Example sentences of "of [noun sg] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | There are of course a few cases where wives earn more than their husbands . |
2 | The year went reasonably well but there were of course a few difficulties as you would expect from a new organisation . |
3 | A party spokesman said : ‘ It is an interesting initiative although there is of course an official women 's organisation within the party , run by women and for women . ’ |
4 | Mr Hitch 's son told me that there was a lack of enthusiasm a few years ago but , with new blood on the committee , it is once again gaining in popularity . |
5 | The principal reason for this is the high degree of reliance a human places on linguistic information . |
6 | We just go down for a bit of practice a few nights before . ’ |
7 | You can pass a mix of string an numeric parameters to the same procedure or function and a function can return either a string or numeric value , irrespective of the type of parameters passed to it . |
8 | A woman friend saw her driving out of town a few minutes later ; after that she just vanished into thin air . |
9 | Since assuming the duties of senator a few months ago , Mr Krueger has drawn attention to himself by campaigning with Larry Hagman , who played J.R . |
10 | He spins a tiny triangle of silk a few millimetres in length and deposits a drop of sperm on to it from the gland that lies underneath his body . |
11 | I suspect that for length of service a few others like Sir Alastair Burnet , Mike Neville and Stuart Hall run me pretty close . |
12 | He wants to keep the Government 's proposals for the future of the industry a deep and dark secret — and so they remained until the Rothschild report saw the light of day a few weeks ago . |
13 | Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing . |
14 | Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing . |
15 | A wall of water a thousand feet high smashed down on Nagarythe . |
16 | It was like a wall of crystal a thousand feet high , rising from the sea not far from the shore — strong , massive , yet as fine as spun glass . |
17 | ‘ It is certainly the case that people in the same social class have many things in common — the same monopoly or lack of access a scarce resources , for example ; the same good or bad standards of housing ; the same access to , or restrictions on , educational opportunity ; the same shared experiences of comfort , travel , hardship or enjoyment . |
18 | ‘ That 's a patch of grass a few feet by a few feet , ’ I informed him , suddenly aware that Mr Palmer had never visited Chelsea Terrace in his life . |
19 | Instead of the screams of starving men , there were prayers , and the prayers passed into silence as one by one they died of starvation a few yards away from food . |
20 | ‘ Was n't he involved in some sort of scandal a few years ago ? ’ |
21 | That calm , matter-of-fact voice belonged to Jack Swigert , the command module pilot , who survived that close call but died of cancer a few weeks ago . |
22 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
23 | A severe attack of pneumonia a few weeks before the entrance examination destroyed his university hopes , and he resigned himself to working on his father 's farm . |
24 | The next Labour Government will end GP fund holding , because we shall not tolerate a two-tier list system in which the length of time a patient waits depends on the size of the GP 's budget . |