Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more international brasserie dishes on the elegant and rather over-long menu reflect this straightforward approach : nothing flashy or too sauced and a strong injection of Britishness . |
| 2 | Tony Paignton , although only twenty-one and a merry-faced person bubbling over with fun , was an intensely serious young man . |
| 3 | ‘ She has given her final view today and although only 15 and a half , she knows her own mind . ’ |
| 4 | It will be within the memory of the House — although the memories of Conservative Members are probably as blank as Conservative Benches — that about five and a half years ago the right Hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) when he was the Secretary of State for Transport implemented a very novel idea . |
| 5 | And effectively three and a half to four foot off the ground . |
| 6 | With almost as much of an increase in the volume of exports and an even greater one in that of re-exports , ports engaged in foreign trade were , as a group , handling four times as much cargo in 1800 as they had been in 1700 , and perhaps two and a half times as much as in 1750 . |
| 7 | Seven and a quarter million voted , yes , and only one and a half million ‘ no ’ out of an electorate of roughly ten million . |
| 8 | Progress is inevitably slower and more tiring and a bulky pack may make difficult terrain even more demanding , sometimes dangerously so . |
| 9 | Public transport in the town was frequent and fairly cheap and a high proportion of people travelling to the shops did so by bus . |
| 10 | He 's very beautiful and very loving and a very great pleasure to be with . |
| 11 | The rooms are back to normal , but much tidier and a good deal cleaner . ’ |
| 12 | So on top of the five shows and rehearsals every day at the Rex , they did another four at the Olympia and did not even receive double salaries but only one and a half . |
| 13 | But still tired and a bit ? |
| 14 | The budget was attacked by opposition leaders as highly inflationary and a " command budget of the IMF " . |
| 15 | As Gloucester used to be a major droving centre , there was inevitably much crossing with various Welsh types and the Gloucester 's slender , white , dark-tipped horns , spreading quite wide and tilting upwards at the tip , are often similar in style to those of the Welsh , though more refined and a little shorter . |
| 16 | The latter , with its emphasis on drug use as victimless , and youthful deviance as relatively harmless and a form of generational and gender-based continuity in working-class families , is clearly in need of revision . |