Example sentences of "piece of [noun sg] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another piece of coincidence even the helium traces were explained ; they had nothing to do with hydrogen fusion.l |
| 2 | It was a gargantuan task : each year a piece of woodland approximately the size of a tennis court was brought into the garden . |
| 3 | Robert Savage referred to it as a box-iron piece , a piece of land roughly the shape of an old fashioned box-iron used for smoothing linen ; and he related that the old ploughmen used to refer to the ploughing of this type of field as goring work . |
| 4 | Then you can put the test on a piece of paper just the questions and I 'm going to give the piece of paper to somebody else to answer . |
| 5 | Even if you ca n't find or afford tall elegant pieces of furniture much the same effect can be produced with a tall plant or lamp , wall-fixed shelving , mirrors and , of course , pictures . |