Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It moves slowly , wearily and as if to ensure that you understand that it is tired ; it goes only a few degrees above the horizon , making a long , low arc . |
| 2 | CROSS A FAST TYPIST WITH A WINDOWS WORD PROCESSOR AND THE CHANCES ARE YOU 'LL SEE SOME WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH AS THE PROGRAM CHUGS ALONG A FEW PACES BEHIND THE USER . |
| 3 | Each produces only a few drops of nectar at a time . |
| 4 | Today the surface of the peat fens lies only a few feet above or below sea-level . |
| 5 | The village of Artagnan , indeed , lies only a few miles from Montaner , to the north-east ; and it was one of the seventeenth-century counts of this Artagnan whom Alex Andre pumas , once again , took and elevated into his fictional hero . |
| 6 | A hundred watt light bulb has only a hundred gallons a minute going through , okay ? |
| 7 | In polygamous monkeys each male has only a few females , but with species such as fur seals , the harems can be huge — up to one hundred females . |
| 8 | With me it has done well not only in a sheltered , sunny position ( the best conditions ) but also in a place where it has only a few hours of direct sunshine each day . |
| 9 | Lord Beaverbrook has only a few weeks to sort out his finances . |
| 10 | The infamous Berlin Wall now has only a few vestiges remaining . |
| 11 | The county-border area contains only a few villages with old English names like Potton , Tadlow , Wrestlingworth and Gamlingay . |
| 12 | Now , 18 days after the attacker was put behind bars , he 's been allowed to return home for a visit and he lives just a few doors away from the Strongs . |
| 13 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 14 | How come we can send a spacecraft to Venus or write the Bible on a microchip yet remain incapable of operating a sophisticated transportation network when the temperature drops just a few degrees below zero ? |
| 15 | The answer to this question has not a few repercussions in the social world that sociologists study — often for purely secular reasons . |
| 16 | She earns between $800 and $1,000 a month , lives in one furnished room , and has just a few possessions of her own . |
| 17 | Society of Antiquaries ( London ) The Society ( founded in 1701 ) has nearly a thousand manuscripts dating from 1100 onwards , representing every branch of antiquarian studies . |
| 18 | Cousin Island also has a small population of giant tortoises , including ‘ George ’ said to be 150 years old and one of the survivors of the endemic subspecies , the others having been introduced from the island of Aldabra which lies about a thousand kilometres away off the north of Madagascar . |
| 19 | Lombard North Central plc is one of the country 's largest finance houses and its legal department has about a dozen lawyers , both solicitors and barristers . |
| 20 | According to the Times , First Peson is to be headed by Rosing , has about a dozen employees , and is presently in process of moving into new premises in Palo Alto . |
| 21 | Each sample contains approximately 2,000 words and the complete corpus contains about a million words . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not a great one for carting them all around the country , so Will only contests about a dozen competitions a year ’ . |
| 23 | Trinidad , which now has around a million inhabitants , has also produced far more than its fair share , and it is interesting to note the differences between the two . |
| 24 | This was first published in 1968 , is still in print — and has over a hundred illustrations . |
| 25 | It began with a budget of Ffr10 million p.a. and now disposes of 300 million ; it has over a thousand members , many of them professionals but forced to wander from excavation to excavation , without the opportunity to specialise . |
| 26 | Brockworth School in Gloucestershire has over a thousand pupils and the numbers are rising . |
| 27 | Brockworth School in Gloucestershire has over a thousand pupils and the numbers are rising . |
| 28 | ( 3 ) The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers ' ( APIL ) database contains over a thousand experts who have been recommended by APIL members around the country . |
| 29 | Niki eats up a few places and then finds himself at the back of a bunch of five cars behind Prost , who is running second . |
| 30 | Lovell ( 1986 ) reviews around a dozen papers which have carried out tests of the rational expectations hypothesis using direct survey data . |