Example sentences of "an abundance of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except at weekends in the summer when the crowds would come and spread themselves in an abundance of activity on the grass . |
| 2 | While experience may show that certain tasks were not as good discriminators as others there is likely to be an abundance of evidence over the three-year period for teachers to use . |
| 3 | Llanelli were indebted to Tony Copsey , who won an abundance of ball in the middle of the line-out , while the young Scott Quinnell , son of Derek , had a storming game at No 8 and looks destined to play international rugby . |
| 4 | An abundance of sunbeds around the most spectacular pool you 'll ever see beckon you to unwind with the gentle lapping of the sea as background music . |
| 5 | She had never been to Ireland and said that she had never read anything about that country , and yet she was able to supply an abundance of detail about the way of life in that place at an earlier time . |
| 6 | She had an abundance of tales from the old colonial days , when she had been cook for a white family . |
| 7 | Reports of an abundance of whales in the Southern Ocean brought European whalers south during the late 19th century , when scientific exploration of the continent also began ( Hayes , 1932 ) . |
| 8 | I noticed , too , something that surprised me : an abundance of images of the sea . |