Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 Inactivation of the octamer binding site results in a higher level of gene expression in cells which contain only Oct-1 and a lower level in cells containing the cervical octamer binding protein indicating that whilst Oct-1 binding reduces promoter activity , the cervical protein increases it .
2 Tony Paignton , although only twenty-one and a merry-faced person bubbling over with fun , was an intensely serious young man .
3 Instead we 've had limp-wristed pardoners , a well paid return after a couple of years and now the insult of Johnson being only 10 and a bit seconds from another Olympic final .
4 It was a gentle enough life and it took only six and a half hours to travel home by taxi from Beirut to Jaffa .
5 So six and a half for that one .
6 Between it and the boundary of the Howardian Hills area of outstanding natural beauty at Foston Bridge , the distance is only three and a half kilometres , just over two miles , there is therefore a narrow corridor not designated either as greenbelt or A O N B , which naturally er comes under rather heavier pressure perhaps than er areas round it might .
7 She was n't the shape for running , she decided , although she was growing taller suddenly — too tall for her liking , because Midnight was only fourteen and a bit hands .
8 The first was obviously the most pressing , and on 29th July 1847 Mr. William Gurney , aged only 25 and a Cambridge graduate , was appointed .
9 I 'm only ten and a half stone
10 I was not quite five feet eight inches high , weighed only nine and a half stone , and found it uncomfortable to stand without arch-supports even for the duration of a hymn in church .
11 Because er as far as I 'd concerned I 'd never heard of air raids before hand you know , know I had n't and I was , as I say , I was only nine and a half I know but er , I did use to speak to a lot more people than most , er lads of that age did like , you know .
12 We might as well be councillor and actually sort of erm stated the problem to which it is very difficult to find a solution and that problem is how do you keep council rents below nine and a half percent , that is a problem to which councillor does not have a solution .
13 The first thing to remember is that the England and Wales of 1700 has a total population of only five and a half million people .
14 ‘ We had never realised what hard work is actually involved in producing a programme of this kind and , with the added pressure of only five and a half hours in the city , we had our work cut out .
15 In the first a female employee received a potentially fatal electric shock of perhaps five and a half thousand volts while testing ovens for high voltage leakage .
16 If I 'd been fourteen years old I should have commanded one shilling , but being only twelve and a half I got sixpence .
17 So twelve and a half per cent is an eighth .
18 Any given male sang only one or a few of these songs .
19 For the former , since they play against only one or a few opponents , there is no need for learning ; the genetically-determined strategy ‘ cooperate with your neighbour if he cooperates ; otherwise defect ’ can be stable .
20 In particular , when the creature has to take account of a wide range of structural differences and similarities between distinct situations ( as opposed to concentrating on only one or a few physical parameters ) , these structural features can only be represented symbolically — for , by hypothesis , they have no physical features in common .
21 But constraints usually involve power over only one or a narrow range of corporate activities , so that they amount to partial control rather than control over the entire spectrum of major decisions ’ .
22 Systematic risk is associated with movements in the market as a whole , while unsystematic risk is due to events which affect only one or a few assets , not the entire market .
23 Many cases of resistance depend on only one or a very few genes .
24 He then ran a gallant race when third to Linwell in the Mildmay Memorial Chase over three miles five furlongs at Sandown Park , conceding twenty-three pounds to the winner and finishing only one and a half lengths behind him .
25 It lasted only one and a half hours but it satisfied body and soul .
26 Seven and a quarter million voted , yes , and only one and a half million ‘ no ’ out of an electorate of roughly ten million .
27 So on top of the five shows and rehearsals every day at the Rex , they did another four at the Olympia and did not even receive double salaries but only one and a half .
28 And so if we look at what was happening to income at that time , we find that the disposable income , meaning the amount of money we have to spend on other things after we 've bought essentials , that figure rose by only one and a half percent throughout this period .
29 Only one and a half drops for me . ’
30 We attempted to investigate , briefly , some aspect of ‘ way of life ’ and found Blacks and Whites had , on average , gone out just under three evenings in the previous week and Asians only one and a half times .
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