Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course , Couples has n't had that outstanding a career , so far . |
| 2 | Each sorry a slorry slurred whine . |
| 3 | And if I could put that half a million pounds in context , as I tried to do in an amendment in Council yesterday evening , that is almost exactly the increase in charging for people going to day care facilities . |
| 4 | Blue larkspur against a table-slip of faded mauve velvet , oh ! how unutterably delicious it is to tired eyes For half-a-crown , one of those gigantic glazed brown earthenware jugs ( filled with cream ) and for 5 ½d. each half a dozen tiny ones to match . |
| 5 | By taking four years within our period , each half a century apart , one sees them glaringly clearly . |
| 6 | Harpin , for example , follows the traditional primary curriculum model of writing , distinguishing only the creative and the factual , but admits that this a weakness in his work . |
| 7 | Another pussy-whipped judge has given some broad a ten-bob fine for murdering the milkman — premenstrual tension , PMT . |
| 8 | Then open the bag and add a cupful of aquarium water , followed by another cupful a few minutes later . |
| 9 | This team won 15–0 in a foreign friendly a few weeks ago , they are out for blood . |
| 10 | So if in A one to A four , you got the numbers one hundred thousand , that 'll use sixteen bytes for the block , plus four times eight forty eight a total for this cells . |
| 11 | Lot forty eight a Style number six now showing , thank you , Lot forty eight and I have three hundred offered , three twenty , three fifty three hundred and fifty pounds , any more at three fifty ? |
| 12 | I managed to keep afloat then till , as I said we found this half a lifeboat and there was couple of fellows and er I managed to swim over to that and pull myself up on it and for there the inflatable off the standby boat came alongside , picked us up and put us on then standby boat . |
| 13 | What 's this half a day then ? |
| 14 | Ceramic chip packaging specialist and OEM printer and personal computer manufacturer Kyocera Corp says it plans to cut its total workforce to 13,000 by shedding 1,000 jobs over the next three years to cope with a possible rise in the yen to 100 to the dollar ; the cuts will be achieved by reducing annual recruitment of graduates and normal retirement of some 700 a year , the company explained . |
| 15 | Regardless of whether this critic has inadvertently recommended some English a cappella recordings in the very act of eloquently disparaging them , every listener , both in England and abroad , will know what the phrase ‘ overwhelming grisaille ’ is intended to convey . |
| 16 | The town itself lay some half a mile distant , its gentle grey houses clustered , in a hollow , on each side of the twining silver river , like a flock of drowsy sheep . |
| 17 | The well educated and well to do AB readers , 12 — 17 per cent of the population , were most likely to choose among some half a dozen papers . |
| 18 | The Department will be connected via a private telephone line to the processing units in the computer room which is some half a mile distant . |
| 19 | The third category has been characterized as queen 's bishops , owing their promotion largely to her influence and forming a party deliberately constructed by her over some half a dozen years ; but this view does not survive close scrutiny since only two of the alleged party were even remotely indebted to Isabella for their appointments . |
| 20 | The FRES estimates that their members might have had about 60,000 temporaries on the payroll at any one time in 1985 ( a figure broadly consistent with the LFS data ) , but that some half a million persons might have worked for an agency for some period in the course of that year ( interview with FRES ) . |
| 21 | An unpublished autobiographical memoir , kept from 1686 till near his death , and running to some half a million words , reveals a florid fantasy life . |
| 22 | The structure of this is interesting as over the last few years most software house have added default actions , verbs or options to their interface — Sierra have almost taken the opposite course by simplifying their system which now has a basic choice of some half a dozen actions . |
| 23 | Some half a million of our sons lie in Flanders fields — our sacrifice against tyranny in Europe . |
| 24 | The winner is set to be some half a million pounds better off . |
| 25 | This too was a major piece of engineering , some half a mile long and eighteen feet wide , and making use of an estimated 4,000 oak trees . |
| 26 | After another half a minute , the power is passed to the third person and so on until everyone has had a turn at passing the power . |
| 27 | For every person who lost their job , there are another half a dozen who are frightened it will be their turn next . |
| 28 | Lay me on another half a gram ’ … and they 'd go , ‘ Alright ’ … in the end , you 'd owe them a coupla grams and you 'd have to go shoplifting in Chester or something 'cos you could n't go round town in case they were there … . |
| 29 | She shrugged , knowing the name would do him no good , since she would n't be born for another half a millennium . |
| 30 | After ascending for another half a mile the line dropped steeply into the quarry . |