Imagine a language with plurals and singulars, but little or no congruence. Further, imagine that for some common adjectives - small, big, adjectives denoting membership in local tribes, tall, short, wide, - have forms that include coding for plurals, paucals, indefinites, nullar number, etc - some formed by some regular process, although many being formed by suppletion or by morphemes unique to one or two words. Not all of these adjectives have all of these forms.
Further, those among these that code for a non-singular meaning block the plural marking on the noun. However, if multiple adjectives of this kind are part of the same phrase, they all take the corresponding form - to the extent that they all do have corresponding forms.
As complements they do showcase congruence, however.
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