The phrase "a mate of a" is not standard in written English and may sound awkward or incomplete.
It could be used in informal contexts, but it generally requires additional context to clarify its meaning.
Example: "He is a mate of a friend of mine who lives in London."
Alternatives: "a friend of a" or "a companion of a".
And absolutely not a mate of a mate who offers to drive.
"It does seem emblematic of a trend -- people who wouldn't consider a mate of a different political persuasion," Mr. McDonald said.
It's pretty hard to get down there now, but by a few deft strokes of magical luck, during my last visit to Beijing I got put in touch with a mate of a mate of a person who knew a guy who heard a story of a bloke with a mate who had an access point down into the tunnels built incongruously into the back room of his small house in the centre of the Hutong district of town.
According to the model of optimal outbreeding, females should choose a mate of a certain genetic distance to balance negative effects of inbreeding and outbreeding [ 31, 33, 34].
'Pop up' advertisements for Tooheys New appeared during Game One with the text: " A mid-game fridge run turns a mate of a mate into a mate".
You think very hard about getting a tattoo simply because a mate-of-a-mate is a trainee and he reckons he can do you one for £30 all-in.
This makes it possible to test whether markers belong to the same linkage groups by using backcross progeny from a mating of an F1 female and a homozygous parental male (termed "BF1").
P aa) will be equal to either 0.25, for a mating of two carriers, 0.5, for a mating of an affected animal with a carrier, or 1, for a mating of two affected animals.
The project involves sequencing of exon-enriched DNA from first-generation offspring (F1) produced from a mating of an ENU-mutagenised male with a wild-type female and then identification of induced mutations using a modified version of the 1000 Genomes Project variant-calling pipeline (Abecasis et al., 2010).
A mate of A$AP Rocky and Pharrell Williams, Moore also starred in the Sundance 2015 hit film Dope and is releasing his debut album next year.
