Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Say the town had only got three and a bit thousand people anyhow , three thousand people , erm there was very very little actual passenger traffic . |
| 2 | More money was soon made available and a plan for expansion drawn up by an official from the BBC in London . |
| 3 | we 've already got four and a half boxes |
| 4 | Originally intended to have taken the form of a binding Convention , it was watered down to a " Statement " as a result of concerted lobbying by a number of timber-exporting countries , led by Malaysia , which viewed it as an attack on sovereignty , and accused northern countries of hypocrisy , given the fact that they had already destroyed all but a tiny fraction of their own virgin forests . |
| 5 | Found in savanna woodland and grassland wherever there is such terrain throughout subsaharan Africa , the warthog is one of the classic wild pigs , an animal whose distinctive countenance seems to stick in the mind of anyone who 's ever seen one or a picture of one . |
| 6 | to play with really er we c to clear ten we 've still got two and a half grand left |
| 7 | For Esteban Vicente , still busy at work in his Bridgehampton studio as he enters his ninth decade , the sweet blarings of Fame 's trumpet have always had more than a little in common with the songs of the sirens . |
| 8 | Old providers of employment are artificially kept alive until a point is reached when it becomes obvious that support must be switched off . |
| 9 | Coriolanus is seen as a magnificent warrior , a psychologically damaged mother-worshipper and a potential threat to an evolving republic . |
| 10 | They were often born limbless because a pharmaceutical company failed to adequately test a product . |
| 11 | When the whistle was finally blown on the crime by a disgruntled ex-employee , thousands of policy-holders and share-holders simply lost all or a substantial part of their savings or expected pensions , amounting to somewhere between two and three billion dollars . |
| 12 | By 10.30 he had gone down the full length of the corridor that ran past his office and he had then spent two and a half hours in H3 's laboratory . |
| 13 | Almost universally , the opinion is that the trial should never have taken place , which is of little comfort to the defendants who , they say , have effectively lost two and a half years of their lives . |
| 14 | If an employee is wrongfully dismissed then whether a covenant is reasonable or not is irrelevant . |
| 15 | More than 1,200 people , of whom two-thirds were Moslems , were officially reported killed and a further 5,000 injured in sectarian violence which erupted across India after Hindu extremists reduced to rubble the 16th century Babri mosque at Ayodhya , in the state of Uttar Pradesh , on Dec. 6 . |
| 16 | The place is in the same gleaming order as when I left it last , the only sign of Lee 's presence being the neatly made camp-bed and a regimented row of balled socks beside his kit-bag in the dining room . |
| 17 | And yet , ever since they had returned to New York , Laura had barely had more than a few minutes ' private conversation with her husband . |
| 18 | Or the second model they gave was the special constable either a newly recruited special or a person who is an existing special to work in the in the parish . |
| 19 | Winners of the Treble Chance swooned at the sight of the cheque and were generally paraded to the Press and public as examples of how , at any minute , any humble citizen who had never had more than a day out at Blackpool could strike gold . |
| 20 | There are still countries — South Africa being one example — where the great majority of people have never had more than a very restricted right to vote , and many others in which this right has , at various times , been curtailed or abrogated . |
| 21 | A mechanism is therefore suggested such that a protein that has no affinity for the double stranded PPT element can interact specifically with one DNA strand after formation of the cruciform . |