Example sentences of "and a [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Join the heady decadence of Berlin 's Kit Kat Club , singing and dancing while Hitler 's profile rises on the city 's skyline , and a society heads inexorably towards extinction . |
| 2 | A National Unification Council ( NUC ) , chaired by Lee , and a Mainland Affairs Council ( MAC ) were established in October . |
| 3 | And a branch looks set to open next month . |
| 4 | And a branch looks set to open next month . |
| 5 | The principle of pollution trading was established in the Clean Air Act [ see ED no. 47 ] , and a pollution futures market is scheduled to be opened in Chicago in 1993 [ see ED no. 51 ] . |
| 6 | It is interesting to not that the values achieved in 1989 were broadly at about three times the turnover seen in these outlets , whereas today , a multiplier of approximately one , to one and a quarter times turnover , is far more appropriate . |
| 7 | They set something like 50,000 km of net a night , enough to go around the equator one and a quarter times . |
| 8 | For example , in a survey I carried out on the membership of the National Trust — one of the largest voluntary associations in Britain with over a million and a quarter members — it was decided that topics should include such things as how people came to join , how they felt about the payment of subscriptions , how much they read of the literature the Trust sent them , what their main interests in conservation were , how active a part they wanted to play in the work of the Trust , and so on . |
| 9 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 10 | amongst the other winners were Oxford Brookes University who won the Temple Cup by three and a quarter lengths … |
| 11 | As it happens , the problems of an unstaged Porgy are hardly less acute — a cast of 24 soloists and a duration of three and a quarter hours are not easily managed in the concert hall . |
| 12 | Needing to score quickly , West Indies made 176 at nearly five an over , despite some fine bowling from Snow , when Lloyd declared with five wickets down , setting England the task of surviving for five and a quarter hours or scoring 339 to win . |
| 13 | With a deficit of 552 and thirteen and a quarter hours left , obviously only the weather was going to save England , so there was not the least justification for the barrage of short balls that Holding and Roberts hurled at Edrich and Close . |
| 14 | At two and a quarter hours it will test the bladder control of the average child , and some scenes could and should have been shorter . |
| 15 | Hudson and Kuiper extended their stand for an hour until Kuiper , battling for form , was caught behind off Patrick Patterson for a laboured , but vital 34 spanning three and a quarter hours . |
| 16 | In June 1968 , at their first meeting , Ceauşescu shrewdly let a twenty minute courtesy call run on for a flattering two and a quarter hours . |
| 17 | The post-psychedelic light show ensures that the daytrippers are rooted to the floor as they sit through two and a quarter hours of swirling baby images , coloured cogs and kaleidoscope wheels . |
| 18 | I hate to say you should be American , because of course , no-one should , but this one single evening of Great British Music — Spiritualized , Curve , The Jesus And Mary Chain , in that fixed order — is three and a quarter hours that compounds and crystallises everything that is vibrant and clever and downright sex-mad- filthy about what squares call ‘ alternative ’ . |
| 19 | Over three and a quarter hours , in almost medically precise measures , about 800 Windy kids and myself are , by turn , massaged , soothed , picked up and shaken , sexually aroused and punched repeatedly about the face . |
| 20 | And then , occasionally , once in a blue moon , music gives us what we want , and we quite complaining … for about , say , three and a quarter hours . |
| 21 | The old wooden case-clock at the foot of the stairs where Ellie was standing chimed the hour , as if to tell her she had two hours to herself before the ‘ broth ’ returned , and three and a quarter hours before her father did likewise . |
| 22 | And four and a quarter hours later , when it actually was four , and the bedclothes both above and below were a mere conglomerate heap , and Tessa 's strapping behind had pushed right across the bed , and Bob was cold and stiff from head to foot , and had been neither asleep nor awake for a moment , it felt as though the solar system had finally run down and stopped , and closed off the ever-renewing spring of pure , fresh time for good and all . |
| 23 | She drew breath for the first time in three and a quarter hours . |
| 24 | As well as providing legislative protection , it underpins the collective agreement which provides for a basic shift of seven and a quarter hours plus winding time for underground workers and eight hours for surface workers . |
| 25 | Two and a quarter hours after setting out . |
| 26 | It read fifty one and a quarter pounds . |
| 27 | It 's cost a million and a quarter pounds to build but according to the pupils it 's worth every penny . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , I 'm still using the standard setup : five strings on the treble , five strings on the bass and a range of five and a quarter octaves . |
| 29 | Thus , Edison-type cylinders , two and a quarter inches in diameter , became the standard format . |
| 30 | The arrow , which has been repaired in the centre at some time , is twenty-five and a quarter inches long and weighs seven ounces . |