Example sentences of "[prep] perhaps a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , in a publishing environment where there may be a need for perhaps a dozen word processors but just one page makeup system this approach has strong financial advantages . |
| 2 | This means that it accounts for perhaps a third of the sales of ICI Chemicals & Polymers — about the same proportion as does the latter in the whole of ICI . |
| 3 | Most printers would be only too pleased to oblige — for perhaps a modest donation to the tea tin . |
| 4 | I think you 've also got ta look at it from the kid 's point of view and perhaps I 'm wrong here but , you know when you think , I mean , the these are going to be done very , you know er i i we got a sort of time limit , and kids are going to be told during perhaps a two week period |
| 5 | More impressed by a factor of perhaps a hundred million , if that is the ratio between the world population surveyed by our newspapers , and the tribal population about whom our evolved brains ‘ expect ’ to hear news . |
| 6 | Sukarno 's repressive nationalist regime led directly to the massacre of perhaps a million of his communist supporters , gross civil rights abuses , torture , the illegal invasion of East Timor , and the current police state . |
| 7 | It is as if somebody had slipped an extra sheet of paper between the pages of the book which now , at one point consists of perhaps a million pages , at another of a million and one . |
| 8 | Secondly the child of perhaps a second husband or wife so your stepchildren if you have any . |
| 9 | Investors who would be badly upset by a further fall of perhaps a tenth in the value of their holdings , if the market turns sour , should consider weeding out a couple more of their holdings . |
| 10 | She was holding her audience of perhaps a dozen others in a corner of a large drawing-room overlooking the gardens of Belgrave Square . |
| 11 | By the early 1960s only two small herds of perhaps a dozen pedigree animals remained and it was from these that the society , revived yet again in 1982 and with the help of various organisations including the Rare Breeds Survival Trust , formed a new herdbook in 1983 in an attempt to save the breed from extinction . |
| 12 | As Donald Davie has remarked , his concept of a minority culture was modelled on the ‘ gathered church ’ of the Dissenters — a communion of saints — and the irreplaceable charm of Scrutiny to the post-war undergraduate lay ultimately in the simple fact that on every issue it made things look simple : ‘ a present of perhaps a dozen authors or books or whole periods and genres of literature which I not only need not but should not read . ’ |
| 13 | Assuming a three-course rotation , it implies 7 — 8 acres arable plus meadow and grazing ( or common rights ) , making a farm of perhaps a dozen acres — bigger if ‘ corn ’ meant only the cereal crop . |
| 14 | Mills and Boon is but one of perhaps a dozen companies in what their company profile describes as ‘ the competitive and fast-growing world of romantic fiction ’ . |
| 15 | They were in a village of perhaps a dozen houses and a white log church , out on a plain somewhere under a big , big sky ; each building stood well apart from its neighbours with just open common land between them , and the grass on that common land was deep and uncut . |
| 16 | The imminent loss of perhaps a third of the cream of Russian science , he says , demonstrates the importance of taking rapid action , by whatever means available , to help those still willing and able to do science . |
| 17 | What in fact these experiments provide , in the absence of vocal speech , are a series of artificial analogues which can , with interest , be compared to the early learning efforts of perhaps a 2-year-old infant . |
| 18 | My final stock will include shoals of all or some of the following — Zebra Danios , White Cloud Mountain Minnows , Black Widow Tetras , Red Eye Tetras , American Flagfish , Rosy Barbs , and Aurulius Barbs , with perhaps a bottom-lurking pair of Plecs or Callychthids . |
| 19 | So look for a neutral tone carpet , in shades of blue , pink or green with perhaps a delicate floral design . |
| 20 | I mean what they 're considering at the moment is making Trumpton into a live-section , full-blown Broadway show , with perhaps a major star playing the train driver . |
| 21 | On the evidence of postcrania , Sivapithecus was similar to other Miocene apes in being an arboreal quadruped with perhaps a terrestrial component as well . |
| 22 | It could well be that Matadial was thoroughly discredited , even as the case ran , but with advance information her demolition could have been more clinically achieved , with perhaps a greater effect on the jury and with a better chance of involving Zaidie in the destruction of the Crown case on motive and malice . |
| 23 | If you can find a stake that long at the garden centre , it will probably be painted green , with perhaps a black painted end for the ground — do n't be deceived . |
| 24 | teaching-machine-style programs with perhaps a certain degree of branching , and leading to interactive video ; |
| 25 | Such programs take a comprehensive analysis ( more than twenty elements ) on each sample in turn , and compare it with perhaps a hundred to two hundred other samples to try to find a close ‘ match ’ . |
| 26 | Modern Italian would be bright , primary coloured , or ‘ dolly-mixture ’ lacquered furniture , white floor and walls , with perhaps a strong dash of Memphis daring . |
| 27 | It was also accepted that an increase in PAF was necessary with perhaps a higher fee for active teachers with an associate fee for non-teaching teachers . |
| 28 | It is not known whether the original breeding arose from mutation or selection , or , some say , by crossbreeding with perhaps a French breed or the Devon . |
| 29 | Relying on a small bureau with perhaps a single film recorder is , as Murphy 's Law always points out , a somewhat foolish activity . |
| 30 | I gave him a smile with perhaps a little cruelty at its edges . |