Example sentences of "of [adj] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fine Gael had a PV of 27.1 and a PS of 30.7 . |
| 2 | There was also the occasional case of petty theft , street fighting or traffic offences which often ended up with a plea of Guilty and a fine of a few dollars or a short period in goal . |
| 3 | Within the Cabinet , it was , paradoxically , Snowden — usually regarded as a sea-green incorruptible on the issue of free trade — who , overcome by hatred of Labour and a desire to smash his old party , appeared to relish the idea of an early election in which Labour would go down to defeat . |
| 4 | A coalition consisting only of Labour and a party to its left would have immense trouble foisting the trauma of withdrawal on Israel . |
| 5 | With the drive cache disabled , it turned in a power rating of 14,203 and a WinTach rating of 3.75 , which is n't bad . |
| 6 | The race will be over 5 miles instead of eight and a quarter and is being arranged with the help of Loftus AC road race organiser Peter Clifford . |
| 7 | The faintly stoned Indian vocal line does n't help , and somehow this seems to me like a cross between ‘ What Time Is Love ’ and ‘ Fools Gold ’ with the charm of neither and a lot of other unnecessary junk . |
| 8 | The FT Government Securities index currently stands at 88.18 against a high for the year to date of 89.75 and a low of 85.11 ( see panel ) . |
| 9 | Determine your total daily calorie intake at a minimum figure of 850 and a maximum of 1,500 . |
| 10 | In each tribe , as we have seen , there were a number of coastal , a number of inland and a number of city demes , about sixteen councillors from each type going to make up a trittys ( only in the tribe to which Acharnai belonged was this system modified , because twenty-two out of fifty councillors is already well over a third ) . |
| 11 | He must be a physician , having books of physick and a herbal by him . |
| 12 | When he died in 1980 , the brothers decided to buy the landscaping division and concluded the deal almost four years later , when Waterers was losing money on a staff of 12 and a turnover of £400,000 . |
| 13 | The following example explains how a bar of 12/8 translates into a bar of 4/4 , a bar of 6/8 translates into a bar of 2/4 and a bar of 9/8 translates into a bar of 3/4 : |
| 14 | ‘ A bit of this and a bit of that . |
| 15 | Bit of this and a bit of that . |
| 16 | Take a pinch of this and a pinch of that , stir well under a slow heat , and see what happens . |
| 17 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 18 | The calculated minimal sample size was eight subjects in each group , with an alpha risk of 0.05 and a beta risk of 0.10 . |
| 19 | I live in a parish of 12,000 and a town of 30,000 . |
| 20 | There is a cast of 100 and a stage crew of 20 but every pupil in the school was involved in the artwork , costumes and hall decorations . |
| 21 | I 'm 32 and have two children from a first marriage — a daughter of 10 and a son of 13 . |
| 22 | the age of six and a half |
| 23 | Li , a veteran of the Long March of 1934-35 and a commander of the Red Army prior to its revolutionary victory in 1949 , was a self-taught economist from a peasant family . |
| 24 | As it happens , the problems of an unstaged Porgy are hardly less acute — a cast of 24 soloists and a duration of three and a quarter hours are not easily managed in the concert hall . |
| 25 | The following season he was back at the Festival as favourite for the Gold Cup , but soft going and the distance of three and a quarter miles proved his undoing , and he finished fifth . |
| 26 | After meeting Prince Charles , Diana went back to school that November day to have a second shot at her O levels , which eluded her yet again , and the following month , at the age of sixteen and a half , she left for good . |
| 27 | A scale was formed by simply scoring the number of times the respondent said that he or she was satisfied ; the resulting scale started with a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 6 , but it was dichotomized at the median value into a scale of political alienation with two values ( high and low ) . |
| 28 | Using a comprehensive selection of standard psychological tests between October and December 1979 , Tunstall came to the conclusion that Mr X had an IQ of 80 and a reading comprehension age , in English , of 71/2 years . |
| 29 | With a span of control of 5 and a salary differential of 25 per cent , this implies a ‘ mark-up ’ over the front-line costs of ⅓ to allow for the hierarchical ‘ overhead ’ . |
| 30 | Intensive Group Courses : They are offered throughout the year for executives and for serious students of all professions and institutions of learning , who enjoy the challenge of quick progress in a small group of an average of 5 and a maximum of 7 participants . |