Example sentences of "exactly a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'm not exactly a chicken any more , dear . |
| 2 | But it has obviously been forgotten that a near-similar system was in place almost exactly a century ago — the submarine cable system , a communicative technique in which the British were supreme . |
| 3 | At £5 per quarter , this rarity is not exactly a budget snack , but with a focaccia still warm from the oven and accompanied by a few herb-steeped olives , it could be the most extraordinary sandwich you ever eat . |
| 4 | A World Championship conker must be exactly a week old , any less and it is too soft and if it lies any longer , the inside shrivels up . |
| 5 | The outstanding ties are the visit of Barnet , who almost made the Fourth Division twice in recent seasons , to Cambridge City 's four-year-old stadium ; a derby between Dover and Folkestone , who had four players sent off against Redhill in the previous round ; and , by a nice coincidence , the meeting of Bishop Auckland , defectors to the HFS Loans League , and South Bank , loyal to their roots , almost exactly a century on from their historic match . |
| 6 | Nor is it exactly a movement for westernisation . |
| 7 | And , exactly a quarter of a century ago today , Nikita Khrushchev fell . |
| 8 | But in October 1951 , when Ramsey had professed at Cambridge for exactly a year , Churchill came back to power . |
| 9 | But it could not have happened to anyone else , she was almost forgetting that this had not been exactly a freak accident in the way that everyone thought . |
| 10 | He had to ask what exactly a director was . |
| 11 | The ‘ mass-produced ’ Healey was n't exactly a limo , but it was a bit bigger on creature comforts than the steadfastly spartan , hand-built Cobra . |
| 12 | It was n't exactly a copybook launch , though by no means was everything within Ford 's control . |
| 13 | An advertising campaign that went on about the law of averages did n't seem to help when much of the press criticism rounded on the Escort as exactly a car for Mr Average . |
| 14 | Patrolling the Ku-damm in the heart of West Berlin is n't exactly a hardship . |
| 15 | There has been strong speculation that Pepsi Cola are putting up the money but David Murray , Rangers ' owner and chairman who bought the club exactly a year ago yesterday , is giving nothing away . |
| 16 | Exactly a week later I suddenly went to Oxford by the most impossible train which stopped at every station . |
| 17 | EXACTLY a year to the day after the Clapham rail disaster , the 6.20am Wessex Electrics express from Poole drew into Waterloo station without a two-way radio in the driver 's cab . |
| 18 | AZEGLIO VICINI is not exactly a typical Italian , even less is he a typical Italian national team manager . |
| 19 | AZEGLIO VICINI is not exactly a typical Italian , even less is he a typical Italian national team manager . |
| 20 | Exactly a year ago , I celebrated the ‘ new innocence ’ of ‘ anorak ’ groups like The Pastels , James , and The Bodines . |
| 21 | It may be some comfort to know that short-termism is not exactly a new concern . |
| 22 | No , it 's not exactly a joke out there . |
| 23 | With the new Conservative Government in 1979 , Ken Stowe moved from Downing Street to become Permanent Secretary in the Northern Ireland Office — not exactly a rest cure — and in 1981 came back to the DHSS . |
| 24 | Night marches now and then to keep the men fit — not exactly a picnic doing twenty miles at night over cobbles . |
| 25 | None of the figures on any of the regulatory bodies was exactly a spring chicken , and none could be called a radical . |
| 26 | EXACTLY a fortnight after his unscheduled South Bank recital debut , when he was invited at the last minute to take over from the indisposed Krystian Zimerman , the young Argentinian pianist Nelson Goerner was back at the Festival Hall to replace the temperamental Martha Argerich in a Mozart concerto with the Philharmonia and conductor Claus Peter Flor . |
| 27 | I suppose I 'm not surprised , upon getting the bill , to find our stay is n't exactly a bargain — £138.60 for dinner , bed and breakfast for two . |
| 28 | Another spring masterpiece is a baby sole served on the bone so that its glutinous quality matches exactly a beurre blanc made of sherry and Madeira . |
| 29 | And that exactly a century ago , the fifth Earl sold his splendid library to Mrs John Rylands , who gave it to Manchester ( though the university has since broken the spirit of the benefaction by selling part of it ) . |
| 30 | After all , though the gains were impressive , the market is back only to where it was before the Budget exactly a month earlier . |