Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [noun sg] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I mean you do n't want to go di di down to a size eight or a size ten , cos I think you 'd feel |
| 2 | Rives had everything , including immense strength , whereas Jones is hugely athletic and can jump as high as a guy six inches taller than himself . |
| 3 | It has been essential to use light tackle and if he tries a hook any bigger than a size 22 , the fish wo n't even look at the bait . |
| 4 | Now that 's a plus six and a plus four what 's the answer ? |
| 5 | You 've got a minus six and a minus four . |
| 6 | Boy thirteen and a girl eleven . |
| 7 | The sounds they produce in their larynx may reach as far up the ultrasonic scale as 200 000 hertz , allowing them to detect objects as tiny as a midget 20 metres away . |
| 8 | There was a snowfall just before the turn of the year in 1962 , and this is a picture of the 11.07 departure from Chesterfield Central to Nottingham , double-headed by Ivatt class 4 43156 and a class 5 4–6–0 seen approaching Horns Bridge . |
| 9 | I am 5′ 1″ tall and a size 10–12 , but only take size 2½–3 in shoes . |
| 10 | There 's about three and a quarter million of those , as and when this slide was made for the self-employed . |
| 11 | Erm round about three and a quarter thousand . |
| 12 | We did a lot of talking , of course , and then it was decided that we could possibly raise some money by going to the League of Friends , which we did , and they very generously provided well in fact the whole total is about five thousand pounds , of which three and a half thousands represents the computer , and we 're about to go live , as it were , in a week or two . |
| 13 | Say the town had only got three and a bit thousand people anyhow , three thousand people , erm there was very very little actual passenger traffic . |
| 14 | ‘ A trusted formula for me is a 57 or a Beyer 201 , with perhaps a Neumann U87 in the room — but definitely not too close to the cab . |
| 15 | Even rarer treasures , such as a pair of early A- and B-model Mustangs , a Commonwealth Boomerang , Hawker Tempest II and a SPAD VII were in Weeks ' storage and restoration facility at Tamiami , which was also destroyed . |
| 16 | While not as watertight as a Section 50 agreement , planning conditions have been used elsewhere to control phasing . |
| 17 | The System 15000 , due for delivery by the end of the year , will sell at around £10,000 more than a base 10000 system . |
| 18 | Even clothes for ‘ the larger woman ’ are usually modelled on women who are scarcely more than a size 12 . |
| 19 | After a brief spell with ex-GN Class 312s , relief came in 1988 with brand-new Class 321s , sporting a smart exterior , but in truth little more than a Class 319 Thameslink unit without the end gangway connection . |
| 20 | Check the facts ; the RS Carrera costs £61,100 , £15,000 more than a stock 911 Carrera 2 . |
| 21 | You need to select flat water conditions with no more than a Force 3 otherwise you will be concentrating too hard on staying upright rather than thinking about the exercises . |
| 22 | be less than a want two hundred and eighty . |
| 23 | ( 6 ) If the bidder is a listed company then the takeover will require a circular to its shareholders and their approval in general meeting if it is a Super Class 1 or a Class 4 transaction or if it is a reverse takeover of an unlisted company ( see para 17.2 below ) . |
| 24 | as most Easter eggs go to kids , they put them in a breakable cup , while they do n't put them in a plastic one or a melamine one |
| 25 | Colin Calderwood , the man who skippered the Robins to their Wembley triumph last season , but joined Tottenham Hotspur soon after , has been valued by an independent transfer tribunal at 1 and a quarter million pounds . |
| 26 | Another nine and a brother fourteen |
| 27 | The motor age had arrived and by the end of the 1950s one and a quarter million new vehicles were being registered every year . |
| 28 | Telethon '92 raised one and a quarter million pounds for charities across the Central region — recipients like Play for Children in Nottingham will be sorry to see it go . |
| 29 | A transfer tribunal has valued Swindon Town 's former captain Colin Calderwood at one and a quarter million pounds . |
| 30 | Once one thinks in terms of the man on the one hand , and his writings on the other , one is surprise , even , I think , puzzled and disconcerted , by the disparity , the apparent disparity at any rate , between , on the one hand , the frequenter of the Faubourg Saint Germain salons , and , on the other , the author of À la Recherche , between the rather eccentric hypochondriac and the observer in the novel of human weakness , erm between perhaps the often precious and whimsical Figaro columnist and the architect of an astonishingly complex and lengthy novel , amounting to something like one and a quarter million words . |