Example sentences of "[adv] get [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 The bonus erm he only got two and a half grand last year , is he expecting to get some this year and if so what does he normally do with the money .
2 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 .
3 we 've already got four and a half boxes
4 to play with really er we c to clear ten we 've still got two and a half grand left
5 I 'm sure it 'll cost more than a quid but seeing as you ca n't like get more than a mile long piece anyway so
6 I believe in trickle filters , but they rarely get more than a passing mention .
7 And probably getting less than a third of the pay of most MPs round here .
8 You will also get ten and a half public and privilege holidays each ear .
9 But I said to her she never gets higher than a commended cos , she knows it 's cos of her weight .
10 Er so er let's say that the ten percent rate applies , er mind you ten percent is a long way from where we are now , but it makes the figures easy to look at , so er let's say that he 's getting ten percent gross on his return on a building society , he 'd actually get seven and a half percent net , er so on his ten thousand he 's going to earn seven fifty .
11 They would never get more than a phrase completed before an argument would break out as to the merit of either the words or the music .
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