Example sentences of "and a [noun] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George himself has deservedly achieved the status of a guru , and a year or so back was made a part time professor of medical economics at the City University . |
| 2 | They they reduce the rate , and a year or so later bring out a new account paying top rates . |
| 3 | The early death of a sibling is an event which Dally cites as being common in the histories of anorexics , and a year or so later my baby sister died of bronchial pneumonia . |
| 4 | Shortly after Anna was born her mother married , and a year or so ago her husband died leaving her the house and a little money . |
| 5 | We have a relatively high proportion of our student body that comes from overseas , and a year or so ago when the announcement was made that the fees of overseas students were going up , there was a cry that we would n't get any any more , they would all go to America or Russia or wherever . |
| 6 | erm Listeners will probably know that there has been for many years what 's called the Schools Council , which has looked at erm curriculum matters and examination matters , and a year or so ago it was decided to discontinue the Schools Council , and to replace it by two successor committees , one the School Curriculum Development Committee , which you 've already mentioned and which I chair , and a parallel committee concerned with examinations , the School Examination , sorry the Secondary Examination Council , which is chaired by a mathematician , Sir Wilfred Cockroft . |
| 7 | We waited for an hour and a quarter but then it got dark . |
| 8 | One of the boys , wearing shorts and a T-shirt and little else , climbed round the pool and up below the fairy cave . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , it was something like a castle , and he 'ad tons of servants and a butler as well , and a sister who was secretly a witch and tried to make the poor girl worship Satan , but — ’ |
| 10 | We write ‘ first version ’ because this model has recently undergone drastic revision , and a second and rather different version now exists . |
| 11 | There is a thirst for conspicuous consumption and a consumerism as yet only briefly sampled . |
| 12 | With that she was gone and a minute or so later , they heard the crack of a whip and the sound of horses ' hooves as the coach pulled away . |
| 13 | I was gon na get well I 'm contemplating but I 'm either getting four cans of Strongbow and a bottle or just eight cans of Strongbow . |
| 14 | And a road and then fields . |
| 15 | The chemist had to be a craftsman and a cook as well as a thinker ; only the chemical balance was beyond the capacity of the resourceful scientist to make . |
| 16 | And a present as well ! ’ |
| 17 | They might say well , put new in , you know , but gon na save them an arm and a leg and maybe we can ah , either negotiate something definite or |
| 18 | This kind of exercise can build up a certain caution in approaching a document , and a realisation that not everything is to be taken at face value . |
| 19 | ‘ Like making sure there were separate shower facilities and a chaperon if only one girl was attending at any one time . ’ |
| 20 | It is nonsense for us to debate such matters in Committee for an hour and a half and then , at the end of the debate , we vote not on the merits of the matter but on whether it has been considered . |
| 21 | it seems to me that often , especially with this committee er start at half ten we get to about half twelve and everyone starts shuffling and think of their lunch and often not so much recently , but in , in , in , over the last five years there have been issues I think it almost left you on because it was so close to lunch , er and people did n't then want to have to break for an hour , hour and a half and then come back , whereas if you start at two fifteen erm I think it 's easier to go on till half four , five seems to be to go to this psychological one o'clock barrier , seems to er upset people greatly agitation and er their argument is th th that er that in the afternoon |
| 22 | then they , it 'll be a mega band for singing for an hour , hour and a half , but what they 've speculated is that , Queen 's gon na be on there for an hour , hour and a half and then the |
| 23 | Depends what er this time of year about three and a half and then four in the winter . |
| 24 | Oh yeah all the all the hits er like er Bunch of Time and and Maggie and Old Flames and after all these years , if did n't do those you 'd be shot afterwards like but er what we do with the songs that that were like you know hit singles and that people really come to hear we make sure that you know that we do those and then we put in er you know what we think would be the favourite ones from albums and then we add in a sprinkling of the stuff from the new album so you know we give them a good cross-section for an hour and a half and then we have a good first half of the show as well we 've got first half of the show as well and our band go on with him for forty minutes and er they perform as well a few soloists and er then Tony and myself come on and we do an hour and a half and we go right everything we do on stage we have recorded at some time , we do n't do something that we have n't recorded . |
| 25 | Since the conferences lasted an hour and a half or longer and some of his individual answers took twenty-five minutes to deliver , this was a prodigious effort . |
| 26 | The standard charge is set by the local council , and can be zero , one half , equal to , one and a half or twice the cost of the personal community charge in the area . |
| 27 | er they only pay sort of one and a half or twice that 's the , that 's the purpose of the Tories |
| 28 | Just a couple of miles from San Gimignano on the road to Certaldo , a turning on the left leads on amidst fields , olive groves and vineyards for a further mile and a half or so to the tiny hamlet of Pancole . |
| 29 | ‘ They will arrive at twelve and stay probably for an hour and a half or so . |
| 30 | It was a very low-budget British picture , shot at Pinewood studios in black and white and sought to do little more than provide an entertaining hour and a half or so , with a topic to which a great many people could relate — National Service . |