Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She arranged for me to be companion to an old lady , the mother of a friend of theirs , for an hour or two a day . |
| 2 | I myself spend an hour or two a day in the garden hut with my father-in-law , dismantling the baby 's cot and highchair . |
| 3 | The school , of course , had existed for some years now , ever since the Factory Act which her father could not mention without turning purple , had thought it advisable for factory children to be given some education , feeling that an hour or two a week per child , perhaps , of reading , writing and arithmetic , would not go amiss . |
| 4 | One more pair of hands for an hour or two a week can be a godsend for this very worthwhile and rewarding ‘ back bone ’ work . |
| 5 | If it only takes you an hour or two a week to run your administration , then you do n't yet need a computer . |
| 6 | During the first two weeks on the Scarsdale Medical Diet , you will be delighted and encouraged by rapid weight loss , actually seeing on the scale that pounds are dropping off day by day ( not that discouraging pound or two a week ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But his cash income of 80 yuan a month , even when supplemented by the sale of a pig or two a year , gives the family a yearly cash income of no more than 1,500 yuan . |
| 9 | He could n't afford to believe that he had ever run like that , with such aching legs and such a flood of strength . |
| 10 | Until then , if you really need the additional speed and own a machine with a standard ISA bus and a 386DX processor then at approximately £350 the RapidCad Engineering Coprocessor is technically the second best upgrade . |
| 11 | The proprietor , a young man , even skinnier and shorter than I , with bulging eyes and half a gold tooth , was standing in the doorway wearing an oversized European suit . |
| 12 | One cup of tea and half a custard tart later it dawned on her that she felt a remarkable glow of well-being , for someone in her particular dilemma . |
| 13 | Medical experts told the court that they found cocaine and half a bottle of whisky in Kim Brockwell 's body . |
| 14 | However , despite launching the second wave of UDCs amidst government promotional hype proclaiming LDDC and MDC a success story , there has been scant attention paid in government circles to any rigorous analysis of the London and Liverpool experience . |
| 15 | With such an indictment and such a challenge in terms of the variety of disciplinary insights needed , the reader may well wonder at this stage whether one brief chapter can even begin to make any impact on this question . |
| 16 | Chain stitch , Laura thought , eyeing the weight in the ceiling cloth ( had it moved ? ) , chain stitch and 600 a term . |
| 17 | At the beginning of his next speech , after Sirith 's defensive demurral , he has to be more specific , and perhaps more generous : ( " I will give you a mighty gift , many a pound and many a mark , warm clothing and warm shoes . " ) |
| 18 | It was one of the worst years ever for the construction industry and many a card this Christmas carried a message that 1992 was a good year to see the back of and the hope that in 1993 things may start to look brighter . |
| 19 | The eminent novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch was asked in an interview in 1982 " What do you think of other forms and media , such as television ? " and I could not agree more with her reply which was " People say that British television is the best in the world but there is so much violence and such a lot of it is so terrible . |
| 20 | ‘ He is a lovely horse and such a character . ’ |
| 21 | Insulted by Commander Moelchert 's offer of a side of bacon and half a sack of hardtack , the warriors looted the station for flour , sugar , coffee , pots and pans . |
| 22 | If you use mirror from floor to ceiling and at right angles to a window or opposite a window it will give you twice the light and twice the view . |
| 23 | But at the same time it is occasionally so terribly easy to rob a fellow human being of his life : a slight nudge , let us say , from a car-bumper , and a cyclist is knocked down and hits his head against the road and in a second or two a life has gone . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | This means that instead of requiring the plaintiff to show that copying had taken place , the defendant will have to show that he did not , in fact , copy the plaintiff 's work and such a shift in the burden of proof can be exceedingly onerous to the defendant . |
| 26 | A packet of aspirin and half a glass of water stood on the tray on his desk . |
| 27 | After some coaxing she struggled with a minuscule portion of chicken salad and half a slice of bread , all the while gazing at Melissa with the eyes of a frightened child . |
| 28 | To guard against this I have filled the Bopeep Baby Sootha with honey mixed with brandy from Auntie 's flask and half a Disprin , just to make sure . |
| 29 | IF YOU LIVE in the south of England and own a Prestel viewdata set , keep your control panel handy at 7 pm next Monday . |
| 30 | Jake made a whispering noise , half a sigh and half a groan . |