Example sentences of "of a [adj] [noun pl] and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out there , away from the Inspirals ' tour bubble , is a land of a thousand lakes and a million fir trees , where the people drive with the headlights on in full daylight , past ‘ Moose Crossing ’ warning signs , to restaurants where you can tuck into sautéed reindeer . |
| 2 | No mean bat , he also scored just over 17,000 runs for the county , and did the double of a hundred wickets and a thousand runs seven times ( nine times counting all cricket ) . |
| 3 | There was a farm and plantation of a hundred acres and a hospital with fifty beds for in-patients , plus outpatient facilities . |
| 4 | Well I suppose at the , one of the best things , best examples of the difference was that my wife when she saw this house , knew that it was a house in which she could be happy , in which her tastes and , could spread themselves , erm rather than her tastes having to be curtailed by lack of space and lack of accommodation , erm , the fact that I had a garage which was essential er next to my house instead of some er quarter or twenty minutes ' walk away from where I lived as happened in London also made a terrific difference to comfort , erm the fact that there was a garden instead of a few windowboxes and a couple of tubs , all these things I think made one appreciate the fact that you 'd come , not only into a new town , but into a new way of life probably the fact that we had a staircase inside the house , which was the first time that we 'd had a staircase between our bedrooms and our living rooms |
| 5 | The plan showed the outlines of a dozen houses and a service road superimposed on a large-scale map . |