Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Jack walked through the quiet roads for almost an hour before he came to the bottom of Monument Hill . |
| 4 | For example , in ascertaining the image of a book on a distant plane , he adopted a procedure familiar to artists for almost a century . |
| 5 | But , in contrast , they may partly see the ad in this way a number of times during quite a short period . |
| 6 | I come from Holland and in Amsterdam toy robots ( especially Japanese ones and deleted ones from Holland ) have been accessories for over a year now . |
| 7 | The plasterer dressed in his working clothes of fustian splashed with white lime , seen in the Little Dorrit illustration saying goodbye to the Father of the Marshalsea , managed to settle with his creditors after only a week . |
| 8 | The left is putting up candidates for only a handful of school districts in bohemian areas like lower Manhattan ; and even in these areas , few teachers are likely to have the courage to teach the rainbow curriculum . |
| 9 | They remained on the cars for about a year , working regularly on route 16/18 . |
| 10 | Kleiman suggested that this was because his shadowing task had occupied space in the readers ' " working memory " — a kind of short-term memory useful in retaining numbers and words for just a few seconds . |
| 11 | Seeing as we 've had those words for about a week I should think we do know them then . |
| 12 | Hearing : After they have been in their homes for quite a short time , people who live near railway lines cease to hear the sound of the passing trains , even though the noise may seem deafening to a visitor . |
| 13 | By the mid-twenties , on average , most men and women will be satisfying their search for relationships through either a series of relationships or one stable relationship . |
| 14 | In London , a small group of clinical research nurses based in the St Peter 's group of hospitals and the Royal College of Surgeons has been meeting every two months for over a year , calling themselves the Clinical Research Nurses Association . |
| 15 | In many cases , a material may exhibit the characteristics of both a liquid and a solid and neither of the limiting laws will adequately describe its behaviour . |
| 16 | At temperatures above 374° C and pressures above 218 atmospheres , water becomes what is known as a supercritical fluid , with some of the characteristics of both a liquid and gas , and is able to dissolve almost anything . |
| 17 | It is a massive concerto in four movements rather than the usual three — the addition of a scherzo emphasises that the work has the characteristics of both a concerto and a symphony . |
| 18 | Amid the flood of new text books and monographs there occasionally appear books of quite a different character which , if of suitable quality , are a valuable supplement to the more traditional undergraduate literature . |
| 19 | Relative savings of only a few percent in this area can therefore mean sizeable savings in absolute terms . |
| 20 | Technical developments in both polyethylene film and paper production have led to material savings of about a third for the same performance , good news environmentally and commercially . |
| 21 | I 'd hunch down under the covers with just an air-hole to breath through , and shelter there . |
| 22 | Go , for example , to a meeting of the European Space Agency and the place will be crawling with European technical journalists with only a few desultory Brits , as often as not from the show-biz pages . |
| 23 | ‘ In some cases managers are stuck in the middle of supporters with only a couple of inches of space between them , ’ said chief executive John Camkin . |
| 24 | The same survey also says that ungrateful employers leave nearly all travel arrangements to their secretaries with scarcely a word of thanks . |
| 25 | The disk is round , diameter up to 19.5 mm ; covered by a dense coating of long rugose spinelets with basically a trifid crown . |
| 26 | All her life had been spent surrounded by grimy bricks with hardly a green grass blade in sight . |
| 27 | This posed the dissidents with quite a problem . |
| 28 | Kroch and Small ( 1978 ) extend the application of quantitative methods in quite a different way , taking as their data base several hours of talk-show ( phone-in ) conversation from a Philadelphia radio station . |
| 29 | Mandy had warned her that storms came up fast on the lake , but nothing could have prepared her for blue skies being annihilated by black storm-clouds in just a matter of minutes . |
| 30 | Reduce sugary snacks to twice a day . |