Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet another strategy is to put progress on ‘ hold ’ and stay with your current level of progress for a few weeks until you feel more accustomed to the level and better able to proceed . |
| 2 | To polish the edge , use a piece of hardwood with a few drops of oil on it . |
| 3 | It left quite an impression , because it needed the brilliant virtuosity that Repin already had at that time , and it needed powerful playing from the orchestra , not just loud but with a lot of richness for the fast passages — you know how to judge a great orchestra when you hear let's say thousands of notes in a few seconds , and there 's still a special timbre . |
| 4 | On Friday we 're playing for a couple of hours with a few suprise guests one had considerably more hair than the rest of the band put together . |
| 5 | As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’ |
| 6 | A share is not a sum of money … but is an interest measured by a sum of money and made up of various rights contained in the contract , including the right to a sum of money of a more or less amount . ’ |
| 7 | It has been too complacent in collecting large sums of money from a few lucrative inventions , such as the cephalosporin antibiotics , and has not taken on enough risky new ventures . |
| 8 | Now actually Mill did put the his erm this proposal forward , he was a member of parliament for a few years and he was trying to get this discussed in parliament . |
| 9 | There is nothing more demoralising than coming home with an injury which keeps you out of action for a few weeks . |
| 10 | Tank decor has come a long way in recent years from the garish backdrop , and the odd lump of rock with a few dying plants . |
| 11 | Murray , from Musselburgh , has returned to Tucson where she is staying at the University of Arizona with a former Musselburgh Grammar PE teacher , Meg Ritchie , the head strength coach there . |
| 12 | The aim of statistics is to represent a large amount of data by a few simple parameters and the mean of the Normal distribution is one of the most important of these . |
| 13 | The aim of statistics is to represent a large amount of data by a few simple parameters and the mean of the Normal distribution is one of the most important of these . |
| 14 | Obviously we are not going to cure the blight of centuries in a few years . |
| 15 | On the other hand its comparative fragility makes the risk of solicitation of clients by a former employee the more serious . |
| 16 | A new urgency came when the depressed labourers exploded into protest in the autumn of 1830 , part of troubles that swept much of England in a few months . |
| 17 | It is perhaps appropriate to stress again that where playwrights require pages of dialogue to explain every factor in the development of the plot , to create a changing atmosphere and to show how the actions affect the actors in the play , dancers can communicate whole passages of dialogue in a few expressive gestures woven into enchaînements . |
| 18 | Like no way I 've been out of work for a few months |
| 19 | Saouma announced in March 1990 that an independent commission of inquiry under a former Swedish Prime Minister , Ola Ullsten , was to be set up to investigate the slow progress of the action plan for the tropical rainforests , set up in 1985 in collaboration with the UNDP and the World Resources Institute . |
| 20 | A group of prisoners are out of jail for a few days … but the authorities know exactly where they are . |
| 21 | He pointed out a gruelling three-mile running course to Bowe , instructed him to learn it and then said he 'd be going out of town for a few days . |
| 22 | ‘ I think you can dispense with the formalities , Letty , curtsying would look out of place in a few rooms in a lodging house , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 23 | I tried declaring my own sense of dissatisfaction to a few friends and found I 'd caught a tiger by the tail . |
| 24 | Maureen Roberts , the late Director of the Edinburgh Breast Screening Project , observed that screening ‘ is not offering any certainty of cure or normal life to the women who attend , merely a prolongation of years for a few . |
| 25 | ‘ We could find people who wanted £3m worth of business over a few years , but failed to get any quick profit deals . |
| 26 | There were some fears however that only a small number of member firms would survive , and the concentration of business amongst a few firms would lead to higher transactions costs and hence lower turnover and liquidity . |
| 27 | In the lower reaches of the forest , then , there is a constant but low level of presentation of a few flowers dealt with by low but more or less constant densities of animals , whereas in the upper layers , the flowers are more conspicuously advertised and draw such animals as birds , which are wider-ranging and with good sight , as well as the local , more stationary pollinators from lower in the forest . |
| 28 | His recall of the Parlement of Paris within a few months of his accession , his failure to support his radically reforming Controller-General Turgot ( 1774–76 ) , showed that he was no more able than his grandfather to withstand the opposition of the privileged groups . |
| 29 | Native speakers are accustomed to making a lot of assumptions from a few clues . |
| 30 | Whittaker says there was a five-month search for Archie Norman 's successor but admits that his and Mulcahy 's knowledge of Kerr-Muir as a former competitor at Tate & Lyle was ‘ quite helpful ’ . |