Example sentences of "an [adj] and a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It originates from considering , for example , the situation where an older and a younger person would benefit equally from treatment but resources allow only one to be treated . |
| 2 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
| 3 | In the Auk field , the reservoir has been divided into an upper and a lower unit ( Brennand and van Veen , 1975 ) . |
| 4 | If you accept the amendment of er Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh , he would say it set an upper and a lower limit o o of the size of erm o of police authority and the chances are then that the number will gradually i inflate so that it 's always the highest number , that is that is obtained . |
| 5 | what has most carefully to be defined is the specific association of what are really quite unchanged class feelings — a persistent sense of a quite clear line between an upper and a lower class — with very strong and effective feelings of sympathy with the lower class as victims . |
| 6 | Orwell and Waugh , older by a generation , belonged to an earlier and a sparer tradition . |
| 7 | Am I right in thinking I have seen an earlier and a later version . |