Example sentences of "an [noun sg] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is both an advantage and a disadvantage of committee decisions ; |
| 2 | Earlier this week the house , known as the Boynes , was firebombed causing damge to an outbuilding and a garage . |
| 3 | For that reason alone , according to sources here , Mr Ortega 's summit game plan could come to naught , leaving the Sandinistas to fight an election and a war , and the peace process close to collapse . |
| 4 | Many of the key words of Derrida 's arguments are similarly polysemic and their polysemy is essential to his argument : his reading of Rousseau in Of Grammatology , for example , turns on the ambiguity of the word supplément which can mean both an addition and a substitute . |
| 5 | Small to medium ground-living birds , mostly with sober plumage , sexes alike , and moderately thin bills adapted to both an insect and a seed diet . |
| 6 | You will need an ink-pad and a piece of paper for each Brownie . |
| 7 | For a raw young MP to be confronted by Sage Bernal was an experience and a half . |
| 8 | The common use of man or mankind does also hide the fact that women have an experience and a history of their own . |
| 9 | The epimeron is also sometimes divided into two sclerites by a transverse suture , giving an anepimeron and a katepimeron . |
| 10 | By superimposing on these techniques an ideology and a practice of self-expression , Cream 's music seems to establish a dialectical relationship between the two , articulating each via the other into a new position — a position , perhaps , of ‘ fraternal individualism ’ |
| 11 | THEY had a homosexual , a nymphomaniac , an alcoholic and a Cockney crook — but they did n't reckon for a serial killer . |
| 12 | It is found , however , on some figures in an Amazonomachy and a Centauromachy on a big volute-krater ( fig. 109 ) by a less talented companion of the Niobid Painter known as the Painter of the Woolly Satyrs , in whose work too it is abnormal . |
| 13 | We have listened to the Secretary of State speak for an hour and a minute , and during those 61 minutes never once did he utter a word about the central feature of the Bill — the doctrinaire destruction of Her Majesty 's inspectorate of schools and the privatisation of the national and local schools inspectorates . |
| 14 | An hour and a bit later the hearse stopped in a town called Cromcruach . |
| 15 | Most classes last for an hour or perhaps an hour and a half . |
| 16 | He was killed about an hour and a half ago during a German counter attack on our positions . |
| 17 | The sortie has taken something over four hours to complete , for a little over an hour and a half in the air . |
| 18 | An hour and a half later , Jakki had a great interview in the can . |
| 19 | Within an hour and a half , the Exxon Valdez had eluded the coastguard radar tracking system and plunged at full speed on to the rocks of Bligh Reef , rupturing eight cargo holds , each big enough to house a 15-storey building . |
| 20 | As on every other Saturday morning , the inhabitants of Little Saigon in Orange county will crowd around their televisions to watch an hour and a half of Vietnamese programmes . |
| 21 | Stewart stayed with him for about an hour and a half and Lamb hung around for a while , but Smith was his main ally and , as the day ebbed away , it seemed as though only the new ball stood between England and a draw . |
| 22 | And so they sat with clammy hands for an hour and a half and let go only when the lights came back on . |
| 23 | I was on to the exchange for your name and number as soon as the news came through , but it took me an hour and a half to bully someone into looking up where the phone-box was . |
| 24 | I do not ever recall being quite as sick and shaken as I was then , about an hour and a half ago . |
| 25 | Among those who glibly encouraged the notion was J B Priestley , who wrote of football turning its fans into ‘ a new community , all brothers together for an hour and a half … an altogether more splendid kind of life ’ . |
| 26 | Railway : The train to Salzburg takes an hour and a half and costs approx AS 270 ; alternatively Innsbruck takes two hours and costs approx AS 370 . |
| 27 | He had been there for an hour and a half . |
| 28 | She went for an hour and a half to give him a hot cooked dinner , which she had prepared in the morning , and to wash up afterwards . |
| 29 | Back in his small room , Sandison lay down on the bed and slept for about an hour and a half . |
| 30 | It must have been an hour and a half at least before we managed to get the thing out of the water . |