Example sentences of "a [adv] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 In the male , maturity is achieved a little later as a rule — around the fifteenth to sixteenth year , but
2 The advance of American interest in Britain was underlined a little later with a request to the embassy in London for an assessment of that country 's likely value in a global struggle against communism .
3 The method is for , say , a West Indian to pretend to apply for an advertised job and then to be followed a little later by a white person applying for the same job .
4 A follower of Linnaeus ' system would describe a plant a little differently from a devotee of the more natural methods of Ray or Tournefort , for example .
5 That she would be a little less like a young woman .
6 Push and stretch a little further for a count of 25 .
7 Push and stretch a little further for a count of 25 .
8 Push and stretch a little further for a count of 25 .
9 Hold for 1 second in that extreme position , then push and stretch a little further for a count of 25 .
10 Push and stretch a little further for a count of 25 .
11 Push and stretch a little further for a count of 25 .
12 Push and stretch a little further for a count of 25 .
13 Push and stretch a little further for a count of 30 .
14 A little further on a surprisingly clean rag doll caught her eye , which she recognized .
15 He was fairly sure that he remembered the cottage , nearly three miles along a track into the woods , close by an abandoned quarry and a little further from a small coalmine once worked by four of his distant cousins .
16 Let me tell you a little more about a couple of them .
17 They are prepared to pay a little more for a better quality of service .
18 Have you ever paid a little more for a better seat at the theatre , and thus enjoyed a far more memorable evening ?
19 For really top class Joplin you need pay only a little more for a selection from Dick Hyman 's complete survey mentioned above , but at less than a fiver , Arpin 's disc will do very nicely for a representative sample of Joplin — which is really all I can take in a single sitting !
20 Inspector Ghote , I once remarked a little pretentiously to an interviewer , c'est moi .
21 Er , the honourable gentleman wondered whether we would ever have a truncated view again , certainly not under the ninety three legislation because that was a once off as a careful reading of the act will show , er but er we will erm and his honourable friend , the member for Perry Barns hoped er that er we would have no more reviews of European boundaries , I know because he was talking at P R but we will certainly have one new review of er er Euro constituency boundaries because as soon as the parliamentary boundaries are completed er we will have to go into a new review on that basis of all the European seats and of course the full enquiries will be held in the normal way for them .
22 Ding Dong Bell is another good nursery rhyme , and for this make a well out of a round piece of sponge cake laying on its side .
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