Example sentences of "not a [adj] [num] " in BNC.

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1 I have n't though , cos , I mean when he gets to those he 's not a normal twenty two year old , he 's way beyond oh yeah , twenty two , but
2 The health of an eight year old diabetic child must , for example , be judged by reference to the standard one might reasonably expect of a child of that age with diabetes and not a healthy eight year old .
3 what , not a five hundred or something ?
4 Wycliffe turned to the reports where the only item of interest was negative : not a single .32 pistol among the licensed hand guns in the register .
5 Its print run is not a few thousand — but 54,000 !
6 Not a bad three weeks ' detecting but , more important , it was a helpful exercise in improving relationships between the archaeological societies and , hopefully , all metal detectorists .
7 Not a bad three days ' work all in all .
8 He fetched it in and he bunged it down and I said that 's not a twenty two , he said it is , so when he 'd gone it were only nineteen so I rung him up I says hey
9 It was n't a nice ten minutes , all the consoling thoughts I 'd scraped together during the night ran away and I was left alone .
10 This is n't a simple two stage one like the other one .
11 It certainly was n't a wasted six-and-a-half years . ’
12 Well there is n't a different one darling .
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