Example sentences of "a [noun] [adj] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many circumstances the service to the University may have been over a period several times the 3 years of undergraduate study . |
| 2 | Strategically sited wind-breaks reduce the impact of strong winds and provide more vulnerable plants with essential shelter for a distance many times the height of the wind-break . |
| 3 | Pointing to the Conservative Party 's own canvassing returns which show that they have a 20pc lead over Labour he added : ‘ Our own returns based on a sample twenty times the size of The Northern Echo survey show a quite different picture . |
| 4 | Pointing to the Conservative Party 's own canvassing returns which show that they have a 20pc lead over Labour he added : ‘ Our own returns based on a sample twenty times the size of The Northern Echo survey show a quite different picture . |
| 5 | A classic ‘ confrontation ’ is expected , but not a classic 90 minutes the purists would drool over . |
| 6 | In the very early stages the white hole appears to expand at a rate several times the speed of light , as I explain in an article written with R. C. Kapoor in Astrophysics and Space Sciences ( vol 53 , p 155 ) . |
| 7 | This they achieved with stunning success , building up a trade several times the size of their previous home market . |
| 8 | A word that coins the same message . |
| 9 | I mean , a lot more mess and a lot more doings the other way . |
| 10 | A market three times the size of all the liberalising economies of Eastern Europe combined would suddenly be wide open . |