Example sentences of "[noun prp] a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a strong chase behind and the leaders never got more than a 25-second gap but they held on to the finish where Scott was strongest up the hill to 21 win by a second with Downey a further 14 seconds back . |
| 2 | Carl Llewellyn , 26 , the winning substitute , says he owes Adams a few big drinks after the advice he received on how to ride Party Politics . |
| 3 | After that the couple spoke to each other regularly by phone , exchanged letters , and Peterborough-based Chris even sent Heather a dozen red roses . |
| 4 | The courses have cost Zeneca a hundred thousand pounds so far but the company believes to ignore the problem , particularly at executive level , would be costlier still . |
| 5 | I got the drinks in and discovered that Dosh and Freddie were flat-sharing in Willesden and were both typists up from darkest Bedfordshire a mere three months before in search of bright lights , word-processor experience and more than six grand a year . |
| 6 | By March 1965 3,000 US Marines had landed in the North and by May an additional 72,000 troops had been sent in . |
| 7 | Leading scorer Stan Collimore a massive six feet four and his sidekick Robert Rozario a diminutive six foot three . |
| 8 | ‘ So if you were to take the TARDIS a few hundred years back , ’ she said , ‘ what could you do ? ’ |
| 9 | By the end of November an estimated 1,000 civilians had been killed in the latest fighting and up to 6,000 injured . |
| 10 | ‘ News of the massacre of the children reached Sandweg a full two hours before the invaders . |
| 11 | He was able to join a rescue party which set off by boat from Fort-de-France , and he returned to St Pierre a scant twenty-four hours after he had left . |
| 12 | At Hill 's auction in Ballyclare a Victorian inlaid games table sold for £550 ; a pine-cased grandfather clock , went at £500 and a Corinthian pillar oil lamp , £310 . |
| 13 | As soon as she had introduced them , the doctor began to ask Moore a great many questions . |
| 14 | because it 'd give Mike an extra few days anyway , could actually have |
| 15 | Rodrigo was very fond of his Spanish mother who , though she had lived in Britain a great many years , spoke scarcely a word of English . |
| 16 | The certificate was signed by Coleman a mere 18 days after Moorcroft 's resignation . |
| 17 | Schoener 's globe of the world then known shows Japan a few hundred miles off Mexico ; the historian López de Gomara says that in his negotiations with the Emperor Magellan always insisted that the Moluccas were ‘ no great distance from Panama , and the Gulf of San Miguel which Vasco Núñez de Balboa discovered ’ . |
| 18 | It took Prescott a good ten minutes to describe the full pointlessness of his life as a stockbroker and man-about-town before the combined effects of drink and sustaining a conversation took their toll and he declined into a glazed , sullen silence . |
| 19 | er , given the amount of poverty and misery that there is in this country , can we really justify , or can we really say that by paying Prince Andrew a hundred thousand pounds a year we 're being cost effective ? |
| 20 | Kom Ombo and Edfu , like the fitness of my charges , have been and gone , and now at Esna a few determined explorers rattle by horse-drawn carriage towards the town centre at 6am . |
| 21 | After receiving the evidence , the insurance company offered Susan a few hundred pounds compensation . |
| 22 | Both finished third — Mr Nellist within 1,351 of the Coventry South East winner and Mr Fields a decisive 12,000 votes behind . |
| 23 | De Lorenzi had led at seven under par after opening rounds of 67 and 70 , three strokes clear of Sweden 's Sofia Gronberg with Davies a further three strokes behind . |
| 24 | He followed in his own limousine — then drove the Panhard a few hundred yards to the finishing line . |
| 25 | Full Intercity rail services are available , with London a mere 3½ hours away . |
| 26 | There was then a nervous wait for Ray Younger who finished in 35th place as fourth scorer to give them victory by two points over North Belfast with Albertville a further two points adrift . |
| 27 | Brown went on to complete her personal double triumph in the 200m individual medley with consummate ease as she completed the event in 2.23.87 with Gail Hamilton of Ards a massive five-and-a-half seconds behind . |
| 28 | The Scot started the final round leading Rystrom by one shot and Woosnam by two , with Broadhurst a further three shots adrift . |
| 29 | There was an ancient church called Fablan Fawr a few hundred yards away from his house , so Beverley called his new house Fablan Fawr too . |
| 30 | If music were important then choirs needed to be improved ; in Gloucestershire a Nonconformist United Choirs Union was formed in 1892 and music festivals were held in Gloucester in 1892 and 1894 . |