Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] a [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 Forty pence out of a pound what would that , roughly is it about half or about a quarter or what ?
2 Wycliffe said : ‘ In 1931 , as I work it out , Garland would have been twenty-one and already a husband and father . ’
3 Inch loss from others varied according to their size but those with a 34–36 inch bust measurement either lost nothing at all or only an inch or an inch and a half .
4 , Thomas ( fl. 1589–1638 ) , land surveyor , was certainly practising by 1589 and possibly a year or two earlier .
5 On Aug. 27 Lord Owen ( who as David Owen had been UK Foreign Secretary in the Labour government in 1977-79 and subsequently a founder and then leader of the Social Democratic Party ) was named as Carrington 's successor .
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