Example sentences of "[coord] a [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | A glass of wine , a measure of spirits or a half a pint of beer equal a unit . |
2 | In this test the material is in the form of a bar a quarter or a half an inch square and is often provided with a standard notch to initiate failure . |
3 | I think in some ways that particular example illustrates a characteristic of microcomputer systems in general , and that is that from a technological point of view what we 're talking about is an extremely sophisticated approach to the problem , but the objective is very clear ; that you come down to perhaps maybe a quarter or an eighth the amount of copper in the wiring harness . |
4 | The owner , wisely not trusting London tap water for his greenhouse , had installed a network of guttering to catch rainwater in a pair of large aluminium beer barrels ( worth over a hundred quid to the brewery and a thousand a ton to the illegal smelting operations over in Barking ) . |
5 | The new " Ring " , however , still stages major races and a round the world sports car championship is held over the famous circuit to maintain the long association with one of motor racing 's most forbidding and famous circuits . |
6 | Well I do n't know somebody say Mao leading to such and a such a phase or |
7 | And a half a quart is one pint . |
8 | For a century and a half the subject of sexuality was taboo in much of Western society and it was only after the Second World War that this taboo decayed sufficiently for a body of formal knowledge concerning sexuality to be scientifically built up . |
9 | Also at ten and a half the baby book comments : ‘ Is prudish about bodies ’ . |
10 | In the conventional view , Britain , once a legend throughout the world for its stolid , peaceable , and harmonious character , has experienced in the last decade and a half an alien and shocking advent of unprecedented incivility and disorder . |
11 | Tristan has two near neighbours , both uninhabited , Nightingale and Inaccessible , and a third a couple of hundred kilometres further south , Gough Island ; all of them are the battered remains of extinct volcanoes . |
12 | In 1291 King Edward I granted a charter which gave the villagers the right to hold a market every Monday , and a fair every year on Trinity Monday and Tuesday . |