Example sentences of "a [adj] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Built in left-hand-drive form only , a mere 125 a year of the 155mph saloon will reach the UK , starting around mid-year at a price expected to be close to £52,000 . |
| 2 | Prost lost the championship by an even smaller margin the following year when Niki Lauda , his new team-mate at McLaren , pipped him by a mere half a point despite the Frenchman winning seven rounds . |
| 3 | The dieter in our example therefore wants to think in terms of an average loss of a mere half a pound ( a quarter of a kilogram ) each week . |
| 4 | They 've got a good seven a side outdoor astroturf pitch which we can hire fairly cheaply . |
| 5 | Of a planned 2,266 a total of 1,581 Cuban troops had been withdrawn during January , bringing to 31,138 the number withdrawn since January 1989 . |
| 6 | [ F ] rom the early 1960s the bulldozers began to bite into the inner cities : slum clearance in Britain rose from less than 35,000 houses a year in 1955 to a steady 70,000 a year from 1960 . |
| 7 | Business failures , which have rocketed to a staggering 76 a day , should also decline . |
| 8 | If a Christian wrong a Jew , what should his suffrance be by Christian example ? |
| 9 | If processing time is negligible there will be an additional half a revolution to return to the next prime track record , and the total time to locate and process the overflow record will be precisely one revolution . |
| 10 | It now houses nearly three million volumes and each year an additional half a mile of shelving is needed . |
| 11 | Now we can reveal he has been offered a new deal worth an EXTRA 2,000 a week . |
| 12 | ‘ I often advise women that an extra half a stone will benefit their hair , ’ says Glenn . |
| 13 | Sao Paulo 's capitalization alone , which had dropped by 70 per cent to US$15,400 million in 1990 , had recovered to $36,900 million by May and the volume of shares transacted had risen from an estimated 17,000,000 a day in January 1991 to an estimated 40-50,000,000 a day by June . |
| 14 | Sao Paulo 's capitalization alone , which had dropped by 70 per cent to US$15,400 million in 1990 , had recovered to $36,900 million by May and the volume of shares transacted had risen from an estimated 17,000,000 a day in January 1991 to an estimated 40-50,000,000 a day by June . |