Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the few authorities where waste goes to modern landfills and methane is piped off for positive use , there is some energy payback , but there must be more incentive to separate the 40 per cent of the domestic waste that is vegetable-derived , and recycle it as compost . |
| 2 | Peaty gleys and subalpine podzols are dominant , with some rankers where drift is shallow or absent . |
| 3 | They are not as effective or fast acting and are damaging to some surfaces particularly aluminium . |
| 4 | Over the same distance , people use two and a half times more energy ( per kilogram of their bulk ) than the average camel . |
| 5 | There will be definitional and ultimately theoretical problems in a few cases where land-use decisions are shared in a complex manner between a small group like a household , and a larger community . |
| 6 | A few minutes later music drones from his room . |
| 7 | Rachel walked out on to the main road a few minutes later feeling overwhelmed with guilt . |
| 8 | Just a few minutes later French was released on bail pending an appeal . |
| 9 | USA hooker Tony Flay had to be replaced following an ugly facial cut and a few minutes later replacement hooker Pat Johnson had his nose broken by a punch . |
| 10 | A few minutes later Pet was back . |
| 11 | In some cases where peasant movements have taken place , they are said to be clientelist-based . |
| 12 | A poor diet , emotional stress , illness and chemical damage can all lead to dull , lifeless hair and in some cases even hair loss . |
| 13 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 14 | In the first few hours following fertilisation , the embryo is not particularly tolerant of high temperatures but , by the next day , its tolerance appears somehow to have increased . |
| 15 | The stock editor system reached a point in some authorities where work on the stock was turned over almost entirely to the ‘ specialist ’ officer , and librarians at service points were denied any real voice in stock provision . |
| 16 | She invited us — you and me — to see some pictures tomorrow evening . ’ |
| 17 | A few months ago Cozy put a solo album out , and a band together which I 'm also part of , with a few gigs coming up in Germany now , and then more round Europe in January . |
| 18 | You may remember a few months before Christmas , I think , that the five District Councils in Oxford County joined together to say that they felt that Government housing policy was failing to deal with the growing housing crisis in Oxfordshire . |
| 19 | In some respects however lack of acceptability is desirable . |
| 20 | Then Brian Pendreigh will begin and tell of political correctness in children 's books which some authors now fear amounts to censorship |
| 21 | In some countries where religion is not acknowledged to be in any way a necessary part of life , and also to a lesser degree in some where it is , the very important regular holidays , i.e. the single days or short periods of relief from work , which are spaced throughout the year , and which are additional to the long summer vacations , are fixed by arbitrary law and not by reference to religious feast days . |
| 22 | There are relatively few circumstances when examination of a book by a librarian can make any significant difference to whether or not the book should be selected for a library — especially so since the biggest consumers of approval collections are public libraries , who do not claim to be experts in any particular field . |
| 23 | In Britain , in particular , there can be few areas where water is not available at a shallow depth . |
| 24 | However , there are a few areas where confusion might arise . |
| 25 | Sure , there are a few areas where quality control could be bettered , but basically the instrument does not suffer in any way . |
| 26 | In some circumstances both possession illnesses and witchcraft and sorcery accusations afford a protest which falls short of actually severing the relationships causing the cramping pressures . |
| 27 | And still the faint red light up ahead came and went by fits and starts , leading them on across gale-swept open moorland , through massively still pine forests , up exposed dirt tracks and over passes whose names had vanished with the inhabitants of the farms where until a few decades earlier generation after generation of human beings had eked out lives of almost unimaginable deprivation . |
| 28 | France , he adds , is one of the few countries where science and technology has a future . |
| 29 | Yet there have been some areas where functionalist accounts have been elaborated to try to explain the persistence of both stability and of internal tensions within the state apparatus . |
| 30 | If there are some areas where anti-realism is comparatively easy to accept , well and good . |