Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I had to place my cock down on the glass , but the way this copier is designed — I disliked this copier , by the way , that place is too cheap to lease a decent brand of copier — the way it 's designed is that a normal eight and a half by eleven piece of paper is oriented sideways in the middle of the glass between two marks , you how that works , right ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Fifty eight and a half . |
| 4 | Nine hundred of the strongest men worked for about three hours to lift me on to the platform , and one thousand five hundred of the King 's largest horses ( each eleven and a half centimetres high ) pulled me to the capital . |
| 5 | It should be obvious that a dissonance sounded by one instrument must be resolved by that instrument ( unless there is a complete break-off and a rest or pause separating the discord from what follows ) , but it is the writer 's experience that beginners do not always realize the musical necessity for this . |
| 6 | He was of a kind Creggan did not recognize , with white head plumage that ran magnificently down his neck , and wing feathers of a deep and rich brown and a black-yellow beak . |
| 7 | Baths were mandatory and not just a lazy soaking but a good scrubbing with carbolic soap . |
| 8 | A British orderly and a Polish civilian were pumping filth from one of the lavatories into a long cylindrical cart . |
| 9 | The key advantages were a very comfortable boot , with a grippy rubber sole and a dramatic reduction of the weight of boot and binding combined . |
| 10 | There is some anecdotal and a little firm evidence that dual-subject degrees are less well regarded by some employers ( Gordon 1983 ) . |
| 11 | It 's hoped to attract a top professional and a very big money tournament . |
| 12 | Right no no you 've got a one twenty and a on a one twenty and a one twenty and then you 've got a forty eight , forty eight and a seventy two . |
| 13 | The leader of the clan was Erica , half German and a dedicated do-gooder who always greeted Jane with an unnerving ‘ How are you , Jane ? ’ delivered with a look of such worried concern that Jane felt there ought , or must , be something wrong with her . |
| 14 | Tonight winds will be calm inland but a light southerly breeze over the Clyde estuary and the Argyll coast will keep temperatures there around five celsius , that 's forty one fahrenheit . |
| 15 | But he 'd have to wait at least another 2 and a half hours — that 's how long Mae Luz 's flight from Manila was delayed . |
| 16 | Q The natural colour of my hair is between a light brown and a dark brown . |
| 17 | In 1959 , TANU had tried to launch its own National Times press with Nyerere as chairman , the ambitious plan being to publish a Swahili daily , an English daily and a Gujerati weekly . |
| 18 | There were other gifts , too : new oak doors , given by Sir Geoffry Christie-Miller , adorned the side entrance ; cathode-ray oscilloscopes had been donated by Ferranti Ltd. and Professor Williams ( who had recently received the Hughes medal of the Royal Society ) ; £1 , 000 had come from the Sir Alan Sykes Trust towards the cost of the Sixth Form rooms ; and Mr. Charles Royle , MP and Old Stopfordian , and Mr. David Blank , Old Stopfordian and a recently co-opted Governor , were arranging to provide £100 to endow a Sixth Form Essay Prize in memory of the former 's father , a Governor from January 1923 until his death the previous November . |
| 19 | Arguments were fierce : some said six , some six and a half , some seven . |
| 20 | Marks & Spencer , the House of Fraser and the Burton Group had some six and a half million store cards between them . |
| 21 | It had been calculated that there were some six and a half thousand living American Oxonians , many of them leading distinguished careers as a result of their education . |
| 22 | He then hooked Andrew Caddick for another six and a perfectly timed shot off Richard Snell sailed over the square leg boundary and into a back garden . |
| 23 | Unlike most of what was on the menu , two wines were actually available , a semi-sweet white and a semi-sweet red . |
| 24 | They were getting the best of it , too , for there were only serving-people left and a few armed men , since the rest went off north with the courier . |
| 25 | Dicky o' Tunstead is a celebrated skull who lived at Tunstead Farm in Derbyshire for some three and a half centuries . |
| 26 | Since these words are of such great antiquity , recorded some three and a half thousand years ago , how are they still relevant today , especially in relation to the inner conflicts of our lives ? |
| 27 | She picked up the phone and dialled Heathrow , asked for Flight Information , was told that the flight from New York had arrived on time some three and a half hours ago . |
| 28 | And that in addition some three and a half thousand dwellings are contained in draft local plans which have yet to be tested through the the local plan process . |
| 29 | A prisoner who threw boiling water over a fellow inmate has been jailed for a further three and a half years . |
| 30 | I mean , look at that in that , Ashbourne Close there , forty three and a half thousand ! |