Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twelve year old Emma Butler died during a kickabout after a five a side football match … she 'd been watching her younger brother , Matthew , play in a tournament organised by the St Edmunds Football Club at the European School in Abingdon … details of what exactly happened are still sketchy … but it 's believed a hockey goal post which was leaning against a hut fell down crushing Emmas chest … |
| 2 | Considering he had been in possession of a thousand a year from carefully invested family money , a very good unearned income in 1925 , he had not done well . |
| 3 | ‘ Ninety-nine times out of a hundred a kid will tell you what he thinks you want to hear , ’ Vito said . |
| 4 | The total numbers of students involved would be of a hundred a year and if the courses are to start they will require the approval of the Secretary of State . |
| 5 | Well of a reasonable a re Yes I mean they wo n't be so small you can hardly see them |
| 6 | In the current programme the studio is in use for seventeen days out of a possible a hundred and forty seven . |
| 7 | There was no foreseeable possibility of a such a scheme . |
| 8 | A sum in the region of a half a million pounds has already been raised or pledged . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | First to be cleared was a string of a half a dozen caravans . |
| 11 | Of a sudden a gull which has died on the wing crashes to the sand at my feet , its feathers brushing my forehead as it falls . |
| 12 | ‘ Forgot a lot o' things , did old Blackberry ! ’ observed Forest , addressing Richard as if he were of a sudden a force to be reckoned with . |
| 13 | I might just add that what we are deeply disturbed by , is that as the fighting continues in Cambodia with Phol Pot trying once again to get into control , already a hundred and fifty thousand people have been displaced by that fighting and that er the number of amputees has reached something like a thousand a month which is twice last year 's figure . |
| 14 | He sounds like a such a wanker when he does it though . |
| 15 | For a hired a studio for three hours . |
| 16 | That there would be areas within those sectors which would be suitable for a new a new settlement . |
| 17 | Er for a mobile a mobile unit . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Follow this for a half a mile , past a huge thatched barn on the right , then Marsh Lodge on the left . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For one he has created an office , for another a library and for a third a single piece of furniture . |
| 22 | I can make as a good a vassal out of some faithful man as can any of my counts , and maybe even a better one " . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A unit of alcohol was defined as a half a pint of beer or one sixth of a gill of spirits . |
| 25 | — Also this week , BR branded as a fake a leaked document which claimed to reveal plans to close vital lines in Cleveland and County Durham . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | So it 's still about a half a mile of very slow moving traffic approaching it . |
| 29 | But even but even in that case we did have er did have a case with a young a youngish lad who his accountant had written it |
| 30 | It is one in which a repertory with a large a cappella element is cultivated on a daily basis by men and ( usually ) boys , all of them relatively young , who hold positions in a cathedral or chapel ( often for a relatively short time ) for which there is much competition . |