Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dakletons have a crew of seven or eight and a patrol time of six hours . |
| 2 | Like an agent , a distributor will usually be a local firm or individual and a specialist in the requirements of the local market . |
| 3 | Membership of this club entails attending an annual dinner at which some 400 of Edinburgh 's most prominent citizens assemble to celebrate Scott 's memory , at which an admiral or general and a judge respond to toasts to the Armed Forces and the Law , and the president speaks on some aspect of the author of the Waverley novels . |
| 4 | Two of the dead were children , a girl aged about eight or nine and a boy of about eleven years , they were travelling together , but otherwise unaccompanied . |
| 5 | Copious salivation ; often with a metallic taste or sweet or salty and a sense of dryness with intense thirst sometimes . |
| 6 | Then they were all friends together , but within an hour or two and a pint or two , or three or four , of rough cider or scrumpy , how their personalities changed . |
| 7 | Saying , if I get a farm with cows and sheep and a five-bar gate and chickens and a coop and a metal stream and a few trees about the place and a green field made of billiard cloth and a dog or two and a cat — never mind the cat — and perhaps a fox on a hill … if I get this , with a pair of ball-bearing roller skates so that I can gleam and flash and go backwards through the heavy Friday traffic and be as glamorous as Boy Davids from the Park … |
| 8 | ( Botticker had similarly gone through multiple plate glass windows — real glass , in fact , primed with explosive charges , not plastic ones — with no more than a cut or two and a designer-plaster . ) |
| 9 | Well , I think I ca n't stretch the secretary 's report much longer than one and a half |
| 10 | Pocket sprung mattresses can cope with weight differences of up to four stone , but if you and your partner 's weight differs by more than four and a half stone ( 30kg ) your best bet is a pair of ‘ zip-and-link ’ mattresses . |
| 11 | From a frightening ratio of expenditure to fares revenue of four to one , the ratio has improved to better than two and a half to one and it is stili improving . |
| 12 | How would they shake down in such a confined space with what amounted to more than two and a half ? |
| 13 | And I 've seen when getting corn er just right er dressed for the mill , I 've seen us er doing with a spade and that and a tub . |
| 14 | to stop the wetness seeping through and that the gel , what they do is they shave rabbits , and rub it into their skin , the rashes and that and a couple of rabbits have died from it when they first started testing the stuff |
| 15 | And it 's a family that 's well known as a bit you know Geordies and that and a couple of rottweilers . |
| 16 | When they was doing the decorating and that and a lock went wrong oh take it down to Dick and er they 'd bring it and whatever I was doing , however important it was , just because they 'd be finish the decorating at night and they wanted to put the lock back , I 'd drop what I was doing and do this for them . |
| 17 | So Peter Yeo had to look reassuring and solid and a bit older , while Timothy Hutton could probably have come to work in striped organza without losing a single client . |
| 18 | So , and eight and a half for that one . |
| 19 | The director whose most famous films include the and Eight and a Half will be buried in the family crypt in his home town of Rimini . |
| 20 | An argument apparently broke out during these talks , and fierce fighting ensued in which Doe was shot and wounded and a total of 64 men , mostly from Doe 's contingent , were believed to have been killed . |
| 21 | There was a long delay between the pupils ' arrival and the commencement of the displays and chanting , during which Miss Cackle and the teachers greeted friends and acquaintances , and the girls all stood to attention , being neat and well-behaved and a credit to the school . |
| 22 | I enjoyed all the workshops very much , because the knitters were keen and interested and a delight to teach . |
| 23 | It is disgusting and immoral and a disgrace . |
| 24 | And that plane went on to set a world air speed record of six hundred and six and a quarter miles per hour . |
| 25 | And that plane went on to set a world air speed record of six hundred and six and a quarter miles per hour . |
| 26 | What was the name of the plane that went on to set a world air speed record of six hundred and six and a quarter miles per hour . |
| 27 | The first pay they got was two the the first I remember people gillying for the Stenness Hotel , their pay was two and six and a gill of whisky . |
| 28 | With a deficit of 552 and thirteen and a quarter hours left , obviously only the weather was going to save England , so there was not the least justification for the barrage of short balls that Holding and Roberts hurled at Edrich and Close . |
| 29 | Fourteen and nineteen and a half . |
| 30 | Johnny 's ring … old and valuable and a family heirloom . |