Example sentences of "[adj] and a [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was now thirty-one years old and a soldier and politician of great experience . |
| 2 | Mr Donovan , 23 , Australian star of the West End hit musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , brought the action after the magazine published a doctored photograph and article which , he claimed , implied that he was homosexual and a liar and hypocrite for denying it . |
| 3 | It should be obvious that a dissonance sounded by one instrument must be resolved by that instrument ( unless there is a complete break-off and a rest or pause separating the discord from what follows ) , but it is the writer 's experience that beginners do not always realize the musical necessity for this . |
| 4 | That means that two-thirds of the population can be expected to sleep between six and a half and eight and a half hours a night , about 16 per cent regularly sleep over eight and a half hours , and another 16 per cent sleep under six and a half hours . |
| 5 | ‘ It was sad and a joke and it just backfired , ’ she said . |
| 6 | AS SENIOR Civil Servants go , Nick Montagu , 45 and an Under-Secretary and principal establishments officer at the Department of Social Security , has one of the biggest burdens in the business on his shoulders . |
| 7 | Sir Charles Robinson considered him ignorant and an upstart and would not use his water , preferring to build his own reservoir at Newton . |
| 8 | The race will be over 5 miles instead of eight and a quarter and is being arranged with the help of Loftus AC road race organiser Peter Clifford . |
| 9 | I said , you 're gon na come in at two per cent , and I 'm gon na come in at twenty-two , and we both know that actually we 're gon na up finish between eight and a half and nine , do n't we ? |
| 10 | ‘ Between the two of them , he owed between three and a half and four and a half thousand dollars , just for cocaine for that weekend . ’ |
| 11 | They told us three and a half , but there again a lot of rescue people do cut the ages of their dog , but , but , our , our two vets agreed he was around three and a half , between three and a half and four , look at his teeth and his coat and his bones . |
| 12 | Depends what er this time of year about three and a half and then four in the winter . |
| 13 | With me in the studio is journalist , Dorothy Grace Elder who sixteen months ago weighed in at fourteen and a half and was perfectly happy with it . |
| 14 | That women 's seventy and a day and she 's got the body of a young girl ! |
| 15 | thing and that 's without a pump , so to set up it 'll cost me probably a thousand and a bit and I want and then I 'll need to have the rest of the money left over to survive |
| 16 | It 's a sort of slight relaxing and an aphrodisiac and it 's supposed to help your headaches . |
| 17 | Swimfeeders are plastic tubes from two to four inches long and an inch or so in diameter . |
| 18 | And you 're forty something and straight and divorced and celibate and a mother and I could n't have found a more complicated situation to fall in love with . |
| 19 | He was equable and a pessimist and very gay in everyday life . |
| 20 | History was sex , French was sex , art was sex , the Bible , poetry , penfriends , games , music , everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but obviously not really sex , not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be at one and the same time — I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all . |
| 21 | This coupling between group modes of the same symmetry should not be confused with Fermi resonance between a fundamental and an overtone or combination of the same symmetry [ see Section 5.8.6 above ] ; in the case of coupling between fundamental group modes there is no violation of the vibrational selection rule . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | you 're shoe was size twelve and a half but we have to buy thirteens for trainers |
| 24 | Because from the age of seventeen to twenty nine I worked on building sites , and that got boring so I changed and I changed and became a policeman , and I ca became a policeman when I was twenty nine and a half and it 's , I 've enjoyed it ever since cos every day is interesting , every day is different , every day is unusual . |
| 25 | The standard charge is set by the local council , and can be zero , one half , equal to , one and a half or twice the cost of the personal community charge in the area . |
| 26 | If you are using Fisherman 's rib or tuck stitch , the fabric will stretch widthways when removed from the machine , so you will need to increase the stitch by one and a half or two numbers to prevent a tight cast off . |
| 27 | er they only pay sort of one and a half or twice that 's the , that 's the purpose of the Tories |
| 28 | A good gooseberry will weigh between one and a half and two ounces and is the size of a golf ball . |
| 29 | Allow between one and a half and two inches per person . |
| 30 | For every dollar you spend on software , he alleges that you 'll spend between one and a half and two dollars simply on getting that software to work the other software you have . |