Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [conj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may occur several times within an organism 's lifetime , sometimes within a span of hours or even minutes . |
| 2 | A NEW book , Organised Obsessions : 1001 Offbeat Associations , Fan Clubs and Microsocieties You Can Join , lists hundreds of groups where even folks with the most unusual interests can find kindred spirits . |
| 3 | took the kids up a couple of times and then Mick and I have been up there with the |
| 4 | Every fifteen days , when the spring tides are at their peak , vast numbers of grunion ride in on the crests of waves and deliberately strand themselves on the shore . |
| 5 | ‘ Yeah ! ’ came a chorus of voices and suddenly Jeremiah Scrape was manhandled down to the river and thrown in , notebook and all . |
| 6 | I tell you , if I 'd have know what the content of the training was gon na be , I would 've arranged for our twelve crime prevention officers to go across there and listen to it , because there was a locksmith there that gave a lot of sound advice in relation to security of homes as well cars that really was good basic grounding for a crime prevention officer . |
| 7 | However , as with the magnification of print by lenses or low vision aids , enlarged print has the disadvantage of reducing the number of words or even letters that can be glimpsed at one time , and therefore may reduce speed and fluency in reading . |
| 8 | I began my career hand-setting lead type for printing on Adanas and treadle presses before moving first into the world of computers and then journalism while Jim , my co-director , had spent some 34 years with British Airways looking after the production of their timetables from data bases . |
| 9 | Leases quite often attempt to restrict the opening hours of premises , not only in respect of shops but also offices . |
| 10 | It 's a long-term problem , but politicians think in terms of months or even weeks . ’ |
| 11 | They played together co-operatively with a set of cars but once Tom decided that one of the cars was his favourite Sue quietly took it when he was n't looking . |
| 12 | The disk is round , covered with an armament of spinelets or sometimes granules which obscure the scales of the disk ; disk diameter up to 13 mm . |
| 13 | Schools accounted for 45% of candidates but only 26% of module enrolments . |
| 14 | In c and d the utterances appear to be located within different temporal spans , one relating to the speaker 's advancing age ( involving a span of 20–30 years ) as opposed to the advancement of man ( involving a span at least of decades and possibly centuries ) . |
| 15 | There 's a set up that checks a certain amount of areas and then blanks it otherwise you could be sitting there for hours waiting for a new Con activity so you just chew them off bit by bit . |
| 16 | It is an undistinguished spit of land , barely afloat so far as one can see , but it has in its time hosted some very high-level exchanges of civilities and even persons between the two countries . |
| 17 | The use of labour exchanges to encourage vocational guidance and industrial training would , he argued , have three consequences : it would reduce risks of individual ‘ maladjustment ’ , which often meant waste of abilities and even unemployment ; it would adjust the flow of labour between trades ; and it would discourage ‘ blind-alley ’ occupations , which he saw as not only demoralizing , but also as likely to lead to ‘ a fresh point of stress in industry — the transition to a new occupation at manhood ’ . |
| 18 | Of course , in reality there is no united lesbian and gay community with a common set of needs and yet Switchboard attempts a near-unique balancing act of serving some of the needs of all of the people as much of the time as possible . |
| 19 | They agreed upon an exchange of plants and later Watts journeyed to Holland , with a grant from the Company of £10 , towards travelling expenses , to collect plants for Chelsea . |
| 20 | Homeopathy has more than 2,000 remedies , made from all sorts of plants and even snake venom . |
| 21 | Any scheme devised to reduce the number of unwanted dogs will automatically involve reducing the total number of dogs and hence breeder sales . |
| 22 | From the moment of entering the Workhouse the expectation of life for most was a matter of weeks or even days . |
| 23 | Those that do may only display the differences for a matter of weeks or even days before the whole crop ripens , so there is an element of luck in flying over the right place at the right time . |
| 24 | It is unreasonable to expect a piece of software to turn you and your computer into their equal in a matter of weeks or even months . |
| 25 | Over a period of days or even hours , pollution concentrations may rise to levels which pose a threat to people 's health . |
| 26 | But what will be the effect of extending the interval to a period of days or even weeks ? |
| 27 | Possibly the commonest example is the post-flu depression that can last for a number of days or even weeks after the physical symptoms of the influenza infection have cleared up . |
| 28 | The resolution is also expected to include a ‘ warning period ’ of days or even weeks before enforcement begins . |
| 29 | For a couple of days or so England were actually in the match . |
| 30 | In the case of families where both husband and wife worked in the textile industry , joint role relationships were common and involved a large amount of sex role equality . |