Example sentences of "[det] [adj] and a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nine hundred of the strongest men worked for about three hours to lift me on to the platform , and one thousand five hundred of the King 's largest horses ( each eleven and a half centimetres high ) pulled me to the capital . |
| 2 | He then hooked Andrew Caddick for another six and a perfectly timed shot off Richard Snell sailed over the square leg boundary and into a back garden . |
| 3 | Up river some two and a half miles from Blackfriars was a convenient creek and there the fertile land had long produced fruit and vegetables for the City . |
| 4 | It once had a spire which , along with those at Ottringham and Patrington , helped to guide the mariners sailing on the river Humber some two and a half miles to the south . |
| 5 | They were all excited and a little ashamed . |