Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about 7.45 ( ship time ) , they heard a major explosion and a few minutes later a searing hot blast of gas roared over St Pierre and the ships lying off shore , capsizing the steam ship Grappler , and rolling the Roraima so severely that she lost all her masts and smokestacks . |
| 2 | Puzzled , the girl went off , and a few minutes later a grey haired woman in black entered the cubicle . |
| 3 | For one thing , if , as will be considered shortly , employment income is in some cases only a small proportion of a manager 's return from the company , then even with a significant correlation between remuneration and growth the growth motive would be cancelled out . |
| 4 | In some computers both a short and a long floating-point format and instruction set are provided , so that the programmer can trade precision against storage space . |
| 5 | Some years ago a newly-qualified private pilot , trained at a school which taught mixture-rich , did a quick conversion onto a smart 300 hp six-seat retractable and took three friends overseas for the day . |
| 6 | This latter is a longitudinal survey over a period of two and a half years following a structured sample of some 4,000 persons who registered as unemployed in May 1980 . |
| 7 | The typical industrial town was at this period still a medium-sized city , even by contemporary standards , though as it happened in central and eastern Europe some capital cities ( which tended to be very large ) also became major centres of manufacturing — e.g. Berlin , Vienna and St Petersburg . |
| 8 | Some days later a strange black thing was seen on the beach where I had first arrived in Lilliput . |
| 9 | Purcell declared that in his first set of trio sonatas he had ‘ faithfully endeavour 'd a just imitation of the most fam 'd Italian Masters ’ , and a few years later a French writer , Le Cerf de La Viéville , complained bitterly of ‘ cette fureur de composer des sonates á la manière italienne ’ . |
| 10 | In a short time you 'll receive your new multipoint cashcard , and just a few days later a Great Escapes brochure displaying over 180 excellent hotels to choose from , together with your two FREE Great Escapes vouchers . |
| 11 | A few days later a Soviet commentary from Kabul indicated the limits of such ‘ neutrality ‘ in asserting that the PDPA ’ will remain the chief mobilising and guiding force in the [ Afghan ] government of national unity , even after it becomes a coalition ’ . |
| 12 | A few days later a secret summit meeting of top Chinese and Vietnamese leaders took place in China , at which Cambodia was reportedly discussed in great detail [ see pp. 37712-13 ] . |
| 13 | A few days later a local man , George Fleming , wrote to Sir William to tell him that Mr. Millford had quitted all his pretensions in the le Fleming mines at Coniston to John Shaw , and that the next day Millford left the country ! |
| 14 | He returned a few days later a broken man . |
| 15 | Today she said : ‘ Naturally job losses tend to be highlighted but just a few weeks ago a new business opened creating 80 jobs . |
| 16 | If it is some time since you last exercised on a regular basis , spend a few weeks following a gentle stretching and warming-up routine . |
| 17 | Cos we had this mat there a long time and I think we picked . |
| 18 | You pot a red then a yellow then another red then a green … and so on . |
| 19 | The general election of 1945 was in some ways only a consequential recognition of the revolution which took place under , and inside , the Coalition Government at the height of World War II , and was announced to the outside world by a cloud of White Papers — on planning , social insurance , employment , a national health service — much as the election of a new Pope is first evinced by the smoke from the burning ballot papers . |
| 20 | Well done , excellent , erm , as you can see , in some ways quite a complex er , issue , and it 's one of those things really , I think to fully understand this , you got to sit down with a pencil and paper and work it through yourself . |
| 21 | On the city board last week we had yet another example rather a good project Trumpington disability project , very likely but it 's social services budget . |
| 22 | Nevertheless there was within this strategy still a special role for the luxury super-cinemas . |
| 23 | As a layer of gravel will be put into the base of the jar to help weight it down these slots should be just above this layer otherwise a strong powerhead could pull it into the pipe and block it . |
| 24 | When rifting leads to the rupture of a continent the original elevation of the landsurface above sea level prior to rifting inevitably creates some relief once a new base level is established . |
| 25 | otherwise you 'll put a few spaces then a new line and this will go . |
| 26 | A few seconds later a smug , exhausted man in an impeccable business suit went staggering past . |
| 27 | If the path had crossed this line then a clear surface would have been encountered some distance below the clouds . |
| 28 | The Franco-Prussian war was at this time still a recent memory , and German mathematicians quickly suspected that nationalistic sentiment lay behind the accusations directed at their adopted son . |
| 29 | At this time still a regular smoker , I made one film which made me drastically change my views about it . |
| 30 | Anyone wishing to advertise in this newsletter either a small ad such as these or a full ad ( full page or half page ) please contact any one of the newsletter team . |