Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] and [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The metopes are about five feet wide and only a little higher , so the relief-figures are under life-size . |
| 2 | Gavin Jones is 12 years old and also a pupil at Llantarnam School . |
| 3 | Imported by Clara Hurley and Michael Grossman , when he was five years old and already a Dutch and Belgian champion , he gained his title taking a Best in Show along the way . |
| 4 | He was a Polynesian Hawaiian , thirty-two years old and already a legend on the North Shore . |
| 5 | Kevin O'Neil was just thirty years old and already a part of it in Dublin . |
| 6 | She was twenty-five years old and still a virgin , and as she looked at her image in the mirror great tears welled up and spilled over as she relived Ace 's words . |
| 7 | Law had indeed already done enough as leader to make his departure unthinkable and so a memorial was drawn up by Carson and signed by almost all the party 's backbenchers , stating full confidence in Law and begging him to stay on with a revised tariff policy . |
| 8 | After days of near-solitude Paige found the barrage of questions bewildering and not a little alarming . |
| 9 | Shelves , if made of wood , will need to be at least three-quarters of an inch thick and preferably a little more ; and they should be supported every three feet or so . |
| 10 | An inadequate list may include reduction in infant and child mortality better employment prospects for educated children making investment in education worthwhile and therefore a cost related to the number of children ; women 's status in the household and extent of emancipation in making decisions ; education of parents and enrolment rates in education for children , and women 's participation in the formal labour force ( where pregnancy implies unavoidable loss of earnings ) . |
| 11 | She walked into the sumptuously furnished sitting-room feeling lost and not a little frightened . |
| 12 | The villagers , who were expecting them , had their gifts ready and soon a small van was following slowly behind to transport their ever growing number . |
| 13 | Sometimes modern schools started O level and even A level classes . |
| 14 | Remember it used to be three inches long and now a foot long , with a flapper |
| 15 | George , a former school truant and now a construction trainee , said : ‘ At least I did something … but the others , you saw them at school , just lazy . ’ |
| 16 | Go up Road , and from there turn down Follyhouse Lane the continuation of it and you 'd come right to the Dales and nothing at all from there to West Bromwich , and you could see , if you go over one stile from one field then onto another and then brook that now runs through the Road there , that used to be a little country brook that run across the golf course and there was a little stile over it , a little bridge and a stile , then you go straight up to Dells common and not a house in sight . |
| 17 | An executive director of Noble Grossart Limited and also a non-executive director of Amicable Smaller Enterprises Trust PLC , Stagecoach Holdings PLC , Pict Petroleum plc and a number of other companies . |
| 18 | The result is a beautiful leisure park , one and a half miles long and nearly a mile wide , in the middle of the Danube . |