Example sentences of "[num] [noun] but [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The match looked set to be a close affair when the two neighbours were level pegging after three heats but then a run of four successive 5–1s for the home side virtually settled the issue . |
| 2 | Day-trippers and weekend visitors have filled the streets and riverside paths every summer for more than sixty years but only a tiny percentage are aware of the village 's remarkable gastronomic distinction , about which most communities would continually drum up a publicity fanfare . |
| 3 | After that she was installed ante post favourite for next season 's One Thousand Guineas but then a pulled muscle forced her to miss her next outing , the Lowther Stakes at York . |
| 4 | He got up and down again and this was a real tough hole , 475 yards but still a par-4 . |
| 5 | The oldest inhabitants were black , though they were not one people but quite a variety . |
| 6 | She went out of one door but then a sheet of flame came down and blocked me , so I had to look for another way out . ’ |
| 7 | In 1688 Townesend married Anne , daughter of Henry Brian , gentleman , of Witney : they had at least eight children but only a son John and a daughter survived their father , the former carrying on the business . |