Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Army bomb disposal experts arrived at Dorton late this afternoon to join the search of the trackside that had already been going on for four and a half hours . |
| 2 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 3 | Other remedies will be needed if Aconite does not suffice and the condition lingers or continues on for more than a day or so . |
| 4 | A routine was established which went on for more than a year . |
| 5 | This has always been strongest in the southern States , with their history of slavery and the implicit belief , well-established in the local culture , in black inferiority — a belief capitalized on for more than a century after the Civil War by the Democrats ( see below ) . |
| 6 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
| 7 | The strike , in support of a suspended colleague , has been going on for more than a week . |
| 8 | Gateshead Family Health Service 's Authority admitted it had known what was going on for more than a year , but action was taken only after a patient contacted them . |
| 9 | Someone , someone told me it 's on for three and a half hours ! |
| 10 | However , the damage was done at the discontinued line which simply reflects the fact that we had er , Elserver in for two and a half months in nineteen ninety one , as opposed to twelve months the year before . |
| 11 | They always came in for more than a little if they had offended him in the past . |
| 12 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 13 | On Orkney 's west coast cliffs we filmed the memorial to Lord Kitchener and the men of the Hampshire which had struck a mine near the shore in 1916 and gone down with all but a handful of survivors ; in the Flow we spoke to divers still bringing up steel and copper from the Kaiser 's sunken High Seas Fleet ; and on the island of Lamb Holm on the eastern side we filmed a sequence of the little Catholic chapel , fashioned out of a Nissen hut by Italian prisoners-of-war who had built a causeway linking the islands after Prien 's successful foray in U.47 against the Royal Oak . |
| 14 | Wendy 's gone down from twelve and a half stone to about eight |
| 15 | My weight had by now gone down to six and a half stone . |
| 16 | When Dick 's lads are down to seven and a half hours which they are in the erm summertime , I mean we s the lads 'll come in I mean we ca n't pull them off now , but those lads 'll come in and clean up . |
| 17 | Most of this made its way to the government , so that by February 1797 it had been run down to less than a sixth of this level . |
| 18 | He added : ‘ We have targeted this and we will look next at reducing waiting times to 18 months across the board and eventually hope to get it down to less than a year . ’ |
| 19 | Now the proportion is down to less than a quarter , and falling . |
| 20 | Do you know the share he bought for ten p each last week went down to three and a half pence each . |
| 21 | The electronic information explosion knows no frontiers ; we may soon be enveloped in a world-encompassing atmosphere of information messages and ‘ noise ’ of a variety and density not known before , able to plug in to one or a multiplicity of channels and capture information of a wide diversity of nature and origin , much of it junk . |
| 22 | With me in the studio is journalist , Dorothy Grace Elder who sixteen months ago weighed in at fourteen and a half and was perfectly happy with it . |
| 23 | Is that for for trapping it in or tuning it in at all or a different thing ? |
| 24 | In some areas public order and drunkenness offences are down by more than a third . |
| 25 | But since nineteen eighty seven , daily paper sales are down by more than a tenth . |
| 26 | That 's right which was run two days a week for over for three and a half weeks . |
| 27 | But by the time Rachel arrived at the factory gates the October sunshine was doing its best to struggle through with more than a promise of a fine day to come . |
| 28 | The Appeal is running over into 1990 and a further Appeal leaflet is being produced . |
| 29 | It was mid-way through round two that a fired up Denny sprung the trap door here . |
| 30 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |