Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The band plays for quite a bit . |
| 2 | The baby sleeps for about an hour from 11 till 12 — I 'm afraid I read a book then — I do n't do very much housework ! |
| 3 | From forty thousand pounds worth of designer garden to patio displays for just a few pounds — there 's something for everyone . |
| 4 | The Society has for over a year objected strongly to the plan under which the current arrangements for remunerating solicitors on the basis of work actually done are to be replaced by a standard fee scheme from April . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's very thick with the new master , Humphrey Morris , which counts for quite a lot , ’ Bridget said thoughtfully . |
| 6 | Looks like just a test strip . |
| 7 | Looks like quite a long meeting . |
| 8 | okay so it , yeah it looks like quite a reasonable number of people possibly |
| 9 | The savage , debased , and bestial presences which attack virtue , may undermine its integrity because the potential to degenerate into villainy lies within even a nobleman . |
| 10 | From the great cities in the east to the spectacular Niagara Falls , the Eastern Explorer will offer you a wealth of changing vistas as mile upon mile of your journey unfolds from inside a comfortable motorcoach . |
| 11 | The basic DataEase is for 640Kb PCs with no Extended memory and will run on 8088/8086 machines ; DE16MB.EXE can use up to 16Mb of Extended memory and needs at least a 286 with 1 Mb of RAM . |
| 12 | Their debts are now more than £6.5m and chairman Sir John Hall says he needs at least a week to draw up another rescue package before he and his fellow directors will be in a position to open talks with Kevin Keegan about the vacant manager 's position . |
| 13 | There are suggestions it has at least a 2.5 per cent shareholding . |
| 14 | But as regards his goods and chattels , which include his leaseholds , it is early admitted that he has at least a limited power to dispose by will — limited because his wife and children may have rights which he can not override . |
| 15 | On the other hand numerous studies have shown that clay from one locality , if not always of a single composition , has at least a reasonably uniform and limited compositional range , whereas clays from different locations ( towns , countries , continents ) have different chemical compositions because they reflect differences in the underlying geology . |
| 16 | The Combsburgh High School stages a Christmas pantomime in which every young Jack and Jill ( or Wayne and Tracy as they are all called today ) has at least a walk-on part . |
| 17 | The explanation of this is to be found in the matters propounded in Chapter One , that is , that members of the human race have a deeply felt need for a ‘ god ’ and a religion , and as almost everybody is reared within a family or group with some kind of religious background , each has at least a lingering allegiance to some form of established religion . |
| 18 | VMS also offers the best clustering facilities and host functionality , and has at least a measure of openness with the addition of VMS Posix compliance . |
| 19 | SCOTLAND now has at least a tenuous connection with the WBC heavyweight championship contest between the holder , Lennox Lewis , and Tommy Tucker in Las Vegas in May . |
| 20 | ‘ Any Englishman , ’ said Thiercelin between sips , ‘ who is drifting about Vienna at present , supposedly as a tourist , has at least an even chance of being one of Pitt 's spies . |
| 21 | Whilst all school knowledge has at least an implicit pedagogy this tradition places the ‘ way the child learns ’ as the central concern in devising subject content . |
| 22 | She has at least an hour a day on it . |
| 23 | It seems its very high speeds are only achieved occasionally , when pursuing food or escaping , and it normally cruises at about a third or a half of its rapid dashes . |
| 24 | I know that the Consolidated Fund Bill allows for only a short debate , but there will be other opportunities for raising the matter , including tomorrow . |
| 25 | Nothing happens for quite a while , then the rod-tip trembles , so I hold the rod in one hand and the line in the other . |
| 26 | It happens with only a handful of Members in their places and achieves little , if any , coverage by the media . |
| 27 | There is an activity which will take a great deal of your time as a student , which is of crucial importance to your success and which passes with hardly a mention on many courses — we refer , of course , to note-taking . |
| 28 | Pre-exposure to a novel flavour normally results in both a reduction of neophobia and in a reduction of the ability of that flavour to serve as a CS in flavour-aversion conditioning . |
| 29 | It has previously been shown that infiltration of lymphocytes in the submucosa occurs within only a few hours after gliadin challenge . |
| 30 | This allows at least a reasonable throughput of air ; the mid-day temperatures are usually around 80 to 100°F , sometimes more . |