Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dadda only smoked when he was contented and then he would get through forty or fifty a day , bringing on a cough and staining his fingers yellow-brown . |
| 2 | Forty or fifty a day , three gallons of beer , drop dead one of these days — " |
| 3 | Forty or fifty a week the Dynmouth woman 's paid . " |
| 4 | How specific or broad a range of wastes constitute a waste type is debatable . |
| 5 | Under capitalism the market and the desire to accumulate wealth appear to be a sufficient basis for social interaction and for regulating communal life ; things and impersonal economic mechanisms have replaced people 's commitment to each other while ‘ the ancient conception in which man always appears ( in however narrowly national , religious or political a definition ) as the aim of production , seems very much more exalted that the modern world in which production is the aim of man and wealth the aim of production ’ [ p. 84 ] . |
| 6 | The coaching stock was six or eight a side compartment type with sliding top lights , it was warm in the carriage by the time the tunnel was reached , so a top light was opened . |
| 7 | If only because the offence is defined in terms of ‘ duty ’ the concept must be in some way limited to the ways that the law obliges the constable to act , in however attenuated or weak a sense of that word . |
| 8 | Or half a can of paraffin , if you 're anything like most of the scouts I 've met . |
| 9 | For instance , the use of cannabis by the young is far more likely to be branded as ‘ drug-taking'/'drug addiction ’ and hence a ‘ social problem ’ than is the consumption of thirty cigarettes a day by adults or half a bottle of brandy by middle-class businessmen . |
| 10 | The doctor said : ‘ A specimen of blood showed he had drunk the equivalent of nine or ten pints of lager or half a bottle of spirits . ’ |
| 11 | Once they were on the road they had their own coach , staying a day or half a day in each town . |
| 12 | All this time she kept up her cryings and roarings , indeed , when she was ‘ barren of tears a day or half a day ’ , she was much depressed . |
| 13 | And each visit is a session whether it 's a day or half a day or twenty |
| 14 | it was a stone or half a brick . |
| 15 | Protractors , compasses , rulers , and any other impressive props we could think of — even a film-footage chart , and the monocular ( or half a pair of binoculars ) inherited from our stepfather . |
| 16 | One drink means a single measure of spirit , a glass of wine , a small glass of sherry or half a pint of beer or lager . |
| 17 | One unit is equivalent to one pub measure or glass of wine , sherry , or whisky , or half a pint of beer or cider . |
| 18 | alcohol 3 units per day ( 1 unit = 1 glass of wine , 1 measure spirit or half a pint of beer or lager ) |
| 19 | One unit is a glass of wine , a measure of spirits or half a pint of beer . |
| 20 | Effects vary according to individual health , weight and sex but , as a rough measure , three single whiskies drunk in one hour might result in 0.05% alcohol content in the blood — this would lift spirits and lessen inhibitions ( a single whisky is equivalent to one glass of wine or half a pint of beer ) . |
| 21 | One unit is equal to a small glass of wine , or half a pint of ordinary strength beer or lager , one measure of spirit or a small sherry . |
| 22 | They spent their evenings together in a trattoria on the square beside the Ponte Milvio or down in Trastevere , before a couple of hours at his place , or half a night at her apartment . |
| 23 | Despite the poor conditions in many towns , Margaret Loane , a health visitor , felt that the family of the pre-World War I urban labourer , earning 20/ a week and renting a small house or half a house , was better off than that of his rural counterpart , earning 13/ a week and living in a free , but often damp and usually overcrowded cottage . |
| 24 | Using a pole , fixed line , size 24 hook and wisp of fish or half a harbour rag it would be possible to catch fish an inch long one after another . |
| 25 | One sector is 512 bytes , or half a kilobyte , and an MFM drive has 17 sectors per track , which makes 8.5Kb per track . |
| 26 | Your head is big business — it weighs about 10lb or 4½kg and your hands weigh about 1lb or half a kg each . |
| 27 | Anyone might , anyone could , anyone would be welcome for a time or half a time . |
| 28 | Apart from adding a starter , you can add bacteria and ‘ seed ’ ; the tank by adding water from an already sound tank ; by adding media ( say gravel from the undergravel or half a filter sponge ) to the filter ; and by washing out a mature in-use filter in the new tank . |
| 29 | When I opened the Bible to see if it was damaged , I found that wherever there was an empty page , or half a page , someone had written on it , and on the first page was written ‘ Catherine Earnshaw 's diary , 1776 ’ . |
| 30 | ( That 's about two peanuts , or half an orange . ) |