Example sentences of "a half [num] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tarvaras was just over twelve and a half thousand kilometres in diameter and the Simonova was orbiting approximately thirty-six thousand kilometres above the surface . |
| 2 | Mr Taylor 's considering his future — dividing his time between replying to three and a half thousand letters of support and nursing his mother , who , he revealed today , has suffered a stroke . |
| 3 | Planning has had some two and a half thousand letters of objection to it . |
| 4 | In that time they carried two and a half thousand tonnes of food and medical supplies saving countless lives . |
| 5 | My Lord the er case moves on there over the page now to the twenty fourth of September and on that day Mr was notified erm by his bank on the telephone that head office had approved the finance proposal in principal and as a result of that Mr then telephone Peter , the defendant , told him that the financing for this deal had been approved in principal and Mr asked Mr to provide a bankers draft of some seven and a half thousand pounds in order to enable exchange to take place as a matter of urgency . |
| 6 | The men stole four and a half thousand pounds in cash before escaping in a stolen car . |
| 7 | At one time there were two and a half thousand Iranians in town . |
| 8 | It 's home to the vast fish plants which process two and a half million tons of fishmeal every year … to be sold as animal feed . |
| 9 | structural benefits that we do have this backlog twenty six and a half million pounds of work . |
| 10 | So in net terms we can have maximum , we wo n't go to this in the current till next year , erm two and a half million pounds of growth . |
| 11 | A writer who was ordered to pay two and a half million pounds in libel damages and costs , has uncovered new material which he claims casts doubt over the judgement . |
| 12 | From the two and a half million prints on file those of Mathew Bryce appeared on the screen . |
| 13 | It is the chief active ingredient in vinegar but the world 's consumption of about two and a half million tonnes per year is used for more than sprinkling on fish and chips . |
| 14 | And the market the market size really for in year one is two and a half percent which is fourteen and a half million litres of water . |
| 15 | The shock figure of two and a half million households in debt has been reached by the independent Policy Studies Institute . |
| 16 | In the Gomel'sk workshops in Belorussia 450 railway staff collected one and a half million roubles in order to start up their own social insurance scheme for lack of an adequate state system . |
| 17 | The RSPB , as part of its ‘ Campaign for the Countryside ’ , has recently called for two and a half million acres of farmland to be taken out of production and converted to wildlife habitats , a process to be paid for by money diverted from CAP into conservation . |