Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | after a couple of hours overtime , . |
| 2 | After a couple of nights when he had difficulty in getting to sleep , Charles had slept well . |
| 3 | The case is hard to argue against , and even harder after a couple of Tories just get up and say flatly that they will be voting for the lady . |
| 4 | I 've been a sportsman all my life and after a couple of years away from the game on a daily basis , I 'm happy to be coming back . |
| 5 | Some Johannesburg hotels provided armed escorts for their guests after a spate of muggings recently . |
| 6 | The change , which could come in this autumn , follows the scrapping of the controversial unit fines system , which led to public outrage after a number of cases where huge fines were imposed for trivial offences . |
| 7 | Income tax was minimal ; Marie Webster had an old demand showing that of a total of $604 only $3.90 was payable . |
| 8 | of a description of property ordinarily intended for private use , occupation or consumption ; and |
| 9 | Thus s5(3) states : ( 3 ) A person shall not be liable under section 2 above for any loss of or damage to any property which , at the time it is lost or damaged , is not- ( a ) of a description of property ordinarily intended for private use , occupation or consumption ; and ( b ) intended by the person suffering the loss or damage mainly for his own private use , occupation or consumption . |
| 10 | In the course of a description of Henchard late in the novel , Hardy says , " [ QUOTE ] " . |
| 11 | In the case of a buy-out of assets rather than shares , the apportionment of the consideration to each of the assets may itself have tax implications . |
| 12 | It had long been thought that many seventeenth and eighteenth century blocks in Rome were of a type of construction essentially Medieval or Renaissance , but Ostia shows that the basic plan of these is Roman . |
| 13 | Indeed fluidity — of both form and texture is perhaps the chief characteristic of a type of music so free and richly varied that it defies definition . |
| 14 | This is important because it is directly relevant to understanding the mechanism of a type of eruption not yet observed at first hand by any human being , but one that would make the Mt Pelee eruption pale into insignificance if an example were to occur today . |
| 15 | By comparison with last year , you will be ov overall this year by comparison with last year , er you 'll be about point six of a member of staff down . |
| 16 | Following the secondment of a member of staff overseas , a vacancy for the above post has arisen in the Department of Agricultural Water Management . |
| 17 | At the other end of the table from Dowd , sitting in front of a heap of newspapers doubtless carrying the Burke reports , sat a professorial man in his sixties , white hair oiled to his scalp . |
| 18 | ‘ In all my years of motor racing , I can only think of a couple of times when I mastered the machine as at the Nürburgring in 1968 . |
| 19 | Even from this distance of a couple of tables away one could sense the crackle of electricity between them . |
| 20 | There 's a portfolio of properties at the high values of a couple of years ago . |
| 21 | Their model 855 , a multi-bit design of a couple of years back , achieved something of a cult status and not only in the UK . |
| 22 | The darlings of a couple of years back , Projects UK has fallen from grace or viability or both . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ he said smoothly , ‘ I can think of a couple of occasions when patronising you was the last thing on my mind . ’ |
| 24 | The race started under heavy cloud — a contrast to the brilliant sunshine of a couple of days earlier and saw many contenders trying to push Swanson to the limit . |
| 25 | Do you think there was more of a sense of community then or |
| 26 | But I watched , out of a sense of duty admittedly , most of the election news programmes , feeling all the time , these are not relating to me in any way . |
| 27 | They form part of a range of diseases now more logically termed inherited prion diseases , and a new nomenclature has been proposed . |
| 28 | In a number of large irrigation schemes in the tropics , the continuous cultivation of a range of crops now allows certain key pests to survive ; previously a closed season or fallow provided a natural check on insect populations . |
| 29 | Correct or not , this hypothesis does at least hint at the complexities which could have been involved when Æthelred 's counsellors sat down to decide whether to pay or fight , and offers one of a range of reasons why individual self-interest may have resulted in less fighting than might have been expected . |
| 30 | In this series of articles we examine the performance profiles of a range of applications so that you may better define and refine your system . |