Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coronation Street , half past seven till eight , Rumpole from nine to ten so you can come out between eight and nine and ten and ele le le le eight and nine and ten and eleven , so you got time for couple between eight and nine and a couple between ten and eleven , how 's that ? |
| 2 | Although DLOs have survived , Stoker ( 1988 , p. 186 ) notes that there was a 22.5 per cent fall in numbers employed between 1980 and 1985 and a 17.7 per cent fall in value of output over the same period . |
| 3 | of its manufacturing jobs between 1979 and 1989 and a further 3,600 jobs since then ? |
| 4 | With a deficit of 552 and thirteen and a quarter hours left , obviously only the weather was going to save England , so there was not the least justification for the barrage of short balls that Holding and Roberts hurled at Edrich and Close . |
| 5 | But no , Jessie had to be something else ; Jessie had to be sent to the Secretarial School : no getting her hands sticky from the toffee hammer , breaking up the slabs in the long tins ; no weighing out a ha'p'orth of hundreds and thousands or a penn'orth of sugar baccy ; and as for the weighing out of the real baccy , of hard cut or shag or even serving the best cigars , oh no , oh no , her father was having Jessie do nothing like that . |
| 6 | He deduced that carbon had a combining power ( valency ) of four or two and a unique capacity for joining itself to other atoms of its own kind , the secret of the existence of millions of organic ( carbon ) compounds . |
| 7 | Dakletons have a crew of seven or eight and a patrol time of six hours . |
| 8 | The DoT told the House of Commons transport committee that nearly 1300 joints had been replaced between 1975 and 1982 and a further 750 still had to be replaced . |
| 9 | ( 1979 ) produced isopleths of precipitation acidity for selected periods which revealed increasing acidity between 1955–6 and 1975–6 and an enlargement of the area affected by acid precipitation in eastern North America . |
| 10 | A matrix is not a simple scalar quantity like 2 or 8 and a special technique is needed to carry out the operation of raising a matrix to the power n . |
| 11 | He is most relaxed when he is in the converted barn in Devon that is now his painting studio ; it is stone-floored and filled with light and quiet as a church . |
| 12 | There are several types of capital ; a version of Ionic as in 82 and 83 and a Doric ( or Tuscan ) which developed from the early bulbous form ( VII ) to a more sophisticated version ( VIII ) . |
| 13 | There were few air raids in 1942 and 1943 and a more or less normal tram service could be maintained in Croydon . |
| 14 | An Oxford rugby blue in 1959 and 1960 and a keen sailor , Sir Robin , 54 , is remembered by many Whitehall contemporaries as the shrewd captain of the Mandarins cricket team which he led for many years . |
| 15 | In addition to the state pension , people may receive a graduated pension based on earnings between 1961 and 1975 and/or an additional state earnings related pension ( SERPS ) if they have worked after 1978 . |
| 16 | At the same time he tried to make an economic case for expenditure in that area : ‘ Moreover , from the trade point of view , this area was probably worth between one and one and a half million employed men to this country . |
| 17 | thanks Mr chairman an or between one and two and an and between two and three please . |
| 18 | From a frightening ratio of expenditure to fares revenue of four to one , the ratio has improved to better than two and a half to one and it is stili improving . |
| 19 | These communities have an average population of between 200 and 700 and an economic base of agriculture plus some light industry . |
| 20 | We 've got inflation that I , it looks to be pressing perhaps to three , three and a half per cent , between four and three and a half per cent . |
| 21 | Will my hon. Friend commend as compulsory reading part of our proceedings in Committee when for the first time hon. Members listened for two or two and a half hours to — |
| 22 | Blackmore dropped shots at the first and second but by the turn was two under due to birdies at four and five and an eagle three at the ninth . |
| 23 | in devoted to news and public affairs features between 1927 and 1937 and a percentage increase of 6% ! |
| 24 | ‘ Out , ’ said Edwards with a nerve sharpened by cold and more than an hour in the company of Mrs Kathy Grogan . |
| 25 | The commissions are to strive to ensure that no constituency varies from this quota by more or less than a quarter of it . |