Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have always spoken and used European languages a lot and my wife Annie is the same . |
| 2 | And we do provide you with sales literature to say well actually strange to say but it has gone up recently it is only fifty eight pounds a week . |
| 3 | But you 're amazingly lucky to have that fifty pounds a year ! |
| 4 | a hundred and fifty odd meals a day |
| 5 | He has a share in a four-seat Piper based at Teesside Airport and , as he prepares to retire on March 31 , he is looking forward to putting in more than his usual 70 hours a year flying time . |
| 6 | Regional French dishes a speciality . |
| 7 | It was a wonderful combination of talents : Langan created the legendary ambience , Caine supplied the celebrity customers and Shepherd won critical acclaim for his unpretentious menu featuring black pudding with apples and bangers and mash — as well as his ability to sell up to 700 outstanding meals a day . |
| 8 | ‘ I have a good business partner but I still find it hard dealing with this 365 days a year . |
| 9 | It is expected that a lexicographer should be able to process some 75 entries a day doing trivial editing tasks and between 10 and 12 entries a day resolving complex editorial tasks . |
| 10 | Cauterets claims to have a more plentiful supply of sulphurous waters than any other spa on earth , to the tune of a million and a half health-giving litres a day , and this is a claim you will not wish to dispute once you have pushed open the swing doors to the neo-Roman ‘ Baths of Caesar ’ and breathed in the warm and all too recognizably sulphur-laden air . |
| 11 | Some 65,000 cars a day are illegally parked and anyone unlucky enough to get caught in future could lose their driving licence for a time . |
| 12 | In saying that , at the end of the month if we do pay this amount of money , I only earn five hundred pounds a month , that 's four hundred and forty eight pounds a month . |
| 13 | The system is required to cope with a turnaround of some 500 entries a day . |
| 14 | The shots on show at the Isabelle Bongard in celebration of the ‘ Mois de la Photo ’ are remarkable for their elusive light effects a testimony to Mercardier 's patience . |
| 15 | Sponsored by Wedgwood , Ray attended Staffordshire University for around nine hours each week and studied at home for a further 12 hours a week . |
| 16 | In the early 1970s there were some 800 apprentices a year recruited into Tyneside ship-building and -repair with others acquiring relevant skills in engineering and plating factories . |
| 17 | The glossy commercial features a killer whale … several seal lions and a voice-over by Angus Deayton , but some people are sceptical whether it 's the way to create the right impression |
| 18 | Childline North West , which will be officially launched later this month , is already up and running and receiving some 300 calls a day . |
| 19 | Run by a staff of six from an office in London , UK , Gemini sends some 12 news-features a week to newspapers and magazines around the world . |
| 20 | ‘ That fellow do have forty different diseases a day lately , ’ Phil said . |
| 21 | And we used to ha , we used to come down here some some evenings a gang of us remember I used to look ever so small |
| 22 | Aleks ( Russia ) , a Moscow-based security company , is marketing a computer database of business partners to avoid : rather suspiciously launched on April 1 , the service — Conduit — has information on what it calls ‘ untrustworthy commercial partners ’ and the database is apparently updated by aggrieved entrepreneurs and firms that have been victims of fraud or deceit and are seeking redress ( or revenge ) — canny Aleks says it can not be responsible for the data contained on the database ; users must pay 5,000 roubles as an initial fee , plus another 100 roubles a month and 20 roubles for each reference . |
| 23 | The top five men and women will win vouchers , the top 100 finishers a T-shirt and everyone receives a commemorative mug and certificate . |
| 24 | Repayment mortgages payable over 25 years can be extended to 30 or 35 years , earning you a few extra pounds a month because you will be paying less for longer . |
| 25 | Together their income is £44,000 , more than the Lippitt family and far more than the Belkin family , yet they will only pay a few extra pounds a week in combined tax under Labour . |
| 26 | Since the days of Henry III at least , kings had claimed from each newly elected bishop and from some monastic superiors a living or pension for a royal clerk . |
| 27 | For those reasons as I , have I , hoped made plain , it seems to me that the general scheme provided by Mrs is the one that ought to be adopted , however in my view when Mrs also makes provision for a second carer for some three hours a day that is well over egging the pudding , if I may adopt a phrase used by Mr at one stage during the case , I feel sure that in practice the two resident carers would not simply say well I 'm on duty from eight am on Monday till twelve midday on Thursday and I shall do nothing during the rest of the week , I think that living in the household for , at |
| 28 | In addition to the serious and much publicised problem of badger baiting and digging , much of which occurs in my own county , and sett stopping , there is the appalling road-kill statistic of some 47,500 badgers a year . |
| 29 | Mr Foggerty was agreeably surprised , but when Nutty reminded him of the standard required , he relapsed into grim gloom and stood on the side of the bath in his white T-shirt and jeans looking at his watch and saying , ‘ I ca n't spare the time to do this three nights a week for the next year , which is what is required . |
| 30 | So , if I lose a stone , I need to eat 200–300 fewer calories a day for the rest of my life , just to keep at the same weight . |