Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , a story which for one reason had been meaningful to her as a young child provided guidance for her at adolescence for quite a different reason . |
| 2 | There is therefore opportunity for only a trickle of legislation from this source and , for reasons stated below , even less than that flows . |
| 3 | It seems that he was content to stay as a house guest of Sir John Popham for quite a while , though it has been suggested he was thrown into a debtor 's prison shortly after the event . |
| 4 | Let's continue the story for just a moment in a ridiculous way . |
| 5 | Moszkowicz added : ‘ I served on the Darlington board for about a year because I misread Football League rules . |
| 6 | really a continuous , strongish wind to blow in one direction for quite a few hours . |
| 7 | ‘ He was Rainer Schickert for only a year and a few months — and mostly in hiding . |
| 8 | ‘ See here , ’ said the doctor doubtfully , ‘ it is n't usual for a man to walk into an empty house at four in the morning and come out with another man 's cheque for nearly a hundred pounds . ’ |
| 9 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 10 | It is possible that [ J. ] could inhale vomit during either a nasogastric feed or an epileptic fit . |
| 11 | It is possible that [ J. ] could inhale vomit during either a nasogastric feed or an epileptic fit . |
| 12 | When their mother died in 1778 she was sent away to Halifax , to stay with her mother 's cousin , Miss Elizabeth Threlkeld , for nine years ; she then lived at Penrith with her grand-parents , seeing William for only a short time , and from 1789 to 1794 was away from the Lake District again , in the care of her uncle and aunt at Forncett in Norfolk . |
| 13 | He 'd tried to stop a truck which was loaded with stolen aluminium scrap worth just a hundred pounds . |
| 14 | He 'd tried to stop a truck which was loaded with stolen aluminium scrap worth just a hundred pounds . |
| 15 | If the right hon. Gentleman would study recent CBI surveys he would see that domestic and export orders are rising , that export orders are at their highest level for over a year and that there is confirmation that business conditions are beginning to improve in line with confidence . |
| 16 | Unemployment has fallen to its lowest level for almost a year . |
| 17 | The problems result from long-term exposure , so families who change homes every few years may not suffer because they are exposed to levels above the action level for only a short time . |
| 18 | ‘ She said she had been locked in a flat in Moston for about a week and had been injected with drugs during that time . |
| 19 | Iris has known Philippe for quite a long time . |
| 20 | She hesitated for a moment before adding in a lowered voice , ‘ She 's known Philippe for quite a while , but I do n't think she ever realised … ’ |
| 21 | Yet from 10.15p.m. the line bites began and bream had been rolling steadily along the familiar route for almost an hour . |
| 22 | If hypnotics are prescribed , enough tablets for only a few nights should be given at any one time and the medication stopped once the period of distress is over . |
| 23 | The adventure ties up a computer for quite a long time . |
| 24 | At the end of July and beginning of August a group of six Drouot experts , headed by the president of the company Joël-Marie Millon , were in Moscow for almost a week offering free estimates to the Muscovites on their works of art , antiques and jewellery . |
| 25 | Jack walked through the quiet roads for almost an hour before he came to the bottom of Monument Hill . |
| 26 | For example , in ascertaining the image of a book on a distant plane , he adopted a procedure familiar to artists for almost a century . |
| 27 | I 've been into this look for quite a while now , I know the rules . |
| 28 | Big undertakings like Sheffield and Worth only required twenty or thirty men each , and of course for just a few weeks at a time . |
| 29 | And of course for quite a while we were from . |
| 30 | Encore has been shipping Multimax superminis for over a year and has now sold ( and shipped ) two to the OSF 's development lab in Boston . |