Example sentences of "[adv] to a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 In the Sandleford warren no rabbit of his age would have been asked to tell a story , except perhaps to a few friends alone .
2 By the time of its completion the company 's assets were climbing close to a billion dollars .
3 Dogs can take you directly to a few kilos of heroin welded into the chassis , but they 're not too good at sniffing out a Renoir .
4 The software includes a terminal emulator that integrates Unix applications with Windows by supporting MS Windows Dynamic Data Exchange to transfer data from a Unix session directly to a running Windows application .
5 So that although reference is made here to a remote children 's colony , its social significance had much wider reverberations , as indeed did the pedagogical theories worked out by Makarenko .
6 Karl , 62 , was sentenced in Bangkok five years ago to a HUNDRED years for murdering his Thai bride-to-be , but was released under an amnesty marking Queen Sirikit 's 60th birthday .
7 And once they 've been picked , cut the foliage back hard to a few centimetres from the crowns to stimulate new growth .
8 They took us to the police station and then to a battered women 's house at about 2 a.m .
9 Irish rugby is notorious for peaks and troughs , so look forward to a few peaks from now onwards .
10 And although she 'd been sad to be leaving her family behind , she had been looking forward to a few weeks ' holiday and then — a new job , a new life .
11 For this purpose I choose the country depicted on Sheet 145 of the Ordnance Survey ( sixth edition ) , which runs from the edge of Oxford northwards to a few miles beyond Banbury , and from Chipping Norton on the west to beyond Brackley in Northamptonshire on the east .
  Next page