Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the balloons were off rising above Herefordshire to eleven and a half thousand feet instead of the planned ten and a half thousand . |
| 2 | The vast majority of the estimated two and a half million employees covered by the Wage Council work in the retail hot retail , hotel and catering , and textile industries . |
| 3 | An institution was any establishment provided by the Council for reception and maintenance of the poor other than a hospital , a children 's home or a separate casual ward . |
| 4 | He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust . |
| 5 | In the saddle Simon Goodman , the man who 's spent every waking hour of the last 2 and a half years creating a machine to recapture the excitement of classic British motorcycling . |
| 6 | The motor age had arrived and by the end of the 1950s one and a quarter million new vehicles were being registered every year . |
| 7 | Whatever one 's interpretation of the events of the next two and a half months , there can be little doubt that they represent an improvised response rather than a matured plan . |
| 8 | Whatever one 's interpretation of the events of the next two and a half months , there can be little doubt that they represent an improvised response rather than a matured plan . |
| 9 | Jo refused to discuss the Oscars ; the whole idea was too exciting to bear serious thought , and besides she knew something about the events of the next three and a half hours that her mother did not , and would not until her name was called . |
| 10 | Anthracite black is more of a black grey than a true black , so it is great for tinting other colours to get softer washes . |
| 11 | ‘ So the problem then is that only a little sliver of the tip of my cock was going to make it in range of the footprint of a normal eight and a half by eleven copy . |
| 12 | Perhaps it will provide a beacon of hope for future generations of pianists for whom it is not too late to swerve off their mat and sterile paths , to follow the lead of a genuine eccentric and a genuine musician ? |
| 13 | The curtains were of a deep pink and a multi-coloured patchwork quilt covered the king-size bed . |
| 14 | I started to memorise the sound of a minor thirteenth or a dominant eleventh chord . |