Example sentences of "[adj] [det] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By taking four years within our period , each half a century apart , one sees them glaringly clearly . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | What 's this half a day then ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | An unpublished autobiographical memoir , kept from 1686 till near his death , and running to some half a million words , reveals a florid fantasy life . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Some half a million of our sons lie in Flanders fields — our sacrifice against tyranny in Europe . |
| 15 | The winner is set to be some half a million pounds better off . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For every person who lost their job , there are another half a dozen who are frightened it will be their turn next . |
| 19 | 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 … . |
| 20 | She shrugged , knowing the name would do him no good , since she would n't be born for another half a millennium . |
| 21 | After ascending for another half a mile the line dropped steeply into the quarry . |
| 22 | Tomorrow , we 'll be about twenty miles and another half a dozen locks further on . |
| 23 | Seven more stores have been completely refitted and a further eighty four thousand square feet of surplus space has been sub-leased to other retailers increasing our rental income by another half a million pounds . |
| 24 | Because they phone me up and said , Look we needed another half a page in this for us to get another hundred pound . |
| 25 | I I do n't agree with another half a dozen or eight cars coming out of that . |
| 26 | A report from the Srebrenica Press Centre received in Sarajevo yesterday said the Serb offensive was continuing and Serb forces had advanced another half a mile into the area held by Bosnian forces . |
| 27 | I mean really what he should have done if it , if it was that difficult he should have gone back another half a brick and the j bricked it up all the way |
| 28 | turn right there and go about half half a mile , three quarters of a mile down , you got The Yacht pub |
| 29 | He card-indexed half a million radicals just after the First World War , sent agents to intimidate newspapers which dared suggest , in the Thirties , that the banks were not entirely sound , arrested fighters in the Spanish Civil War long after the war was done . |
| 30 | This was infrequent in the units participating in this study , but in centres where the relative surgical and endoscopic expertise is different such a situation may well arise more commonly . |