Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I had to place my cock down on the glass , but the way this copier is designed — I disliked this copier , by the way , that place is too cheap to lease a decent brand of copier — the way it 's designed is that a normal eight and a half by eleven piece of paper is oriented sideways in the middle of the glass between two marks , you how that works , right ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ So the problem then is that only a little sliver of the tip of my cock was going to make it in range of the footprint of a normal eight and a half by eleven copy . |
| 3 | Pressures on household and corporate borrowers have been eased significantly since last October by a series of interest rate reductions , which have reduced base rates by a cumulative four and a half percentage points to date . |
| 4 | This awareness of im-pending disaster was exacerbated in the early seventies when a slump occurred in the property market . |
| 5 | The other pilots all attacked the remaining three and a multiplicity of claims were made , Plt.Off . |
| 6 | It was not until the feminist movement re-emerged with vigour in the early 1970s that a critique of ‘ permissiveness ’ was constructed . |
| 7 | Stewart Mason , the new Chairman of the NCDAD , was — as we have seen — convinced by the early 1970s that a merger was both inevitable and desirable . |
| 8 | The major step forward in understanding the role of chlamydia in oculo-genital infection came in the early sixties when a group of workers in London published several reports connecting eye infection in the newborn baby with the presence of chlamydia in the mother 's genital tract and non-specific urethritis in the father . |
| 9 | they nearly paid her erm early forties and a spinster . |
| 10 | Planning and the rational model fell into disrepute in the mid to late 1970s for a number of reasons . |
| 11 | Those in the know say that ‘ vibe ’ was a hippy term that disappeared in Dublin during the punk purges but resurfaced in the late Eighties when a town bathing in the warm glow of U2 's global ascendancy rediscovered its ( hippy ? ) roots . |
| 12 | For a Government with a fifty billion pound deficit to tackle it 's a tempting target for VAT , bringing in an estimated two and a quarter billion pounds . |
| 13 | It was however in the late 1950s that a dog arrived who embodied everything that was thought to be correct , a living blueprint for further development . |
| 14 | Sheen engineer Mr Doug Blackhurst designed , built , fires and helps to drive two twin-cylinder ten and a quarter inch gauge loco 's , ‘ Dove ’ and ‘ Manifold ’ , which run double-headed up the beautiful Manifold Valley which divides the Peak District counties of Staffordshire and Derbyshire . |
| 15 | Originally it was planned to bring the tax in in two stages starting with an eight per cent rise and then moving up to the full seventeen and a half . |
| 16 | Another case involved a collision in mid-air between an Iberian DC-9 and a Spantax Convair Coronado over Nantes in France , in which the great majority of the passengers in the DC-9 were British . |
| 17 | In June 1968 , at their first meeting , Ceauşescu shrewdly let a twenty minute courtesy call run on for a flattering two and a quarter hours . |
| 18 | Look forward to a miserable 1990 and a fast-improving 1991 , vicious circles permitting . |
| 19 | The pair added a fluent 80 before a mix-up saw the latter depart , although TV replays suggested he was unlucky . |
| 20 | Back at Talland Bay our Officers let the smugglers do the heavy work of loading the huge two and a quarter ton cargo of cannabis resin ( street value £2,500,000 wrapped in Christmas paper into vans before moving in to arrest them while cottages and a cafe in the area used by the UK based gang were also raided . |