Example sentences of "[not/n't] bad for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He claims to have been paddling for 26 years , not bad for a 32 year old . |
| 2 | Former Supreme Diana Ross posed in a skimpy T-shirt and delightedly declared : ‘ Not bad for a 49-year-old mother of five . ’ |
| 3 | William Whitelaw 's brother officers in the Scots Guards included , for example , a future Archbishop of Canterbury , a future Lord Chamberlain , the man who would become Moderator of the Church of Scotland , the future chairman of United Biscuits and five lord lieutenants as well as the Home Secretary : not bad for a single officers ' mess . |
| 4 | If power is reduced below that required for level flight when the wheels are retracted the plastic wheel flashes red — not bad for a forty-year-old design . |
| 5 | Not bad for a little girl of 4 who , just over a year ago , could n't speak a word of English ( could barely speak , indeed , a word of anything ) . |
| 6 | Not bad for a rain-soaked island somewhere off the northern coast of Europe . |
| 7 | Not bad for a 8,400 guineas buy . ’ |
| 8 | Not bad for a free transfer . |