Example sentences of "[n mass] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At £26 or so a square yard , Cottage Collection may not leave you with a lot to spend on lavish celebrations . |
| 2 | AT £26 OR SO A SQUARE YARD , COTTAGE COLLECTION MAY NOT LEAVE YOU WITH A LOT TO SPEND ON LAVISH CELEBRATIONS . |
| 3 | Income support is available for people of 18 yrs or over whose incomes are below a certain level and who are not working 16hrs or more a week . |
| 4 | He said this will be followed by a wafer fabrication plant on the same site at a cost of at least I £150m and finally a finishing and test centre . |
| 5 | He had advocated an addition of either a half of the agency mark-up , which would produce a figure of forty seven thousand seven hundred and eighty six pounds and thirty four pence or alternatively a factor of twenty five percent which would produce a figure of forty five thousand one hundred and eighty eight pounds and forty pence . |
| 6 | Savings , the agency thinks , could be $100m or more a year . |
| 7 | In East Anglia , Colchester became the Roman Army Headquarters and later an important civil town . |
| 8 | If you look for strips of young geraniums at the garden centre , you should be able to get F1 hybrids for around 60p or so a plant . |
| 9 | A solid object , whether it is a rock , a fish or even a plant stem distorts this field and the fish can immediately sense the change . |
| 10 | The sailors , expecting a large fish or perhaps a shark , slit open the paunch and discovered James Bartley : unconscious , his face , neck and hands bleached white by the gastric fluids , but still alive . |
| 11 | Emily thought ruefully of the sumptuous meals she used to eat at Summer Lodge , the tempting courses of meat and fish and then a carefully concocted pudding that melted in the mouth . |
| 12 | The human embryo , for instance , passes through stages in which its structure approximates to that of an adult fish and then an adult reptile , before acquiring its final mammalian form . |
| 13 | Not only did David 's suggestion earn him a Winning Ideas Gold Award and the tidy sum of £1,000 but also a luxury trip to the Imola San Marino Grand Prix . |
| 14 | They may be wise as an owl , slippery as an eel or even a snake in the grass . |
| 15 | Finally the survey revealed that worldwide information technology spend in the wholesale finance market will hit some $20,000m during 1993 , increasing at 9% or so a year over the next five years . |
| 16 | The rate is used to calculate the tax charge on beneficial loans to directors and employees earning £8,500 or more a year , including gross expense payments and the value of benefits in kind . |
| 17 | As Table 11 indicates , a fifth of the sample expected to spend under £500 during 1984/5 , just over another fifth between £500 and £1,500 , just over a quarter between £1,500 and £3,000 and approximately a further quarter over £3,000 . |
| 18 | These disbursements do not worry the senior partner in a large firm who makes £40,000 or more a year net , but they fall heavily upon the less successful . |
| 19 | ‘ Tell me , why do I have to pay my informants a quid or more a time while you have snouts who could buy and sell both of us and who rush to buy you drinks whenever you appear ? ’ |
| 20 | American poets can be so thunderstruck by the sheer oddity of being a poet in America at all that they often deny to the poet , in advance , any claim to represent a people or even a social class ; and classic New York drama in this century , as in the plays of Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller , has concentrated painfully and insistently on the pre-eminence of family ties and the ineluctable need of everyone in that world to be loved , as they continuously imply , by their closest relatives . |
| 21 | Newtown , Pennsylvania-based graphics chip maker Tseng Labs Inc says it is in discussions that might lead to it entering the business of development and production of audio chips : ‘ We 're talking to a lot of people in the sound area , both engineers and companies — because we do n't have any basic sound technology , we 're looking to acquire that either through people or maybe an acquisition , ’ Tseng vice-chairman Jack Gibbons explained to Reuter . |
| 22 | Yet this still means that over a thousand African languages are not heard on the radio . |
| 23 | ‘ In charge of ’ means that once a person takes a vehicle on a road or public place he normally remains in charge of that vehicle until he has taken it off the road or public place again . |
| 24 | there are many people and probably a few of you here tonight , who have been members of the Church for a long time . |
| 25 | Together they provide about 60 per cent of the housing for single people and almost a quarter of all wheelchair access dwellings . |
| 26 | One had formerly been an occupational therapy aide with elderly people and then a voluntary day centre manager ; the other had community work qualifications and experience , and had worked both in a local authority and an Age Concern setting . |
| 27 | He was good enough to be in six Walker Cup teams , sufficiently well heeled to be of independent means and later a Captain of the Royal and Ancient . |
| 28 | The soft part of the contract includes low maintenance grass areas , high quality formal rolling lawns backing onto the buildings , putting greens for use by both patients and staff and also a children 's green . |
| 29 | there would appear to be a need for closer monitoring of attendance on induction training for new academic staff and perhaps a higher priority to be given to further staff development and training of mid-career and senior staff in the area of teaching and learning-facilitating skills . |
| 30 | There were three chauffeurs on the staff and quite a few vehicles , including some Mercedes in later years . |