Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] [coord] a " in BNC.

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1 The raw scores were then standardised to a scale with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 .
2 Overall , if one aggregates those three things , the level of settlement for the county was down thirty- one per cent on the year , compared with a national total , which was also in distress of fourteen and a half per cent down .
3 On 9 May , after a closure of four and a half years , the gallery reopens with , among other treasures , Whistler 's restored Peacock Room
4 The problem was how to assess effort or commitment or end result of one or a series of lessons like discussions or role play or simulations ?
5 The centre is the result of three and a half years of hard fundraising work by local people .
6 ‘ In the eyes of all but a small percentage of Irish people , the so-called armed struggle has degenerated into a campaign of sickening sectarian killing of fellow Irish men and women . ’
7 He must be a physician , having books of physick and a herbal by him .
8 Its construction was a considerable engineering feat , an enclosed wet dock of three and a half acres built within the pool , a tidal creek of the Mersey .
9 His father , Peter , was a stylish midfield back in Gala 's Border Championship side of 1966–67 and a brilliant sevens exponent , while Rob Moffat toured with Scotland in the Far East in 1977 and coached Townsend at Galashiels Academy and Scottish Schools .
10 It may be fortuitous that if we spend this morning discussing criteria , there 'll then be a gap of one and a half working days for those who do n't have to travel far to consider possible answers to the second stream of the dialogue .
11 Li , a veteran of the Long March of 1934-35 and a commander of the Red Army prior to its revolutionary victory in 1949 , was a self-taught economist from a peasant family .
12 In the light of this and a vivid description of an unexpected home delivery to my husband — we were taking no chances — and I was rushed to the Birmingham Maternity Hospital , with 5 minute contractions , the evening before the 2nd Estimated Day Delivery with what turned out to be a false alarm !
13 The violence of this and a similar incident was greater than " anything I have seen in my life short of war " .
14 The boiler is 120lbs per square inch pressure with two cylinders of three and a half inch diameter , four and a quarter stroke working on driving wheels which are ten inch .
15 Using a 300 µCi ( 11 MBq ) injection of indium-111 and a 100 µCi ( 4 MBq ) injection of chromium-51 the estimated radiation dose received by the patient during these studies is 7.2 milli Sieverts ( effective dose equivalent ) .
16 The rewriting of all but a very few of these definitions was deliberately excluded from the programme of the Supplement , as it would have been both impracticable and prohibitively expensive .
17 There 's been talk of seventeen and a half per cent being added to food , to public transport and to books and its now believed that VAT on domestic fuel , which was to have been introduced in stages may come in at the full rate in the spring .
18 One school clung to the dream of revanche , the recovery of the lost provinces of 1871 and a Rhine frontier .
19 He is the biggest of all seals , growing up to 14 feet long and a weight of two and a half tonnes .
20 The shock figure of two and a half million households in debt has been reached by the independent Policy Studies Institute .
21 Determine your total daily calorie intake at a minimum figure of 850 and a maximum of 1,500 .
22 It 's best to do these on the track , but if one is not available , you can do repeats of two and a half to three and a half minutes on the road .
23 Second point is that Barton Willmore say again a settlement of two and a half thousand is needed in order to be viable , well a settlement of two and a half thousand can not possibly be justified under the statistics that we have heard to date , and it is ni it is noteworthy that Barton Willmore representative did not actually promote a need argument , therefore the settlement at two and a half thousand is n well the settlement at two and a half thousand is not necessary , and anything less than that is unsustainable , so therefore in my in my view that is a a further reason why it should not be contemplated as a solution .
24 Second point is that Barton Willmore say again a settlement of two and a half thousand is needed in order to be viable , well a settlement of two and a half thousand can not possibly be justified under the statistics that we have heard to date , and it is ni it is noteworthy that Barton Willmore representative did not actually promote a need argument , therefore the settlement at two and a half thousand is n well the settlement at two and a half thousand is not necessary , and anything less than that is unsustainable , so therefore in my in my view that is a a further reason why it should not be contemplated as a solution .
25 The details are immaterial , and it is sufficient for present purposes to say that they were concerned with two subjects , namely the accounts of Carrian and a building called Gammon House .
26 Its large terraced gardens formed but a part of six and a half acres of land enclosed on three sides by high walls and locked gates .
27 That 's to say someone is leaving and we are going to take that post out and put it into the food section , and on b , I would say to Matthew that before committing us to a budget of two and a half thousand against a background of ten percent cuts , I would suggest that the health educational help-line and their day-long courses for E H Os might be made good use of in the forth-coming year .
28 I 'm certainly not going to er w to say let's give you a trial of this or a trial of that , until we know what 's happened with your chest , so
29 Therefore , for 600 rpm , the attitude change would be 3 half-bars , that is a change of one and a half bars down from the existing attitude .
30 Under the 1944 and 1948 Education Acts such schools would have been illegal : pupils must be transferred from primary to secondary between the ages of ten and a half and twelve .
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