Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] a [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Ninety-nine times out of a hundred a kid will tell you what he thinks you want to hear , ’ Vito said . |
| 5 | There was no foreseeable possibility of a such a scheme . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He sounds like a such a wanker when he does it though . |
| 11 | No le let them have sort of like a half an hour talk before you announce the quiz straight after that let all their stomachs go down and then sort of get |
| 12 | For a hired a studio for three hours . |
| 13 | Follow this for a half a mile , past a huge thatched barn on the right , then Marsh Lodge on the left . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The sun came up for a half an hour , but it was too cold : -46° Centigrade . |
| 17 | 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 " . |
| 18 | A unit of alcohol was defined as a half a pint of beer or one sixth of a gill of spirits . |
| 19 | So it 's still about a half a mile of very slow moving traffic approaching it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Erm , then the erm , the insistence of the driver 's conductors was they did n't like the long periods of duty they erm , they wanted the new set up so I introduced what we call straight duties , narrowed the relief portion , so they did n't go home for a meal , they had about a half an hour off , so they were able to get their eight hour duty done in a shorter period and they 'd probably finish about two instead of half past three , four o'clock . |
| 22 | They are about an interesting a bunch of people that you could ever hope to meet . |
| 23 | Hart exhorts us that ‘ we should not cherish even as an ideal a rule so detailed that no new choices arise at the point of application ’ .6 Unger remarks that ‘ language is no longer credited with the fixidity of categories and the transparent representation of the world that would make formalism plausible in legal reasoning or in ideas about justice ’ . |
| 24 | I removed the completed bowl at this stage and finished with three coats of Danish oil , the first two applied within a half an hour of each other , the final coat applied the next morning and allowed to dry until the evening . |
| 25 | As fans of shortening point out , bills account for only one-quarter of the marketable debt , down from a third a decade ago . |
| 26 | The 32-year-old Bein played in Germany 's 1990 World Cup campaign but won the last of his 14 caps in a friendly a year ago . |
| 27 | But erm they are built in a such a way that they should cater for the largest vehicle that is likely to use that road . |
| 28 | Participating gastroenterologists were asked to enrol eligible duodenal ulcer patients consecutively but none was permitted to enrol more than seven patients since the aim was to recruit patients over a short a time period as possible while ensuring that they were also drawn from many different parts of the country . |
| 29 | The example of the installation at Edinburgh has led to several million dollars ' worth of business which , according to Meiko , would have been much harder to obtain without a such a proof of cost-effectiveness . |
| 30 | The screens , which could be available in small quantities in July building to a thousand a month in the fall , may become OEM products . |