Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why wo n't she take up the offer of just a fortnight 's short-stay ? |
| 2 | Choose ripe shoots from this year 's growth of roughly a pencil 's thickness . |
| 3 | Grace Reginiano of Isrotel and Tennis World 's Fiona Taylor accompanied the group on its trip — the culmination of over a year 's doubles ' competition from over 500 tennis World readers . |
| 4 | ‘ A trusted formula for me is a 57 or a Beyer 201 , with perhaps a Neumann U87 in the room — but definitely not too close to the cab . |
| 5 | With only a widow 's pension , where could she go ? |
| 6 | But there was more to it than that as Swansea soared from Fourth Division to First with only a season 's rest . |
| 7 | Q. I am a beginner with around a year 's experience and I set up a 48″ × 21″ × 18″ ( water height ) marine tank last December . |
| 8 | So I had a job for about a year er in a fruit shop and then I did n't like the Saturday work |
| 9 | I 've got a classic on the T V in a few , in perhaps a hour 's time . |
| 10 | A man stole a £5,500 caravan from outside a vets ' practice for his homeless girlfriend York Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 11 | So , she 's very keen , so she 's coming in quite a bit erm , over the first half term and she hopes that 'll continue during the year , not particularly with just the year eight people but maybe get other people to involve themselves as well . |
| 12 | In one case it stretched to below a woman 's knees and in another the pubic hair was gathered into a tasteful plait that reached behind her back . |
| 13 | And that should give us food for thought ; while his uncle William in Frome , amongst others , was receiving poor relief at the rate of between 1s. and 4s. per fortnight , here , in the same year of 1799 , the nephew-made-good was handing over what amounted to about a year 's dole payments to join an exclusive club in the metropolis . |
| 14 | The difficulty for the Company in England was that establishing someone who had crossed to North America took an initial investment equal to about a year 's wages , so the investors had to keep on providing supplies without seeing any sign of how the colony would repay them . |
| 15 | Now the tokens are actually worth quite a lot in in terms of consumer durables . |
| 16 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 17 | On its own the IRR of a project gives no information about either a project 's present value or the effect of its acceptance on the value of the firm . |
| 18 | The experience he has gained in the mines at immediately a man g a man who has been in the mines goes down there again his er n er he gives himself away , because , just because of the experiences . |
| 19 | It is not unusual for the sea to be at least a mile 's walk from the coastline sand-dunes . |
| 20 | • hold at least a Master 's degree or equivalent |
| 21 | But basically I think most courses now , not sure there 's actually a legal requirement , I do n't think it is , but most of them want a at least a year 's sort of full time experience in erm , you know , d dealing with underprivileged people really and their problems and people who ca n't cope for one reason or another , and how er y you can er er sort of help them and what sort of relationship you can build with them and so on , and how |
| 22 | Erm , I would have to say that 's going to be in the range of five hundred to six hundred , and very much depends to some extent on what happens in the winter months , and I 'm sorry to keep stressing this point , but we have n't yet got twelve months ' experience of operating this particular change , and until we 've got at least a year 's experience , and I think one would have to say , that some of the figures need to be portioned , but equally , you ca n't afford to be too cavalier in terms of your assumptions about that demand might reduce to , and I 'll touch a little later on how you control expenditure in those terms . |
| 23 | I 'd have felt so much better if this person had at least a year 's sentence . |
| 24 | Corbetts , if you must , but the new bagging fashion is to find mountains that only the cognoscenti know and take at least a day 's walk to get into . |
| 25 | Back at our table with the promise of at least a half-hour 's respite while Gino dried his trousers , I brought Sorrel and Werewolf up to date . |
| 26 | Spoken to a satisfactory minimum number of candidates being presented at an appropriate fee , SEFIC examinations can be carried out anywhere in the world , on any suitable premises and at any time of the year ( with at least a month 's notice ) . |
| 27 | Shildon-born Mr Jackson said : ‘ To be a good instructor you must have had at least a season 's skiing on snow and if you want to get basic qualifications you would be charged around £3,000 . ’ |
| 28 | Usually they 're silly things were you have n't quite clipped in correctly to the rope and suddenly , zap , you realise you 've missed death by only a hair 's breadth . |
| 29 | Theorists have categorized these activities into a sequential series but in practice they produce a complex interrelationship ( as shown in Chapter I ) that is influenced by both a company 's products and structure . |
| 30 | In an elegant and scholarly catalogue entry , Christie 's included a reproduction of the relevant pages from the catalogue of the Aumont sale which lasted nine days and was preceded by nearly a month 's viewing . |