Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Tordjman noted that 9% of business came from IBM AS/400 systems , up from nothing only a couple of years ago .
2 Well it 's low this is lower cost than what we 're doing currently , we 're giving away , we 're getting nothing only a cost of of twenty five quid on the seat .
3 The first is : if your father ran off with someone only a couple of years older than you , what this probably means is that he really wanted to run off with you .
4 Well my brother was with went with that one once a boy As a boy .
5 It all went wrong when they discovered something up a gum-tree in Malaysia and called it gutta-percha .
6 But in view of the fact that different actuaries can come to different answers and Professor Good quotes one where a difference of half per cent gives rise to a difference of a hundred and sixty seven million .
7 The full status for the male is achieved only after killing an enemy , who , by definition , is anyone not a member of the home village .
8 The latter was more than anything else a showcase for younger expressionist poets like Georg Heym .
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