Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Closing Over , much of which is already locked up will save the NHS almost a million pounds a year , which will be spent on more community nursing and rehabilitation . |
| 2 | It is moored here in the middle of the Thames about a hundred yards inside the Barrier . |
| 3 | It accelerated more than anticipated with the result that the capsule landed in the Atlantic over a hundred miles away from the target area . |
| 4 | There was in the UK only a moderate amount of vocational training and relatively few people with formal technical qualifications . |
| 5 | So far in the UK only a low fat spread and a range of yogurts have been launched , both containing the milk whey protein form of Simplesse . |
| 6 | Of the offences uncovered by the BCS only a tiny proportion were crimes of serious violence , and very few were serious property offences such as burglary or car theft . |
| 7 | The Mississippi opens onto the Gulf only a few miles away . |
| 8 | The ‘ epidemic delusion ’ of Pantisocratic brotherhood had perhaps never been more powerful than at that moment , life on the banks of the Susquehannah never a more siren prospect , and a conversation which began by Coleridge asking Sarah if she would write to him when he returned to Cambridge led quickly to a proposal of marriage , which she accepted . |