Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The FRCC guidebook says : ‘ A route years ahead of its time . |
| 2 | Lakoff had described ‘ women 's language ’ ( its main characteristics are reviewed in Chapter 3 ) as a variety girls learn in the course of early childhood socialisation . |
| 3 | They can have far reaching consequence in the development of an organism , e.g. one error of a base results in haemoglobin S being produced which results in sickle cell anaemia . |
| 4 | SUNDERLAND are staging three £100 opens tonight , including a trial stakes for the forthcoming £2,000-to-the-winner Milligans Bakery Challenge Trphy , which starts a week tonight . |
| 5 | This security alarm plug from POWERBREAKER has a battery in it , which powers a loud alarm — telling you when a fuse blows or the power fails , even through the plug being accidentally pulled . |
| 6 | Anatomy of a recession Businesses responded to a ‘ mild downturn ’ with sharp cutbacks in output and investment . |
| 7 | Raising £12,000 for charity in a recession demands imagination and determination , two characteristics that the Amersham practice of Wilkins Kennedy have in abundance . |
| 8 | A kitchen fittings firm is closing three factory units with the loss of two jobs . |
| 9 | This time the District Councils collect it from Community Charges payers , and whether you had a rating systems in place at the moment , or whether you have Community Charge , Bob and his high spending friends would still have to rein in their expenditure and recognise that the people of Oxfordshire can not keep paying for his profligacy . |
| 10 | A case reports and clinical-epidemiological studies have evaluated the cancer risk in patients who have abused anthranoid laxatives over a long period . |
| 11 | As will be seen below , the position is different with regard to loss of amenities : in such a case damages are awarded for the lost amenity even if the plaintiff is not aware of the loss . |
| 12 | I worked for a , for a like a , it 's a money brokers in , in London but exactly the same stockbroking , and it was exactly like the film , you know , they had this , they had this room , like they had one of those long rooms as well you know with all the desks and computers and stuff but they had this one enclosed off room where all the dealers sat round this massive like circular console type table , and like they were all under thirty but like overweight , all c driving Porsches and taking coke and shit like this and right they just , they got into the office at something like six in the morning like I 'd get in at nine and I 'd be , be wandering around they 'd just have their trousers open , shoes off , |
| 13 | Yeah , what about the fucking night that we did two and a bit hours and the other little bits and pieces that we 've been fucking doing it , |
| 14 | I 've got a tutorial shortly , and I ought to sober up a bit betweentimes . ’ |
| 15 | The Marina hood was priced competitively at £26 and the two Triton tubes and lighting units a further £34 , a bit prices for my budget , but correct lighting is so important for overall presentation that the results are well worth the extra expense . |
| 16 | And as she 's five and a bit weeks old , it 's five weeks |
| 17 | Despite sore feet and blisters , they completed the 26 and a bit miles to raise thousands of pounds for charity . |
| 18 | Well , that 's almost one , one and a bit miles an hour that is . |
| 19 | Radice has longer service by seven and a bit months . |
| 20 | A bit of a late starter at Crystal Palace , Wright has scored nearly 160 goals in the seven and a bit seasons since . |
| 21 | One and one and a bit gangs . |
| 22 | Talking of which , you 'll laugh when you hear I went a bit bonkers myself for a while . |
| 23 | Until two and a bit years ago , that is , when he met and married the widow of a middle-bracket philanthropist . |
| 24 | So eighty four , eighty five , eighty six , eighty seven , eighty eight , eighty nine , ninety , ninety one I would have been there eight , eight and a bit years . |
| 25 | You 've had two and a bit examples , a thirteen year old with their questions about life , what 's it all for , who put us here and what on earth did they put us here for . |
| 26 | She was n't the shape for running , she decided , although she was growing taller suddenly — too tall for her liking , because Midnight was only fourteen and a bit hands . |
| 27 | Instead we 've had limp-wristed pardoners , a well paid return after a couple of years and now the insult of Johnson being only 10 and a bit seconds from another Olympic final . |
| 28 | And a branch looks set to open next month . |
| 29 | And a branch looks set to open next month . |
| 30 | Put a branch organizations chart up . |