Example sentences of "for [adv] a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | Much of the momentum behind consumer multimedia , therefore , is fuelled by the quest for even a small slice of a very large cake . |
| 32 | It is possible to make a single , and sell it at your own gigs , for quite a small sum of money ( see Chapter 13 , ‘ Doing it the Right Way ’ by Horace Trubridge ) . |
| 33 | I discovered that for quite a long part of their career , every Simon and Garfunkel recording used a set of distinctive and unusual percussion sounds . |
| 34 | Incontrovertibly , therefore , Johnson had embraced Jacobitism to some degree of sympathy at some stage , and perhaps even quite vehemently , and perhaps for quite a long period of his life — but , as with the formation of many political tastes and stances , the dalliance owed as much to what he disliked ( the Hanoverian kings ) as to what he espoused and idealised . |
| 35 | Chairman the St Albans traffic issue , the erm bus for quite a long period of time but throughout that period of time Chairman the County Council 's decision has been absolutely clear . |
| 36 | I understand perfectly well why that should be so , as the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) made clear in the Second Reading debate his support for the higher education reforms , which account for quite a large part of the bulk of the latter part of the Bill . |
| 37 | Moreover when I once tried a word-association test with a class of college of education students , the word " library " for quite a large minority of them meant " fines " ( although there was no fines system in the college library ) . |
| 38 | Then erm one could go on , because the building industry , for instance , civil engineering , road construction , actual buildings being constructed , they 're all very weather-prone , for quite a large extent of the contract , and so we provide erm weather advice to these people throughout the contract period usually , and not only throughout the contract period , but if the contract is held up because of weather then the , we get extension of contract comes into this , we can advise both sides on whether the claim is justified or not , because we have the statistics of how much rain fell , how cold it was , or perhaps it might have been a windy spell . |
| 39 | For quite a large number of items , the relationship with the answer to this question was statistically significant . |