Example sentences of "and [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drakes have a low often wheezy whistle , and ducks a harsh growling ‘ kurrr , kurrr ’ |
| 2 | Given that on average each Spaniard eats 66 pounds of fish and seafood a year , and much of it comes from Galicia , you 'd expect to see a lot there . |
| 3 | For Spengler , democracy was a sham and parliament a front for external forces who ruled by other means . |
| 4 | To the south and west a secure boundary was provided by the sheer cliffs and jagged rocks of St Saviour 's Point , while running right down to the edge of the cliffs and enclosing the whole of the rest of the property was a high stone wall built two centuries before by Edmund Roscarrock , the founder of the family line . |
| 5 | There is a parallel between East and West a slippery slope that we dare not set foot on . |
| 6 | Quite a lot it seems : 44.1% spent between £500 and £1,000 a person on their last holiday and 22.1% spent between £1,001 and £2,500 . |
| 7 | Her parents , dad a solicitor and mum a former Welsh international , are watching with her brother as she beats Jennifer Santrock . |
| 8 | Her parents , dad a solicitor and mum a former Welsh international , are watching with her brother as she beats Jennifer Santrock . |
| 9 | He won a substantial increase in the arts settlement for 1991/92 , giving the Arts Council a 11% rise and the national museums and galleries a 8.5% rise . |
| 10 | Research by Professor Quinn Mills , a US management expert at Harvard Business School , shows that organisations that unleash the creativity of their workforce can routinely achieve productivity gains of between 30% and 50% a year . |
| 11 | John Kenny played with drama and panache a whole range of effects from his first entry , in which his breath metamorphosed into sound , to talking and singing while playing and producing chords . |
| 12 | If you are especially concerned about cutting fat intake but do n't need to lose weight , you should look at the figures for fat and aim to eat no more than 93g a day ( for a man ) and 70g a day ( for a woman ) . |
| 13 | I 'd given Luke and Ma a few problems . |
| 14 | I remember Malc 's rum punch days ( rum — and punch anything ) and his Yorkshire lad days ( 14 pints , a black pudding and domino puke ) ; now he 's matured to a steady G. & T. In the absence of Lucozade I order a Coke and Kenneth a beer , and after ten minutes of chat we leave for our appointment , promising to rejoin them later . |
| 15 | The regular production of films featuring these performers gave their production companies some sort of economic foundation to build on , as well as allowing producers like Balcon and Dean a glimpse of what a popular British cinema might achieve . |
| 16 | A large area , part wooded and part a rocky summit , situated just north of Broombriggs on B.591 , providing a fine viewpoint over a large part of the Midlands . |
| 17 | Each year in February and March a different decade is remembered , with the festival reaching its climax in the year 2000 . |
| 18 | Finally , for both Wimsatt and Brooks a defining characteristic of poetry was irony . |
| 19 | Orchard Park one of BMK 's best known ranges and Royal Highland were each given 3 and Fjord a beautiful plain range has 4 new colours . |
| 20 | One of them comes tottering up to him , falls , and pitches a red plastic fire-engine at his feet . |
| 21 | A week 's accommodation costs between £15 in low season and £48 a person . |
| 22 | Labour consumer affairs spokesman Nigel Griffiths has given Sega and Nintendo a three-week deadline to act . |
| 23 | And they may be asked to play the role of " devil 's advocate " , preventing forecasters and marketers a like from becoming complacent and insular , losing sight of the continuous impact of the external environment on the business . |
| 24 | For the Government 's part , each year it will publish a ‘ Forward Look ’ that will give industrialists and researchers a clear and up-to-date statement of the Government 's strategy . |
| 25 | In the summer of 1789 , after Wordsworth had become an undergraduate at St John 's College , Cambridge , a long visit to Dorothy at their uncle 's house in Norfolk confirmed between brother and sister a profound emotional sympathy which remained with them through life , and made them certain that , one day , they wished to share a home . |
| 26 | And they er locked us out until we 'd go back for ten and thruppence a day , so of course we did n't go back . |
| 27 | And the wages were seven and thruppence a week . |
| 28 | At ten and thruppence a week . |
| 29 | When I went home a when I was started at ten and thruppence a week , it was a regula regulation in the family that the spending money erm basis , what you got for spending , was a penny in the shilling . |
| 30 | Because another one was er we come down the houses in here , empty houses and in , in the summer they used to grow flowers , Marguerites , and we used to go in the backyard , we were n't supposed to , er and cut these flowers and make them into bunches and , and sell them for tuppence and thruppence a bunch . |