Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is : if your father ran off with someone only a couple of years older than you , what this probably means is that he really wanted to run off with you . |
| 2 | ‘ When she was just seventeen she fell in love with someone quite a bit older than she was . |
| 3 | By the end of 1989 , however , the relentless way in which Kylie 's team tracked the ‘ pirates ’ had turned what had been a tide into something nearer a trickle . |
| 4 | As I 'm not the person to answer you very little to get , I 'm get into something quite a lot , you know ? |
| 5 | Tordjman noted that 9% of business came from IBM AS/400 systems , up from nothing only a couple of years ago . |
| 6 | Anyway , we wo n't look for anyone else a while . |