Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a fairly [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He quit after a fairly short time — I think he may have done it for only two terms . |
| 2 | Then the Lion Rampant did appear over the rising ground , perhaps three hundred yards behind those first riders , but it rose above a fairly compact party , and this was backed by a still larger body of men . |
| 3 | By the seventeenth century , however , engineers had become sufficiently skilled at making complex mechanical devices , powered by clockwork or water , to be able to make toys that moved in a fairly convincing approximation to the way that people and animals move . |
| 4 | The samples came from a fairly restricted region of the visual field , so the explanation offered in Figure 6 is probably correct . |
| 5 | His wife was Elizabeth Adlam , whom he had married in 1765 ; baptised in 1737 , daughter of William and Ann , she came from a fairly prolific Frome family . |
| 6 | Silently , they walked past dozens of sprawled figures basking in the early afternoon sun until they came to a fairly quiet and deserted stretch of grass , beneath a plane tree . |
| 7 | And what we did we created a framework first of all with six pairs of opposites pairs of opposites and er if you remember this happened in a fairly slow and methodical way very much a left brain activity saying well okay is this a valid pair of opposites to do with that . |
| 8 | Easy access to the markets of the capital for its corn , dairy produce and fatstock brought the marshland of southern Essex great wealth , of which almost two-fifths belonged to a fairly large class of rich men ; smallholders also prospered , the number of £2 assessments more than offsetting the relatively few £1 ones . |
| 9 | The view , increasingly held , that the pre-1834 Poor Law was a far from ineffective mechanism in this respect , rests on the recognition that until the sums needed for relief inflated so hugely in the later eighteenth century and especially after the crisis of the mid 1790s , extreme disgruntlement was not often expressed , as a sense of community support and involvement led to a fairly general acceptance of the obligation which rested on the better-off . |
| 10 | Her losses in the great wars of the mid-century were smaller than those of France ; and after 1748 the attention given to the navy by another Spanish statesman , Ensenada ( which included the recruitment of a considerable body of shipbuilders and technicians in Britain ) led to a fairly rapid increase in its strength . |
| 11 | Dorothy L. Sayers ' Lord Peter Wimsey went through a fairly similar transfiguration . |
| 12 | Was there , for example , a poison that created symptoms that looked like a fairly recognizable disease ? |
| 13 | So it looked like a fairly major muster . |
| 14 | If Cnut was primarily responsible for the expulsion it would show that he sometimes dealt in a fairly high-handed manner with ecclesiastics who incurred his displeasure . |
| 15 | This document , which was rich in wounding phrases , was by no means unwelcome to Chamberlain , particularly as it ended with a fairly clear hint that he ought to be the new leader . |
| 16 | They were overcome by the thundering avalanche as they skied on a fairly flat , marked piste on a mountain at St Martine De Belleville in sunny weather on Saturday . |