Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [art] minor [noun] " in BNC.

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1 An auspicious debut — and something of a minor success in Britain , remarkably so considering they were too busy traipsing around the States with Revolver to take time to promote it here .
2 I confess to having myself once described a particularly abstruse provision as ‘ something of a minor masterpiece of opacity ’ , but I regret it because I think that such shafts are frequently not aimed at the right target .
3 Broadly , there was stability in the marriage rates from the 1870s to the 1940s , although there appears to have been something of a minor dip in those getting married in the late 1920s and 1930s .
4 At an outstanding elevation of 1000 feet , the Fat Lamb has had its fair share of battles with the elements , and its proprietors , Paul and Helen Bonsall , admit that the garden 's survival has been something of a minor miracle .
5 To his complete amazement , Frankie found himself something of a minor celebrity among the children of St Andrew 's .
6 Er , so i it 's er changes of that kind that have been looked at because if you move production work out of one nation into the other to get a nice rationalised allocation of work , you build this wing , you build that wing and so on , you then have got to do something with the minor components to get back to you original erm work share allocation and percentage times .
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