Example sentences of "[prep] a [det] a " in BNC.

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1 There was no foreseeable possibility of a such a scheme .
2 A sum in the region of a half a million pounds has already been raised or pledged .
3 On a day basis , it 's about forty five pence a day , which is er less than the price of a half a glass of beer .
4 First to be cleared was a string of a half a dozen caravans .
5 He sounds like a such a wanker when he does it though .
6 For a half a century from the 1840s , Shorthorn bulls from Britain and Dutch Black Pied bulls were used to improve local red and red-pied cattle in central and southern Belgium ; they were also used on the black-and-white Charleroi ( which also had some Charolais influence later ) .
7 Follow this for a half a mile , past a huge thatched barn on the right , then Marsh Lodge on the left .
8 There was also what was to become a recurrent feature of Gilkes 's reports — as indeed it had been for a half a century already — regret at the parents ' lack of faith or courage , which resulted in boys leaving early and not going on to University .
9 It does strike me though as a that A that one of the basic points is that if this is going in as structure plan guidance then we have to be satisfied that these are in fact criteria which can operate at the strategic level .
10 A unit of alcohol was defined as a half a pint of beer or one sixth of a gill of spirits .
11 I 've g I 've got about a half a dozen sheets of paper scattered all over the place , and I 've decided to do it in this cos then I can just go to here .
12 I think the wages went up round about a half a crown the first year or five bob the second year in er er progressing like that .
13 So it 's still about a half a mile of very slow moving traffic approaching it .
14 My rules are to cut down drinking , control my temper if I am drinking , not to drink in a such a large group and not to waste much money .
15 But erm they are built in a such a way that they should cater for the largest vehicle that is likely to use that road .
16 If he was in a such a desperate hurry he could have gone down and gone over there .
17 And the Royal Bank of Scotland says its taking court action over a half a million pound overdraft .
18 The example of the installation at Edinburgh has led to several million dollars ' worth of business which , according to Meiko , would have been much harder to obtain without a such a proof of cost-effectiveness .
19 Disk space will start at 4.2GB , progressing to a half a terabyte and then to a full terabyte next year .
20 See apparently education now , we 're on a such a cut back that they 've
21 At present , however , many people are absolutely riveted by what is happening , or could happen , in this country at a such a crucial moment in world history .
22 I did n't use a little animal every two seconds ; they were expended at a few a week .
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