Example sentences of "of a [det] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No-one would go to the trouble to devise such an imposture , and kill at least once , probably twice , to maintain it , just for the possibility of a few snippets of military information . |
| 2 | Although this was brought about by the Gulf War and the subsequent world recession , it is certainly now exacerbated by an unrestrained and reckless war of attrition in which dollars are hauled over the top of the grain of a few inches of market share . |
| 3 | WIRRAL Housing Department scooped a major public relations windfall last night all for the cost of a few sticks of rock . |
| 4 | The railway track had been torn up years earlier — a cutting fined with ivy-covered telegraph poles marked it now — but the house , in need of a few coats of paint , was just next to the old railway bridge . |
| 5 | Edward , school apart , was living a much more exciting life at the ramshackle , free-and-easy household of a friend , and exploring the common around his home in ever-increasing circles in the company of a few youths of similar tastes . |
| 6 | And what can there be about the arrangement of a few slices of sausage and a dozen black olives on a dish brought by the waitress in the seaside café to keep you occupied while your fish is cooking that makes you feel that this is the first time you have seen and tasted a black olive and a piece of sausage ? |
| 7 | This will probably involve a social worker in an area team putting together a package that might consist of a few hours of home care , a couple of days of day care , and night sitting for one night . |
| 8 | But always , for that one first moment , there was a hope , a promise of a few hours of enchantment . |
| 9 | Pathos is created only by the sacrifice of a few members of the virtuous side , mostly old ones like Théoden or Dáin , or peripheral ones like Háma and Halbarad and the list of mere names in the Rohan dirge after the Pelennor Fields . |
| 10 | Despite his wide range of achievements , Dall 's name is little known outside of a few groups of specialists . |
| 11 | The presence of a few colonies of candida does not constitute infection , however , any more than the presence of many other organisms in small numbers in the vagina means that they are there in a pathogenic capacity . |
| 12 | The dilemma followed me through the publication of a few accounts of my researches . |
| 13 | ‘ Cheap , ’ Rose replied , quoting the pusher , ‘ the price of a few gallons of petrol and you 're off to paradise . ’ |
| 14 | Although the prevalence of a few types of physical impairments is higher among males , many of the largest subgroups of older disabled people contain more women than men . |
| 15 | After the 1915 offensives , the troops had come to believe that if Pétain called for an attack there must be some point to it , that it would not be a senseless sacrifice of lives in the way of those over-ambitious generals , out to gain recognition from the conquest at any price of a few yards of enemy trench . |
| 16 | Free fatty acids were then eluted three times with methanol acidified to pH 3 by the addition of a few drops of acetic acid . |
| 17 | Anglo-American sociology of law has been imprinted with the emphasis given to the study of law enforcement and criminal justice systems in handling traditional crime and , despite the interest of a few sociologists of deviance in some marginal forms of deviant conduct , our present conceptions of criminal behaviour are heavily influenced by this emphasis . |
| 18 | Here , for example , is Bassano 's version of a few bars of the soprano part of Palestrina 's ‘ Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas ’ : |