Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun sg] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | C. For a long time many people in the highlands and uplands of Scotland have disliked being so remote . |
| 2 | Alec also recalls that his grandfather had been a bank boy with the company for a short period many years before he and Jean began their employment . |
| 3 | Wales , to date , I knew naught of — apart from a week at Cardiff in The Maid of the Mountains , and one at Swansea with Agatha Christie 's Murder at the Vicarage , both appearances as a young actress many years before . |
| 4 | Her head is large with a substantial brain many times bigger than the tiny knot of nerve cells that is all that a worker possesses . |
| 5 | Injection of the mother with a mitotic arrestant many hours before embryo recovery will increase the proportion containing mitotic divisions but long exposure also leads to excessive chromosome contraction which makes analysis difficult . |
| 6 | Who , I wondered , had made the hazardous journey through the rocks in a small boat many years ago to build that cairn ? |
| 7 | In a subsequent publication many years later ( 1960 ) Lippitt and White investigated the effect of leadership on productivity in different groups . |
| 8 | In Roman times the cities and major towns certainly did , and on a local scale many villas must have done so as well . |
| 9 | Usually the priors became proctors for the king , paying over to him a farm ( or rent ) , but as these farms were based on a high assessment many houses or cells sold or leased their property in order to buy denization . |
| 10 | At a certain age many children wander among disregarded places like San Quentin Point , picking their way through the rubble of the adult world . |
| 11 | Calls to it are , however , charged at a premium price many times higher than normal phone calls . |
| 12 | There was something comfortingly familiar in this maddening ruin , this mythagoscape , generated by a burned airman many years in the past , created by him as he journeyed to the innermost and most ancient place of all . |
| 13 | My brother was sacked by a Tory council many years ago in Derbyshire because he had the guts to take it on , and he has nothing to apologise for . |