| In 1993 the way that Stonehenge was presented to the public was called 'a national disgrace' by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee. |
| Technically, Aristotelian science is a search for definitions, where a definition is 'a phrase signifying a thing's essence. |
| Hy'se 'a been so long, old Davy, afore 'a come to see poor bardie? |
| Anti-abortionists use 'emotive' language but one wonders, what is 'a woman's right to choose' if not emotive? |
| You'd 'a thought no mortal men could 'a kept 'em in that blind hole of a place. |
| The phrase 'a quarter of a million' glinted and flashed in the circumambient air. |
