Example sentences of "this [noun sg] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case a few records are updated very frequently , a few very seldom , and most records are updated more or less an average amount ; the distribution is shown in Fig. 6.21 . |
| 2 | Without any ends at all for which to survive life would be , in the strict sense of the words , not worth living , and on this boat a few decencies preserved without regard for consequences would be the last ends left which he values for themselves . |
| 3 | Before concluding this chapter a few remarks on the subject of doubling strings by wind may be useful . |
| 4 | I have asked myself this question a thousand times , a hundred thousand times . |
| 5 | Instead he had worked for several years for Lintas , the advertising agency owned by Unilever , only abandoning this job a few months before war broke out in order to concentrate for a period entirely on his painting . |
| 6 | Spencer Stuart went through this process a few years earlier in a more effective way . |
| 7 | I had three questions on this point a few minutes ago . |
| 8 | Lorentz returned to this point a few months later when he was reviewing Fritz Lang 's German film M . |
| 9 | First , at this juncture a few points in regard to what might be meant by ‘ baroque ’ . |
| 10 | He had heard this request a thousand times . |
| 11 | ‘ But I do n't want to be sharing my life with anyone , gorgeous hunk or not , ’ Shannon had pointed out mildly , managing with an effort not to remind Kelly they 'd been over this ground a hundred times before . |
| 12 | By closing this door a million times to your fears , you will gain the strength to create newness in your life . |
| 13 | Zen had watched this cycle a dozen times or more when he felt a touch on his shoulder and turned to find Gilberto grinning up at him . |
| 14 | This state of affairs has complicated my present task , since what was current when I began thinking about this book a few years ago , and , indeed , when working on earlier drafts of it , is now ceasing to be so . |
| 15 | I had come this way a hundred times , always varying my route so as to avoid making more of a track than a rabbit might do . |
| 16 | The CRL tackled this problem a few years ago , developing ice-lined refrigerators : tubes of water surrounding the fridge compartment freeze ; if the power fails , the tubes keep the vaccines cool until all the ice has melted . |
| 17 | The Mackie Memorial Library had been put together for just this purpose a hundred years before , and these were the very books being sold by Derbyshire library staff . |