Example sentences of "[coord] [det] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or half a can of paraffin , if you 're anything like most of the scouts I 've met . |
| 2 | For instance , the use of cannabis by the young is far more likely to be branded as ‘ drug-taking'/'drug addiction ’ and hence a ‘ social problem ’ than is the consumption of thirty cigarettes a day by adults or half a bottle of brandy by middle-class businessmen . |
| 3 | The doctor said : ‘ A specimen of blood showed he had drunk the equivalent of nine or ten pints of lager or half a bottle of spirits . ’ |
| 4 | Protractors , compasses , rulers , and any other impressive props we could think of — even a film-footage chart , and the monocular ( or half a pair of binoculars ) inherited from our stepfather . |
| 5 | One drink means a single measure of spirit , a glass of wine , a small glass of sherry or half a pint of beer or lager . |
| 6 | One unit is equivalent to one pub measure or glass of wine , sherry , or whisky , or half a pint of beer or cider . |
| 7 | alcohol 3 units per day ( 1 unit = 1 glass of wine , 1 measure spirit or half a pint of beer or lager ) |
| 8 | One unit is a glass of wine , a measure of spirits or half a pint of beer . |
| 9 | Effects vary according to individual health , weight and sex but , as a rough measure , three single whiskies drunk in one hour might result in 0.05% alcohol content in the blood — this would lift spirits and lessen inhibitions ( a single whisky is equivalent to one glass of wine or half a pint of beer ) . |
| 10 | One unit is equal to a small glass of wine , or half a pint of ordinary strength beer or lager , one measure of spirit or a small sherry . |
| 11 | I desire you will send by y bearer 2 quarts of Sugar Hotspur peas to set the first crop , & half a peck of Windsor Beans , & pray bring y Hammer with you w . |
| 12 | I must admit we were certainly not expecting such an abundance of fish , nor such a diversity of species , from such a small pool . |
| 13 | And that a bit of meat there . |
| 14 | Some are witty , some serious , and some a mixture of each . |
| 15 | Almond oil ( 90p for 50ml from Boots ) is ideal , or you can make an even richer concoction by adding a teaspoon of warmed clear honey to a tablespoon each of almond , sesame and olive oils and half a tablespoon of glycerine . |
| 16 | The opera was to be half a triumphant progress of a great queen through history ( and how appropriate that it should contain , in Act Two , a Royal Progress ) , and half a story of an old woman disappointed by a selfish man . |
| 17 | On February 10th , five men , three sledges , eighteen dogs , and half a tonne of food left Framheim and went south . |
| 18 | Yeah and half a portion of chips . |
| 19 | But it was about i there were three things on the day , so it should be an hour and half a couple of hours . |
| 20 | Insulted by Commander Moelchert 's offer of a side of bacon and half a sack of hardtack , the warriors looted the station for flour , sugar , coffee , pots and pans . |
| 21 | Dafalla woke to find the railway station yard covered with water , and half a mile of track submerged . |
| 22 | She had tomatoes and half a head of expensive out-of-season lettuce . |
| 23 | After a shamingly large second supper of chicken , sweetcorn and cake , a vast vodka and tonic and half a bottle of red wine , at one o'clock in the morning the chatter suddenly turned into the Frogsmore Stream running under Snow Cottage and she fell asleep until six to find the chatter going on as loud as ever . |
| 24 | They waited ten minutes , Paul timing it exactly on his wristwatch , then crept back to find Gittings comfortably installed on a newly delivered double bed , beginning his lunch of two fresh fish cutters and half a bottle of five-star rum . |
| 25 | Medical experts told the court that they found cocaine and half a bottle of whisky in Kim Brockwell 's body . |
| 26 | Stranded in the Kalahari desert we had no water and half a packet of Marie biscuits . |
| 27 | The roofing felt was eventually fixed with a gallon of disgusting adhesive and half a pound of nails , which just about completed the major work , everything else could be classified as ‘ off jobs ’ to finish off . |
| 28 | On December 17th 1803 the house committee ordered that each patient and servant belonging to the House should have ‘ one pound of Plumb Pudding and half a pound of Beef ’ for dinner on Christmas Day . |
| 29 | Pound of flour and half a pound of marg , and an onion . |
| 30 | Otherwise , rationing restricts Romanians to one kilo of meat a month and half a loaf of bread a day . |