Example sentences of "[indef pn] [coord] a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Words were everything and a quirky sense of observation added an extra ingredient . |
| 2 | And , every Saturday she would cook for me , usually curry , something and a good bottle of wine . |
| 3 | On the front page was a story about an old man who had lain dead in his council flat for eighteen months until Gas Board workers had discovered him , a blurred photograph of some local women who were going somewhere in a body to protest about something and a larger picture of a council dignitary opening some sort of centre and looking pleased with himself . |
| 4 | What I do n't want is ten minutes of waffle and one and a half minutes of pure gold . |
| 5 | They found that much of the large negative basis in the first one and a half hours of trading was due to the use of stale prices from Friday 16 October in computing the index . |
| 6 | we 've still got ta do one and a half topics of these books . |
| 7 | Gluing is not so much a skilled job as a responsible one and a large number of mistakes are available to a determined man , all of which can have dangerous results . |
| 8 | The process of counting is a proficient one and a sufficient number of results are usually announced within a few hours of the close of the polls to know which party has won the election . |