Example sentences of "of [adv] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a couple of years-sooner if a child is born — I 'll be forgiven and Anna will be taken into the family . |
| 2 | Unless you have a very small conference of less than a hundred people avoid low ceilings ; it 's like being in a crowded rail commuter carriage and everyone feels oppressed and claustrophobic . |
| 3 | Although having a population of less than a thousand , public street lighting , bus depots and council housing estates give the town an urban character and its isolated situation at the head of the loch adds a feeling of insularity . |
| 4 | The uroflow er revealed a volume of less than a hundred and fifty mil in the great majority of patients and we 've , we would dismiss that er data . |
| 5 | That is to say , an object fired vertically upward from the surface of the star with a velocity of less than a thousand kilometers per second would be dragged back by the gravitational field of the star and would return to the surface , whereas an object with a velocity greater than that would escape to infinity . |
| 6 | Minor movements of less than a hundred metres or so are probably best regarded as interruptions in one main cycle . |
| 7 | of like cos a maisonette 's got an upstairs has n't it , and his |
| 8 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 9 | Their South Molton cottage ( guide price £44,000-£46,000 ) is one of more than 20 lots to be put up for sale at the Barnstaple auction by Bristol and West Property Services , and one of more than a hundred which the building society subsidiary will be auctioning in eight West Country venues over a three-day period . |
| 10 | This new anthology should disturb many literary preconceptions with its forceful and charming discoveries , taken from the work of more than a hundred women . |
| 11 | Election Call , the daily phone-in , has attracted audiences of more than a million , compared with between 300,000 and 700,000 who normally tune in at that time . |
| 12 | Such a sequence of failures is the nightmare of nuclear opponents but a situation on which the nuclear industry sees the remote probability of more than a million to one . |
| 13 | — — — The programme described faulty workmanship in a number of new timber-frame homes following a survey of more than a hundred building sites . |
| 14 | The nine-mile-long Crinan Canal was cut through the Kintyre peninsula from Crinan Lock to Loch Fyne to create a passage for shipping that saved a journey of more than a hundred miles . |
| 15 | Its houses , shop , pub and post office were built on a narrow shelf of rock looking out over Start Bay , and it had a population of more than a hundred people . |
| 16 | However , extensive and carefully coordinated experiments are being carried out to assess the suitability of more than a dozen beef breeds , including in particular the Hereford and Aberdeen Angus from Britain , the Charolais and Limousin from France and the rare Danish Blue-and-White . |
| 17 | But numerous patronymics of later formation have lasted — Johnson , Jackson , Peterson , Lawson , FitzPayne — perhaps to a total of more than a hundred and fifty , and to this day there are useful studies to be carried out on the distribution patterns of such rarities as Mattimoe = relative of Matthew . |
| 18 | The H-bomb , with an explosive capacity of more than a million tons of TNT , had fallen into the Atlantic Ocean off southern Spain . |
| 19 | Er also patients who had a volume of more than a hundred and fifty mils , er the maximum flow was less than fifteen in , in er only fifty patients . |
| 20 | The post-void study revealed a , a residual volume of more than a hundred mils in about a third of patients , . |
| 21 | This is a Certificate which can be taken in English and any one of more than a dozen Community Languages . |
| 22 | The TLP was the most economical of more than a dozen development schemes under consideration . |
| 23 | Among these has been the establishment of the Student Advisory Committee comprised of more than a dozen students from different schools and intended to provide the basis of a national forum for addressing of student concerns and promoting their interests . |
| 24 | It was the sound of more than a hundred working men and it rose above the sounds of the countryside that had become familiar to Seb 's ears . |
| 25 | In Wiltshire out of more than a thousand tests fifty one proved positive compared with sixty last year . |
| 26 | The first of more than a hundred special advice centres for carers has been opened by the Princess Royal . |
| 27 | The former Brent Walker leisure group chief , George Walker , has been made bankrupt in the High Court in connection with debts of more than a hundred and eighty million pounds . |
| 28 | Many defendants have been fined of more than a thousand pounds , simnplky because they earned reasonable salries . |
| 29 | A dossier containing details of more than a hundred prisoners who may have been wrongfully convicted has been presented to the Home Office . |
| 30 | Peter Wakeham is leading a group of more than a hundred people demanding an inquiry . |