Example sentences of "for a [adj] fish " in BNC.
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| 1 | Want to know the tyre width of a certain Soviet tank , the Latin name for a tropical fish , or the Bay City Rollers ' Seventies tour dates ? |
| 2 | New Scientist , the jokers , headed an article on the prospects for a popular fish , ‘ Britain 's native trout is floundering ’ . |
| 3 | It was thought that if the balls of soft paste were boiled , long enough to toughen the outer surface , but not for too long so that the inner remained soft , there would still be plenty of flavour left in the bait to serve its purpose , and sufficient toughness to make it extremely difficult for a smaller fish to take the bait in smaller portions . |
| 4 | More often than not you have to work hard for a few fish . |
| 5 | Easy to get carried away if someone is bidding against you for a particular fish . |