight — such as an Earthwatch project — is worthwhile . |
| 15 | He had been a share salesman for just a week and a half , and the deal put £200 in his pocket . |
| 16 | MANSUR MUHAMMAD AHMED RAJIH : a 34-year-old writer and poet , he was held without charge or trial for over a year before being sentenced to death in 1984 after an unfair trial on false criminal charges . |
| 17 | Those projects observed had been in progress for over a year and most had established a good opening strategy as might be expected from their ability to identify schools with good potential for change . |
| 18 | As a result , it was out of action for over a year . |
| 19 | They also acknowledged that operators had initially delayed taking action for nearly an hour , in the belief that a gauge which showed an increase in radioactivity in the secondary system might be giving false readings . |
| 20 | Almost before he got used to wearing the famous blue and white , Agnew suffered an injury which put him on crutches and out of action for virtually a season . |
| 21 | But I really like the bass ; it feels as solid as a rock and represents a more worthwhile investment for not a lot more money . |
| 22 | Such omission is completely in sympathy with the trend in physical geography for nearly a century after Man and Nature . |
| 23 | Whereas most large mammals can survive no more than 14 per cent water loss , the camel can survive an amazing 30 per cent loss for over a week quite easily . |
| 24 | the opera by Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli ( 1752–1837 ) , Giulietta e Romeo , first performed at La Scala , Milan , in 1796 , and which remained popular all over the continent for almost a century . |
| 25 | In this case , the idea for a new church was in the leader 's mind for over a year before conception . |
| 26 | They are meant to plug the gaps in the trade embargo that has been in force for almost a year . |
| 27 | It is sold as a paste and is hardened by light ; once the paste is in the cavity , the dentist sets it by shining a blue light for about a minute . |
| 28 | In apparent agreement with this idea , some subjects appeared to benefit from continual advances of their sleep/wake rhythm ( as though they were continually flying eastward ) or by being woken temporarily at about four o'clock in the morning to receive a burst of bright light for about an hour . |
| 29 | A pleasure steamer has made the first day trip down the Severn to the Devon coast for almost a century . |
| 30 | He continued to hide this condition for almost a week , until he collapsed during a break in rehearsals , and was rushed to hospital . |