Example sentences of "[det] [adj] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By taking four years within our period , each half a century apart , one sees them glaringly clearly . |
| 2 | What 's this half a day then ? |
| 3 | Tyne Ship Repair , which includes all the nationalized repair yards , employed 850 in March 1988 compared with some 4000 a decade earlier . |
| 4 | He told Anne Ridler some time later that such a success almost prompted him to believe that the poem was not very good , although no doubt he was being partly ironic : he was , at least , demonstrating the " usefulness " which a poet might possess in time of war . |
| 5 | The core of their problem was that such a device necessarily had to be a computer and a powerful one . |
| 6 | ‘ Except perhaps for obstructing the police by not revealing all this a lot earlier . ’ |
| 7 | It was n't that important a part anyhow . ’ |
| 8 | But for the man in the street of course or anything does n't give you any such a look ahead information . |