Example sentences of "a [noun] [adj] or a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It could 've varied , you know , any time if you like from , from March till May and without knowing the exact date you might be a bit late or a bit too early er for future business .
2 either a bit off putting or a bit slow or a bit , you know , all sorts
3 Or what 's the difference in this activity for a level two or a level three child ?
4 as most Easter eggs go to kids , they put them in a breakable cup , while they do n't put them in a plastic one or a melamine one
5 Whether you 're a sales assistant or a customer , it 's important to find out as much as possible about the product on sale .
6 So I mean you do n't want to go di di down to a size eight or a size ten , cos I think you 'd feel
7 Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals .
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