Example sentences of "and [verb] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've just had somebody go out and sell four and a half thousand pound in one week |
| 2 | This will mean adjusting the time outbound , and allowing more than a single drift on the outbound leg . |
| 3 | This rare and peculiar fossil looks rather like a sea-lily without arms , and has more than a passing resemblance to a tennis racket ! |
| 4 | And say three and a half times sixty . |
| 5 | He had been an idealist with many good ideas at first , only later making errors , turning out to be basically evil , and becoming insane and a mass murderer . |
| 6 | If you see and screen more than a certain target number of patients you will get paid more . ’ |
| 7 | after this time , BBCBASIC(Z80) will give up and return -1 or a null string . |
| 8 | Mr Nichol , now 24 , was charged in February last year and spent four and a half months in custody before being released on bail . |
| 9 | Anthony from was found guilty of the manslaughter of a seven year old girl in ninety eighty six , and served four and a half years in prison . |
| 10 | Lord Silsoe , QC , opening up the CEGB campaign and taking two and a half days to do it ( there 's nothing like Latin for spinning words out ) , said that the board 's case had three main points . |
| 11 | James Boiling also returned career-best figures in that game , and deserves more than a regular one-day place . |
| 12 | They moved more than 3,000 tonnes of soil and sourced more than a 1,000 tonnes of clean building rubble , completing this task by the middle of January 1990 . |
| 13 | The ferry left Ramsgate for Dunkirk at 9.00am British time and docked two and a half hours later at 12.30pm continental time . |
| 14 | The would-be island , now with hermetically sealed borders and excluding all but a few tourists , is full of noises . |
| 15 | Further , the failure of the police and courts to prosecute and convict more than a small proportion of rapists means that there is little effective legal deterrent . |
| 16 | The new Lady Waterlane , having drunk three-quarters of a bottle of Bollinger and achieved two and a half orgasms , was well content . |
| 17 | Having seen him safely in hospital , though not in the best of health myself , I called at the poll tax office and waited one and a half hours in a very smoky atmosphere to have the summons withdrawn . |
| 18 | The prosecution under the Official Secrets Act was launched on 12 January 1971 ( the Conservative Party was then in power and had inherited this state prosecution from its Labour predecessors ) and lasted three and a half weeks . |
| 19 | This means that members in the Republic of Ireland who are over twenty five years of age and have more than a three year no claim bonus have had no increase in premium for over three years and for all other policyholder there has been no increase for over two years . |