Example sentences of "[be] [prep] a [adj] and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , we know that April was a low figure , we also know that July and August are low a figure which comes out from this graph and was given to me by the director yesterday , is a genuine average which is turning out to be between a hundred and a hundred and ten placements per month twelve hundred to fourteen hundred placements per year a thr over a three year average residency period three thousand six hundred to four thousand two hundred placements in residential care , where then is the real problem . |
| 2 | I managed to get rid of about eighty and if we do sell these extra what twenty or thirty that 's going to be between a hundred and a hundred and fifty pounds profit . |
| 3 | Tonight we find out what the effects would be of a seventeen and a half per cent tax on books and newspapers . |
| 4 | It will be a choice of ends , for example , even if forgotten a moment later , when he chokes back an erupting laugh at a slip by an important man , the choice being between a momentary and a long-term goal , the latter of which the other man could jeopardize . |
| 5 | The hours worked in the late 1970s were between a third and a quarter longer than those in all the other railways studied by the BR/Leeds team ( 1980 : 15 ) . |
| 6 | The last time that sea had covered that area was between a hundred and a hundred and thirty million years ago . |