Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Changes in the grade structures following re-organisation of the general service had repercussions on crewing , some of our friends at HQ had moved on or retired and a harder line was being taken by their replacements towards our hitherto fairly flexible conditions of service . |
| 2 | Dakletons have a crew of seven or eight and a patrol time of six hours . |
| 3 | Suppose I 'll have to put them both with a five can always buy her a plant or some or a box of chocolate 's , oh sorry Melvin brought you these , forgot you were on a diet |
| 4 | Or nineteen and a half something like that . |
| 5 | Like an agent , a distributor will usually be a local firm or individual and a specialist in the requirements of the local market . |
| 6 | They were also Indian or Pakistani , not black or white or a mixture . |
| 7 | is approximately fifteen hundred kilometres two and a half thousand kilometres or three and a half thousand kilometres ? |
| 8 | So it 's three months or three and a half months . |
| 9 | Well I do n't know , but it , it is a long way down , people who do n't know Lord 's , you have to come down from , er and er perhaps they 're not quite ready , but it is there must have taken , I do n't , next time perhaps put the clock on it , but this must be a three minute or three and a half minute . |
| 10 | In this way , a single D-type bistable can remember one binary digit — or 0 or a 1 . |
| 11 | The response rate to a verbal questionnaire can easily be 90% or more but a mailed questionnaire can have a response rate as low as 30% even with follow-up reminders . |
| 12 | And they too will reply , ‘ Lord , when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison , and did nothing for you ? ’ |
| 13 | The minimum hardware requirements for InstaPlan are 640k of random-access memory ( RAM ) , MS-DOS 2.0 or higher and a floppy disk . |
| 14 | According to the Sunday Times , ‘ A Government Minister has implied that their [ the people of the area ] problems are imaginary or psychosomatic and a senior Whitehall official has suggested that the whole thing was a ‘ hoax ’ , devised to thwart the Government 's privatisation plans . ’ |
| 15 | A matrix is not a simple scalar quantity like 2 or 8 and a special technique is needed to carry out the operation of raising a matrix to the power n . |
| 16 | Membership of this club entails attending an annual dinner at which some 400 of Edinburgh 's most prominent citizens assemble to celebrate Scott 's memory , at which an admiral or general and a judge respond to toasts to the Armed Forces and the Law , and the president speaks on some aspect of the author of the Waverley novels . |
| 17 | Two of the dead were children , a girl aged about eight or nine and a boy of about eleven years , they were travelling together , but otherwise unaccompanied . |
| 18 | Or five and a half even . |
| 19 | They specialised in questions which , to quote Bowley , " required an answer of 'yes ' or 'no' or a simple number or something equally definite and precise " . |
| 20 | National Certificate Modules are delivered in schools , further education colleges and other approved centres throughout Scotland and because they are separate units in their own right , modules can be taken in a variety of ways to accommodate the circumstances of the individual — full-time , part-time , distance or open-learning or a combination of these . |
| 21 | That is not a retrospective or prescriptive but a descriptive process and will allow the citizens of this country to measure the standards of service that they receive from their local authorities . |
| 22 | Surrounded by the commercial tat of a failed sexual ‘ revolution ’ , Punk Rock threw sex back into the face of society in an apocalyptic vision ; as the name Sex Pistols made clear , sex here was not a means to pleasure , or self-discovery but a weapon : ‘ 'It 's the only way to smash the wretched civilisation . ’ |
| 23 | The electronics inside the pistol consist of a light detector or photo-diode and a small amplifier and buffer . |
| 24 | For example , erm , in the case of newborn , or young or a very young offspring , and a , maybe a mother has already put a tremendous investment into that offspring , as you 've already seen . |
| 25 | Transistor TR2 needs to have an H f e of at least 500 or greater and a BC109C was chosen here . |
| 26 | The Cabinet as such currently comprises 22 members , while there are outside the Cabinet about 30 ministers of the rank of minister of state or equivalent and a further approximately 50 parliamentary under-secretaries of state , parliamentary secretaries of state , government whips and government spokespersons in the House of Lords . |
| 27 | Copious salivation ; often with a metallic taste or sweet or salty and a sense of dryness with intense thirst sometimes . |
| 28 | The old man would often not recognize him , and at the most answered with a phrase or two or a grunt . |
| 29 | I could n't tell you how , but it I , cos you 'd , I do n't want nothing , but when I did , I 'd got ta use my ingenuity to get something that I could get one or two or a dozen or ten off , you know what I mean , and I got ta make it and a lot of times I made it out of wood which was easily er you know treated . |
| 30 | Good lighting , a picture or two or a rug fixed to the end wall will give a whole new lease of life to what could have been a boring dead end . |