Example sentences of "an [noun] [prep] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It definitely brings a European flavour to our cars here [ in the US ] and it is an advantage over there as well . |
| 2 | They were more than three times as likely as the unemployed to be part of an income unit with an income of more than £100 per week ( 14 per cent and 4 per cent ) and half as likely to have an income of less than £50 a week ( 19 per cent and 41 per cent ) . |
| 3 | Moseley cites a University of East Anglia Survey in rural Norfolk which indicated that , in 1975 , only 8 per cent of households with an income of more than £2,000 per annum had no car , although even families with much lower incomes attempted to run cars in rural areas ( Moseley et al . |
| 4 | Three-quarters of local households had an income of less than £10,000 in 1987 . |
| 5 | The same justification was used by Thomas Cromwell in the mid-1530s when he began the dissolution of all those bodies with an income of less than £200 a year . |
| 6 | They were more than three times as likely as the unemployed to be part of an income unit with an income of more than £100 per week ( 14 per cent and 4 per cent ) and half as likely to have an income of less than £50 a week ( 19 per cent and 41 per cent ) . |
| 7 | By comparison , more than three in five of the older working-class women had an income of less than £30 per week and none had over £60 ( Taylor and Ford , 1983 , p. 192 ) . |
| 8 | In my view it is rather pointless to spend much money on any refracting telescope with an aperture of less than 3 inches ( 76 mm ) or a reflector with a main mirror less than 6 inches ( 152 mm ) in diameter . |
| 9 | More significantly , under Chapter II university extension courses were now recognised as eligible for grant-aid — after an existence of more than fifty years . |
| 10 | An hour at least before the manager turned up to write his acid little letters . |
| 11 | It 'll be an hour at least before we get a table . ’ |
| 12 | It 's six cylinder engine has a top speed of seventy five miles an hour in forward and reverse . |
| 13 | Customers booking an apartment with an occupancy of more than 5 receive a 20% discount off the under-occupancy supplement . |
| 14 | The Commonwealth Tournament , which is held every two years , has attracted an entry of more than 200 competitors from a total of 15 countries , including Australia , New Zealand , Nigeria , Zimbabwe , Kenya and Hong Kong . |
| 15 | And there is an uncertainty about how and when any interaction will take place . |
| 16 | Senken Shinbun , a leading textile industry newspaper , has awarded a prize for marketing to the Tencel Kai , an association of more than 230 companies now actively developing and commercialising Tencel into fashion apparel . |
| 17 | Primary schools are very tightly staffed , to the extent — as the 1986 Parliamentary Select Committee Report recognized — that an enhancement of less than one teacher above establishment can generally achieve relatively little ( House of Commons 1986 ) . |
| 18 | Easy Rider took $45 million worldwide for an outlay of less than $400,000 and there are few comparable profit-to-cost examples in the history of Hollywood . |
| 19 | Being a bright lad , he worked out that it was an updraught from underground and a few removed boulders later the entrance to Lancaster Hole was revealed . |
| 20 | Call an adjournment until tomorrow and have the merchant summoned to attend . ’ |
| 21 | Flesh , female flesh , is to the anorexic an imposition from outside and , in extreme cases , an imposition of something swollen , polluted , dirty . |
| 22 | The matter has not become an issue until now but it has been the intention to involve FWAG in SAC work for the Central Scotland Countryside Trust that has brought this to a head . |
| 23 | In parallel , the project is an examination of how and why different elderly people respond in the ways they do . |
| 24 | Early studies in the USA ( Hughes , 1923 ; Woodbury , 1925 ) reported higher infant mortality rates for those born after an interval of less than two years than for those born after a longer interval . |
| 25 | Note : — In the application of this Clause where there is an excess under either or both policies the following shall apply : — |
| 26 | ( 2 ) Damage arising from a direct collision between vehicles insured by the parties to this Agreement and the Policy issued by one of those parties being a fleet insurance or part of a fleet insurance as defined hereunder a ) and not granting indemnity against such damage to the insured vehicle or b ) being subject to an excess of more than $100 in respect of such damage , that party shall pay a ) one half of the loss of the other party in respect of the damage to their Insured 's vehicle or b ) not more than half the excess save and except that if the amount recoverable is $50 or less this clause will be inoperative . |
| 27 | While he has his backers the nature of Mr Birt 's shake-up at the corporation , introducing distinctly Thatcherite market-forces into an organisation at least as set in its ways as the civil service , but many times more internally political , means there are many ready to use the episode to raise other questions against him . |
| 28 | So that , there 's a an Audi in there and Audi diesel |
| 29 | There 's not much chance of finding an 'usband down 'ere and Aah 've no wish ti stop an old maid all me life . |
| 30 | And Glow-worm 's Economy 24 heat generator , with an output of more than 7 kW , in one of the balanced flue range with an extension flue kit available for siting versatility . |