The phrase "a pair of badly" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete thought or a misphrasing, as "badly" typically requires a verb or context to convey meaning.
Example: "He played a pair of badly written songs at the open mic night."
Alternatives: "a couple of poorly" or "two badly".
Is there anything that comes to mind?" I said yes, sure, and mentioned his socks — cheap, pinkish-brown athletic socks from Sears, Roebuck that he commonly wore at home in the evening — or at dinner at my house — tucked into a pair of ancient and badly cracked patent-leather dance pumps.
"Slacking on Slacks," Maureen Dowd's June 11 column about the inability of men to divest themselves of some mellowed articles of apparel, reminds me of a pair of burned leather slippers, badly bruised in an apartment fire, that my husband brought to our marriage in 1955.
Apart from causing interference problems, the "2B1Q" algorithm used in America (and the "4B3T" line code used in Europe) to transmit digital signals along a pair of copper telephone lines stumbles badly over "bridge taps" where the wires get spliced.Better ways of doing thingsWe pointed out that there are better alternatives for delivering broadband over the last mile.
The next day a pair of Fulmars from 806 Squadron badly damaged a Ju 88 reconnaissance bomber that crash-landed at its base in Sicily.
A pair of black bears with paws badly burned in the Southern California wildfires received somewhat unusual care when they saw veterinarians from University of California, Davis.
Students began t?? adorn it with posters and scribbles; moreover, the wooden base, a pair of tractor treads, weathered the winter badly.
In a story so conventionally constructed that it suggests the help of fiction-writing software (yes, there is some), "Gods Behaving Badly" injects a pair of human lovebirds into the world of its downtrodden deities.
The remaining pair engaged a pair of torpedo-carrying SM.79s, damaging one badly enough that it crashed upon landing.
And I badly wanted a pair of glasses like the big specs Vale dons when she's doing serious work.
