Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The band plays for quite a bit . |
| 2 | The baby sleeps for about an hour from 11 till 12 — I 'm afraid I read a book then — I do n't do very much housework ! |
| 3 | The Society has for over a year objected strongly to the plan under which the current arrangements for remunerating solicitors on the basis of work actually done are to be replaced by a standard fee scheme from April . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's very thick with the new master , Humphrey Morris , which counts for quite a lot , ’ Bridget said thoughtfully . |
| 5 | Looks like just a test strip . |
| 6 | The savage , debased , and bestial presences which attack virtue , may undermine its integrity because the potential to degenerate into villainy lies within even a nobleman . |
| 7 | However , although that was all in the past the memory of it lingers on whenever a match between the two countries is mentioned . |
| 8 | Their debts are now more than £6.5m and chairman Sir John Hall says he needs at least a week to draw up another rescue package before he and his fellow directors will be in a position to open talks with Kevin Keegan about the vacant manager 's position . |
| 9 | The Combsburgh High School stages a Christmas pantomime in which every young Jack and Jill ( or Wayne and Tracy as they are all called today ) has at least a walk-on part . |
| 10 | VMS also offers the best clustering facilities and host functionality , and has at least a measure of openness with the addition of VMS Posix compliance . |
| 11 | She has at least an hour a day on it . |
| 12 | Nothing happens for quite a while , then the rod-tip trembles , so I hold the rod in one hand and the line in the other . |
| 13 | It happens with only a handful of Members in their places and achieves little , if any , coverage by the media . |
| 14 | There is an activity which will take a great deal of your time as a student , which is of crucial importance to your success and which passes with hardly a mention on many courses — we refer , of course , to note-taking . |
| 15 | Pre-exposure to a novel flavour normally results in both a reduction of neophobia and in a reduction of the ability of that flavour to serve as a CS in flavour-aversion conditioning . |
| 16 | ‘ Every client I treat usually loses at least an inch — so it 's ideal if you 're going out for the evening and want to wear a specially tight outfit . ’ |
| 17 | In particular , Germany can be expected to become more outspoken in its demands that Britain surrenders at least a part of its ‘ budget rebate ’ , finally clinched by Mrs Thatcher in 1988 . |
| 18 | Also the grass grows for only a short-season , and the amount of hay which can be cut and dried varies from one year to the next . |
| 19 | According to that theory everything exists for only an instant and is then replaced by a facsimile of itself , so that it is but a series of momentary existences like the successive frames in a cine-camera film . |
| 20 | And er , if and when it 's published , there will be millions of words , I mean there are now , and I do n't how large it is now , it 's impossible to tell how large , erm , but just a couple of years , for example , amounts to over a quarter of a million words , so if you run that back to nineteen sixty nine , you see it is going to be one of the largest books ever written . |
| 21 | One such person who a number of us were worried about just did not answer letters or telephone calls for over a year . |
| 22 | And it does so in syntax which calls for quite a feat of structuring and interpreting . |
| 23 | The futuristic hopper calls for quite a bit of disguising . |
| 24 | It sounds like quite a skill . |
| 25 | Sounds like quite a compliment , what ? |
| 26 | It employs at least a quarter of a million people , in operations large and small . |
| 27 | It takes at least a couple of seconds before I recognize the last straw . |
| 28 | It takes at least an hour to get the system clear and dry again , and is a very frustrating problem , particularly if it occurs in a competition . |
| 29 | Michael Silverman himself , who handles assignments in the firm 's property sector — which now accounts for over a quarter of its business — has also established a reputation in the retail industry . |
| 30 | NEUE MITTE is in the centre of the town of Oberhausen ( population 225,000 ) , which is itself in the state of North Rhine Westphalia , the largest of the German states both in population ( 17.5 million ) and economic power , where it accounts for over a quarter of Germany 's gross national product . |