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| 5 | Of a planned 2,266 a total of 1,581 Cuban troops had been withdrawn during January , bringing to 31,138 the number withdrawn since January 1989 .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 ? |