Example sentences of "a [adj] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , not very many of their sculptural portraits have survived ( only a few over a hundred for the three centuries after Alexander ) , partly because they were often made of bronze which was readily melted down for re-use . |
| 2 | Twelve and a half per cent 's going to be twelve and a half over a hundred , er , oh , well , we 're going to cancel , but first of all we could go the opposite way , and multiply , just to get rid of this fraction . |
| 3 | Banbury had a completely new suburb significantly called Newland added to the older town between 1250 and 1285 , only a little over a hundred years after it had been first founded , a mark of its success , while Eynsham , also in Oxfordshire , has a neat rectangular block of properties , bisected by Newland Street which dates from 1215 when a charter was acquired for an extension . |
| 4 | If he had put a second £100 into the FT-SE index each time he bought from the state , the resulting shares would now be worth only a little over a third more than he paid . |
| 5 | Do you want to borrow , well it 's on two tapes , well I 've still got it on the tapes if you want it , it 's quite a good quite a good film |
| 6 | which is again , er I dun , one of the guys at work , another guy at work come which is quite a , well it 's near Guildford , Primchet , which is quite a good quite a good |
| 7 | Where " events " last several days , the level of activity can vary from day to day , sometimes in a predictable sometimes an unpredictable fashion . |
| 8 | A fourth exactly a fourth . |
| 9 | You pot a red then a yellow then another red then a green … and so on . |
| 10 | At the departmental level we might have ten a hundred possibly a thousand users but when we go enterprise-wide there may be thousands or many tens of thousands of users . |