Example sentences of "the [adj] [indef pn] and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The white one and a a |
| 2 | They found that much of the large negative basis in the first one and a half hours of trading was due to the use of stale prices from Friday 16 October in computing the index . |
| 3 | Of the approximate one and a half thousand pounds from the sale of the Volvo , minus expenses , that he regarded legitimately as his , added to the four thousand in he and Zoe 's joint account , there remained one hundred and seventy pounds . |
| 4 | The red one and a green one . |
| 5 | Compassion for the victims of this sick Tory society compassion for the millions of people who have no work compassion for the victims of racists and racisms compassion for the victims of the public service cuts , whether it be the miserable one and a half percent pay offers compulsory competitive tendering job cuts , low pay , the pensioners , the elderly , the sick , the child , the list is never ending . |
| 6 | In a statement issued in Bonn , he stressed ‘ the importance that Western countries lend to the continuation of the reform process that President Yeltsin has represented for the past one and a half years ’ . |
| 7 | Between them they expressed the opposing feelings so often displayed by young children in the peak age of attachment : on the one hand , the protest and fury about being left — cries of rage — and then a sullen refusal to acknowledge and come to the mother ; on the other hand , the desperate yearning for the loved one and a need to cling and not let go . |
| 8 | However at 2100 air attacks on the departing Fleet and convoy began and lasted for the next one and a half hours — torpedo-bombers attempted to attack down moon but were greeted by intense A.A. fire and were forced to turn away . |
| 9 | All around there is a buzz of nervous tension as everyone present prepares for the next one and a quarter hour 's worth of pure adrenalin flow . |