Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would be twenty five pound a day as well , or fifty pound a day as well . |
| 2 | Well a man is n't subject to moods or premenstrual tension a guy is n't going to phone in sick with some crap about cramps . |
| 3 | round it and like Dave said it would 've cost him , sort of , seven or eight pound a day in petrol |
| 4 | But in another variety of comic crime fiction you can take as a chief character , as indeed your detective , a person who is to a greater or lesser extent a figure of fun , someone prone to fall victim to more or less ridiculous circumstances . |
| 5 | There is far more economic intervention by the state in most societies of the West , and state employees of one kind or another form a large part of the work-force ( a quarter of all workers in Britain ) . |
| 6 | A constant or direct component a only appears in a representation of a periodic wave if the positive and negative excursions are unbalanced so that the mean is nonzero . |
| 7 | oh but they really get up my nose ! just wan na do is phone me up , you know I I sa oh had a row with , do n't say anything like about quarter to four time and I said to her , well I 'll be quite honest I said er there 's sixty pound a week or seventy pound a week I get more than you I said I have never heard a load of moaning pratts in all my life ! |
| 8 | The studies used as a basis for judgement are generally lacking in control because of the finality of educational decision making and placement ( in the sense that we can not return the child to an original or alternative placement a year later and be able to start from the same point again ) . |
| 9 | This is more likely when , for example , the difficulties concern the general aspects of a relationship , or non-specific dissatisfaction a person may experience with his current lifestyle . |
| 10 | For every book-collector , and every bookseller , is in greater or less degree a bibliographer . |
| 11 | And if we recognise our true position as skilled labourers performing with more or less ability a given portion of a comp 's duties , it would be utterly absurd for you to propose , or us to expect , equal remuneration with men which I suppose is what you mean by insisting on getting the true value of our labour . |
| 12 | Are your holidays suitable for the disabled or those wit a serious medical condition ? |
| 13 | Spray-wipe techniques with a solvent hard surface cleaner or solvent degreaser can be used on light soiling but for moderate or heavy soiling a brush applied alkali degreaser is more suitable . |
| 14 | For example , the average frequency of bingeing fell from four or five time a week to once a fortnight at the twelfth session . |
| 15 | The involvement of Welsh grandparents takes a different form : contact may be less frequent and based on invitations to visit or regular arrangements for contributing to childcare one day or one evening a week . |
| 16 | Male aggression , on the other hand , is generally investigated by more active experiments , which vary the degree of hostile , threatening , or frustrating treatment a subject experiences . |
| 17 | erm , erm normally they start at one thirty and they can go up to about three or four pound a great big tub . |
| 18 | I mean root ginger 's like a pound a pound , or two pound a pound . |
| 19 | On Monday 27th many insurgents converged on the Tauride Palace , seat of the Duma , and that evening a group of predominantly Menshevik intelligentsia established a Provisional Executive Committee ( EC ) of the soviet in the palace and summoned factories and barracks to elect deputies to it . |
| 20 | Roffman and Purdy list a number of new film genres that developed during these years but the vast majority of individual films mentioned did not move very far from what was becoming a stock depiction of the city with its gangsters , ‘ modern ’ women , and venal politicians and lawyers . |
| 21 | Yeah , a hundred and eleven pound a week |
| 22 | That 's mister average eight hundred and fifty pound a week . |
| 23 | You 're gon na lose two hundred and fifty pound a month . |
| 24 | And a good two hundred and fifty pound a month . |
| 25 | So you can say two hundred and fifty pound a month to buy a place . |
| 26 | And you 're going , you 're getting two hundred and fifty pound a month as well in rent |
| 27 | I mean we 're paying two hundred and fifty pound a month so at least he 's getting that coming in . |
| 28 | It would probably be fourteen thousand pound a year you 'd work it on two hundred and fifty pound a week . |
| 29 | And they get what , seven hundred and fifty pound a month as well ! |
| 30 | On the other side of the Square , attracting a much larger crowd , a fire-eater was doing his thing watched by amazed children as he threw his head back and spewed flame a couple of yards into the air . |