Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 I walked out of the sunlight into the cool dark shadow of the gorge , meeting no deity with oozy hair hot a couple eating sandwiches and two crag rats .
2 communism rather a , a weak theory does n't it ?
3 I got the impression that he had had to use this look rather a lot lately .
4 And we try to show that retirement can be a rewarding and fulfilling I find it so anyway so I can sell things in that er sense having an experience rather a young person talking to older people how er fulfilling it wis is in retirement .
5 It is very difficult to seal all the cracks in a building so a more effective method is to create an underpressure beneath the floor to counter that in the building .
6 It was a gloomy room , with one small window that let in hardly any light , as it faced another building only a few feet away .
7 Of the rest of the text only a few small fragments survive .
8 It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier !
9 Gray , who had tucked away the penalty which set up Quakers ' promotion to the Third Division only a few weeks before , had never managed a club , and by Christmas it was becoming clear that , while a likeable character , he was not in the same class as his predecessor .
10 Menem , who had accepted Yoma 's resignation only a few days before , had been forced to suspend her from her post in March when a report by a Spanish investigative judge , hearing evidence in the Spanish capital , Madrid , accused her of being part of an international drug laundering ring .
11 It is not snowing , but there is enough wind to be chilling and the day is grey and misty , so I get little sense of where the camp is , with visibility only a few tens of metres .
12 All the while long lines of lorries trundled along the streets as if it was 1945 and the retreating Wehrmacht only a couple of miles away .
13 THE GROWTH of our London Division continues , and the latest to join the fold is SG Warburg , a highly prestigious contract only a stone 's throw away from the City Road office .
14 At the time of argument before the Board only an abbreviated account of the judgment , reported in The Times , 16 April 1992 , was available for consideration .
15 In one direction only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean , while in the other the valley goes back for miles and miles .
16 In order to allow the experiment to be completed by subjects in one hour only a subset of the original films from Studies 2 and 3 were used .
17 They sing the chorus together a second time .
18 Normal was what people said some of their actions and relations were , from time to time , and in Marcus 's experience what they said they were bore only a vague relation to their actual forms and configurations .
19 The whole of East-West trade is at present only a small piece of a small slice of a rather small cake .
20 Ideally an entry which is at present only a cross-reference might be better made into a full entry , while the existing entries might be better turned into cross-references , and so on .
21 Since there is at present only a small pool of people with experience in this area the use of practitioners as trainers provides an element of ‘ training the trainers ’ in the course team .
22 Hudson and Denner present only a successful and respected gentleman whose accomplishments might only be guessed at .
23 Well up in Scotland of course we do n't need to save our rain water we get plenty of it coming from the unclear , but er one thing I would say would be that erm if we have a warm spell and the sun is beating on a bitumen roof and then of course suddenly a shower and that er goes into the water bucket or water barrel then it does give you maybe you know a few problems .
24 In the 1987 United Kingdom general election only a handful of very small parties that were genuinely political fielded candidates .
25 Most of all , I would worry if they sought Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 to demonstrate their solidarity with a man in a spot of bother by giving him a present perhaps a watch inscribed ‘ do n't let the buggers get you down ’ after all , it appears to be a coded message that it 's time for an early and a swift departure . ’
26 Most of all , I would worry if they sought Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 to demonstrate their solidarity with a man in a spot of bother by giving him a present perhaps a watch inscribed ‘ do n't let the buggers get you down ’ after all , it appears to be a coded message that it 's time for an early and a swift departure . ’
27 She went into the tiny pantry and busied herself , preparing the ingredients she had had brought from the kitchen only an hour before .
28 " Potentates , diplomatists and militarists made this war " , claimed the most important and vocal British radical group of this kind only a few weeks after the outbreak of the conflict .
29 Move that up a bit so a little better .
30 The importance of the amendment by the 1988 Criminal Justice Act was that it added the words from serious harm from him' to the end of the sentence only a custodial sentence would be adequate to protect the public' .
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