Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what I said , to do that and hope for a three or a six or another five or a king . |
| 2 | Although little more than a sketch , his work helped inspire John Wilkins 's An Essay Towards a Real Character ( 1668 ) , in which Wilkins acknowledges his indebtedness to Lodwick . |
| 3 | Since there was little or no lending to the Government during the year 1967/68 , it follows that that billion and a half of expenditure was financed from one of two sources . |
| 4 | She is fifteen years his junior , and little more than a housekeeper and unpaid bedslave . |
| 5 | This is no more than the flight time to Mexico city , with which Merida lacked road and rail communication until little more than a generation ago . |
| 6 | On the following day the Országgyülés adopted a new law on internal security , including strict controls on the use of telephone and mail surveillance , after hearing acting Interior Minister Zoltan Pál admit that covert monitoring of the opposition had continued until little more than a week before , and that documents relating to the scandal had been shredded in defiance of a government order to secure all files for investigation . |
| 7 | Just and all these and a couple of a key sixes their playing . |
| 8 | How is a teacher or course-organiser to decide between one version and the other or , indeed , between these two versions and any other that a linguist might draw up ? |
| 9 | Executive Secretary Peter Garrucho , a key aide of the newly elected Philippine President Fidel Ramos , resigned from the Cabinet on Aug. 10 , after little more than a month in office . |