Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I maybe fall asleep for maybe an hour or two and then I 'm woken and I 'm coughing all the time . |
| 2 | Candidates must apply to HCIMA three months before the date of the examination and must obtain , from the centre where they are enrolled , a signed letter stating that the centre is prepared to forward an examination paper to HCIMA . |
| 3 | It was the second longest period of party power , uninterrupted by either an election or a change of leadership , of this century . |
| 4 | She submitted there was no other appropriate or fair way for the Secretary of State to deal with the case other than to allow Doherty at least an oral hearing or written representation . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been awake for over an hour , ’ she said , sitting on the edge of the bed , when he came back into the bedroom . |
| 6 | Epilepsy may be due to either an increase in glutamate-mediated excitation or a reduction in GABA-mediated inhibition . |
| 7 | Absent or available for over an hour , the gift of speech had been restored to Alistair — speech , that prince of all the faculties . |
| 8 | After Downes had been driven away , Morse and Lewis walked back to their own car , where Morse gave urgent instructions to the forensic lab to sent a couple of their whizz-kids over to the railway station — immediately ! — and to Kidlington HQ to see that a breakdown van would be available in about an hour 's time to ferry away a certain Metro . |
| 9 | One February Sunday , on just about the coldest night I 've ever known , four of us queued up outside a cinema in Golders Green for over an hour to see Crocodile Dundee . |
| 10 | She 'd been sitting motionless for over an hour , conducting an inner battle over the need to alert the board of Chester 's about Guy 's perfidy , with the stubborn hope that somehow she might be wrong keeping her glued to the spot , torn with indecision … |
| 11 | Well er erm once they 're opened they 're alright for about an hour . |
| 12 | Having gone conspicuously quiet for over an hour , disappearing before we had even finished unpacking the car , there is nothing more to be deduced than the obvious . |