Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] a [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sticking up into the Gulf of Mexico like a thumb , Yucatan points towards Miami and New Orleans , each only an hour and a half from Merida by air . |
| 2 | We thought this rather a joke but his concern was academic , not snobbish . |
| 3 | While most practising firms are having no difficulty in retaining and recruiting staff in the midst of a recession , the situation was , of course , very different only a year or two ago and will probably change again just as rapidly . |
| 4 | The clarifying question is : " Is this really a problem or am I just choosing to look at it as a problem ? " |
| 5 | I mean I walk around the town and I see a factory or a shop or a house , it only got to be empty about a week and all the windows are smashed . |
| 6 | A sauna is available free twice a week and there is also a fitness room . |
| 7 | The tenancy is to be monthly at a nominal rent of £2 per month payable in advance , ( I would suggest that this should be payable once a year and would be grateful for your agreement to this ) . |
| 8 | He ate these twice a year or so |
| 9 | Now we 've got a good long a session and hour and a quarter and tea afterwards . |
| 10 | This is only a guide , of course , but your score can be interpreted as follows : 9–15 Definitely a lark 16–20 Moderately a lark 21–26 Neither a lark nor an owl ; intermediate type 27–31 Moderately an owl 32–38 Definitely an owl |
| 11 | The drawings show two creatures , one obviously a lion and the other an animal facing a man of muscular appearance ( fig. 14.30 ) . |
| 12 | From November to April wild-bird food is available once a day and nuts are suspended in a holder . |
| 13 | A new survey shows that one in three students gets drunk once a week and also takes drugs at parties . |
| 14 | Fewers Heretors , Tacksmen of Islay " met , at first twice a year and later annually to consider what needed to be spent and how it was to be raised . |
| 15 | Fewers Heretors , Tacksmen of Islay " met , at first twice a year and later annually to consider what needed to be spent and how it was to be raised . |
| 16 | If the story is newsworthy enough a newspaper or radio station will use it , however dull and uninteresting the press release . |
| 17 | The Central Market clinic was only open twice a week and , in common with the entire public health service , medicines were almost non-existent . |
| 18 | Yes , yes I use the M four quite a bit and I suppose I 'm so used to that I do n't mind it . |
| 19 | Er I think there 's er one problem of course is that regional newspapers do depend on situations vacant quite a bit and the situations vacant market is n't improving dramatically . |
| 20 | The heat on the rock flow became intense only an hour or two after sunrise . |
| 21 | Very fashionable about a year and a half ago again , because all these things come round again do n't they ? |