Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] of [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a couple of moments of deep breathing , the giddiness receded . |
| 2 | After a couple of glasses of champagne and a hamburger , and under the influence of my friends ' euphoria , I cheered up . |
| 3 | Mind you few customers are likely to care what they 're eating after a couple of glasses of Mulsum : Salute . |
| 4 | After a couple of decades of comparative calm , the names of Armstrong and Elliot began to reappear in familiar practices . |
| 5 | After a couple of hours of observing in these conditions , shapes and objects in front of me appeared to move , if I stared at them for too long . |
| 6 | I could see Dad was worried so after a couple of hours of hanging about I offered to return to Mary 's . |
| 7 | The relay will usually free up after a couple of doses of light oil in this manner . |
| 8 | At the beginning , before we start to read a couplet , we are aware that it is a couplet ( whether through modem conventions of typography , or through our familiarity with the poetic convention itself ) ; we can see that it will end after a snatch of words of between four and about ten , and we can expect that the couplet will constitute a complete sense-unit . |
| 9 | British Rail has spent fifteen million pounds to make doors on high-speed trains more secure after a number of deaths of passengers falling-out . |
| 10 | However , after a number of years of operation , the APU does not appear to have been conspicuous in its success : most of the background measures are of little use , and there are difficulties in relevant measures . |
| 11 | At one time boundaries were , in the main , marked by a white line , and it was only after a number of years of requesting the TCCB that in matches organised by them a rope be used to denote the boundary that this regulation was implemented , if my memory serves me correctly , for the 1983 season . |
| 12 | Only then may the supplier 's product be classified as satisfactory , and , perhaps after a number of years of further product tests have elapsed , the supplier may be added to the list of recognised contractors . |
| 13 | Therefore , after a number of years of operation , regular service and preventative maintenance , it can become increasingly difficult to retain peak performance and preserve the capital value of this expensive asset . |
| 14 | Seabird colonies in the Shetland Isles are recording significant breeding successes after a number of years of declining numbers . |
| 15 | Now if we consult this record , and remember the success , in giving it its modern form , of a gallery of reformers of roughly utilitarian hue from Tom Paine , Bentham , J.S. Mill , and Tolstoy , to Bernard Shaw , Sidney and Beatrice Webb , and Evelyn Strachey , we might wonder why its provisions for animals do not embody more closely the ideals of that theory . |
| 16 | Quantum leaps from working class to the chair of a board of directors of a multinational corporation are rare , which is why they attract so much attention when they occur . |
| 17 | The report , which examined whether industry , commerce and the police had sufficient specialist advice to assist in the detection and investigation of offences , recommends that business and the Government highlight the cost of computer misuse as part of an overall promotion of computer security awareness ; conduct regular surveys of the incidence of computer misuse ; and encourage the development of a directory of suppliers of expert advice . |
| 18 | Consequently , a member state would be bound to authorise the registration of a vessel of nationals of another member state only if those nationals were entitled , in the light of those criteria , to benefit by the quotas of the first member state . |
| 19 | It is important to emphasise that , as we have defined it , transparency is the end-point of a continuum of degrees of opacity , much as ‘ cleanness ’ is the end-point of a continuum of ‘ degrees of dirtiness ’ ( see chapter 9 ) . |
| 20 | The legislature consists of a Chamber of Deputies of 254 members elected directly for four-year terms with half of the seats renewable every two years , and a 46-member Senate nominated by the legislatures of each of the 23 provinces for nine-year terms with one-third of the seats renewable every three years . |
| 21 | National legislative authority rests with a bicameral National Congress consisting of a Chamber of Deputies of variable size ( 487 in 1990 ) elected every four years by a system of proportional representation and a Federal Senate with 72 members elected for eight-year terms and with elections at four-year intervals for , alternately , one-third and two-thirds of the seats . |
| 22 | I feel like a worker in Stalinist Russia denouncing his comrades but I say , ‘ Well , I thought of a couple of friends of mine … ’ |
| 23 | So , taking account of the polonium , local people relying mainly on local milk , meat and vegetables could expect doses over a period of a couple of years of about 4 to 15 rems ; more incidentally , than people at Hiroshima within 2 km of the bomb . |
| 24 | It did occur because the depression was so er , was so long erm , but by and large , farmers do n't go out of , do n't cease erm , production just because of a couple of years of er , poor harvests or low , low prices . |
| 25 | And after a matter of a couple of years of use , er the service had already been curtailed , from nine trains down to five per day , erm and er shortly the passenger service was completely withdrawn . |
| 26 | It was just why I 'm I mean wi the last meeting we had , took me sort of three pages to write what we 've got to do and each item that we 've got to do is sort of a couple of sheets of A four . |
| 27 | The general consensus among modern anthropologists is that we too should get away from the notion of private property as we know it , when we analyse the economic system of pre-literate peoples , but instead talk of a multiplicity of rights of different types . |
| 28 | In suggesting programmes according to level we have taken account of a range of dimensions of difficulty . |
| 29 | With more money available to satisfy scientific curiosity , with the development of a range of types of boring equipment and with the adaptation of seismic work , the solid profiles beneath alluvium can more often be determined . |
| 30 | I 'm not going to attempt to pour cold water on it , for any plaudits we get here from the South where racing is concerned should be gratefully received , but I noticed that the award was based on the votes of a panel of members of the Racing Club of Ireland and ‘ leading racing writers ’ . |