Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] one [coord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A transfer tribunal has valued Swindon Town 's former captain Colin Calderwood at one and a quarter million pounds . |
| 2 | The sheet metal workers , who cut sheet metal to the design of the drawings of the part of a car , earned 2s 6d ( 12p ) per hour , and did a lot of overtime at one and a quarter time , which means that many of them would have been earning £6 or £7 per week , and be well over the arbitrary divide of £4 suggested as a line for the divide between the working class and the middle class . |
| 3 | The designer can remove the violation by one or a combination of three courses of action . |
| 4 | If you are using Fisherman 's rib or tuck stitch , the fabric will stretch widthways when removed from the machine , so you will need to increase the stitch by one and a half or two numbers to prevent a tight cast off . |
| 5 | Although this fragment size could conceivably represent an internal exon splice indicating the presence of one and a half type III repeats being spliced , sequence analysis of the cloned 650bp fragment from the different cell types did not correspond to any of the known tenascin type III repeats . |
| 6 | They do a run of one and a half to two hours , then return for breakfast . |
| 7 | er they only pay sort of one and a half or twice that 's the , that 's the purpose of the Tories |
| 8 | Furthermore , if we take seriously Black 's claim that his specimen metaphor ‘ man is a wolf ’ serves at once to render man wolf-like and to humanize wolves , a reversible metaphor could be imagined at the level of a word , a sentence , or a discourse in which each term was engaged in a metaphoric interaction with one or a number of other terms , organizing them , structuring them and in turn being structured by them . |
| 9 | It has large capels with a pound sign on one and a dollar sign on the other . |
| 10 | The size of one and a half football pitches when it 's completed in November next year it will have not only space but air conditioning , an education room and laboratory for the conservationists . |
| 11 | An outward journey on one and a return by the other would make a great expedition . |
| 12 | The role of providers , ie directly managed units , self-governing hospitals and private suppliers , is stated to be the delivery of ‘ contracted services within quality and quantity specification to one or a number of clients in return for agreed levels of income ’ ( DoH , 1989f ) . |
| 13 | The ‘ keys ’ or trigger features required to ‘ unlock ’ these two types of cell are rather simple — it is just a matter of applying a small stimulus in the right place , and giving it the correct sign , an increase for one and a decrease for the other . |
| 14 | As a rough guide the reception distance can be found by multiplying the square root of your altitude by one and a quarter . |