Example sentences of "though [adv] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Classical Eleusis , then , though only a deme of Attica , behaves something like a hellenistic polis , with amour propre but curtailed freedom . |
| 2 | Though scarcely a couple of years the lieutenant 's senior , he somehow felt much older . |
| 3 | As late as 1719 there was a plot to hand over the island of Ibiza in the Balearics to the British ; but by then Catalan resentment of rule from Madrid , though still a factor of importance , was ceasing to be an immediate danger to national unity . |
| 4 | It may not always mean a great deal ( though sometimes a title of this sort can be read as a genuine sign of worth ) , but it plays an essential part in reassuring people in a notoriously insecure and uncertain business . |
| 5 | They are inconspicuous during the day ( though occasionally a couple of slender arms will be seen waving from the base of a rock ) but are very useful as scavengers . |