Example sentences of "[ex0] be [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A self certification programme for Wabi vendors starts in June — though there are reportedly only a dozen Windows applications up on it and the thing still does n't print — Wabi 1.0 will be out in the summer . |
| 2 | Er it seems to me that erm there are probably quite a few policies in the structure plan that could be omitted if we just took the all the P P Gs as read . |
| 3 | There are probably only a few crewmen on board , not combat trained . |
| 4 | There are just over a million one-parent families , including those of single mothers , single fathers and widowed or separated mothers . |
| 5 | There are just over a million one-parent families — one in seven of all families with dependent children . |
| 6 | Found only in China , there are just over a thousand left living in the wild . |
| 7 | There are also quite a few different colours ranging from black and bay ( light brown ) to grey and palomino ( cream ) . |
| 8 | There are also now a lot of good coloured alyssum mixtures . |
| 9 | There are already about a dozen people with presidential ambitions . |
| 10 | There are now over a hundred makes of micro-computer for sale in the United Kingdom , and several thriving magazines entirely devoted to these devices . |
| 11 | The supplement market is rapidly expanding and there are now over a hundred different products on the market , with new ones arriving on a regular basis ! |
| 12 | There are now almost a dozen different varieties of these cream cheeses , and the Gervais factory , at Ferrières , absorbs something like 50,000 gallons of milk daily for the demi-sel and other fresh cheeses . |
| 13 | The Finnish breed has become so popular in the USSR that there are now about a million there . |
| 14 | ‘ There are now quite a few sources from which firms can obtain this finance . ’ |
| 15 | And conversely , if you find that you 're just not a dab hand at paint techniques , or have n't got the time to find out , there are now quite a few wallpapers available which reproduce the effects , but require not painting : just hang , and you have instant sponged , rag-rolled or marbled walls ! |
| 16 | There are now quite a lot of members from the village who have joined . ’ |
| 17 | There are actually quite a few positive steps forward : for a start , and under intense pressure from environmentalists and scientists , the World Bank has begun to take into account conservation when it is approving projects for funding . |
| 18 | But there are still today a large number of means tested benefits . |
| 19 | Even when all the other newspapers in the 1985 study are added , including the local evenings and weeklies , there are still only a total of 154 rape cases mentioned in 1985 . |
| 20 | I have never shared the wild enthusiasm for anything ‘ single-bit ’ with which its arrival was greeted in some quarters ; indeed there are still only a handful of players of that ilk which I would contemplate as replacements for a good multi-bit machine , but this is one of them . |
| 21 | However , there are still quite a few rather heavily marked White Parks and sometimes a completely black calf is thrown , which is never the case with the pure Chillinghams . |
| 22 | There are still quite a few trees and bushes festooned with the fruits of last year . |
| 23 | I have the impression that there are still quite a number of anthropological research workers who conduct their enquiries by such question and answer methods , but they are gradually being superseded . |
| 24 | As a matter of fact , the hunt is a very ineffectual way of controlling foxes , er they record the number they kill and it 's very , very few , a tiny percentage of the number of foxes there are in the countryside clever foxes er , as indeed I think Mrs mentioned , live in towns nowadays er , but there are still quite a lot in the countryside fortunately and they will survive er , though zoologists tell us er that er by instinct er they see that their numbers are controlled . |
| 25 | There are only about a hundred made |
| 26 | Furthermore , there are literally only a handful of really big-time string manufacturers in the world , and a short burst of brain-power will lead you to the correct conclusion that there are a lot of companies buying strings in bulk from the big makers and putting their names on them . |
| 27 | Although not the longest reigning ( Belgium 's King Baudouin has been on the throne for 41 years ) , she is undoubtedly the most widely recognised monarch in the world ( there are currently over a billion bank notes and 16 billion coins in circulation bearing her portrait ) . |
| 28 | In all the shock and horror of such an incident there are usually quite a number of people involved and a sort of group mourning sets in which allows those people to react sometimes quite dramatically very quickly . |
| 29 | As much a part of the scenery as the granite tors are the Dartmoor ponies , and there are usually quite a few around the hut circles . |
| 30 | ‘ Rewarded ? ’ said Dickie , ‘ there were n't even a collection . |