Example sentences of "happen [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , I 'm rather concerned that this kind of thing seems to be happening rather a lot , I mean this is so reminiscent of what happened in the , the four maisonette in in Fern Hill where we had empty blocks left for a long time erm becoming a magnet for vandalism and all kinds of everything ! |
| 2 | That happens once a year or so . |
| 3 | It is not too awful to be confronted with people cleverer than oneself ( in science journalism it happens quite a lot ) but it is intolerable to share the world with people who apparently are party to bodies of knowledge and ways of thinking that make all one 's own ideas seem petty . |
| 4 | I should think that happens quite a lot , but I doubt they 'd call themselves The Hell Fire Club . |
| 5 | It happened only a mile from the Metrocentre shopping complex where on May 9 last year several IRA incendiary devices were planted in stores , some going off but causing only minimal damage . |
| 6 | The attack on the Harper and Harper store in Northgate , Darlington , happened exactly a week after raiders smashed their way into the store and loaded a van with three piece suites . |
| 7 | ‘ But unfortunately these things happen quite a lot in this business . ’ |
| 8 | And used to happen twice a year and erm sometimes somebody 'd remember my birthday or find that I had my birthday or and at Christmas time we used to get some money . |