Example sentences of "four [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is that a four or a five ? |
| 2 | Four and a half years , he wrote . |
| 3 | After jointing and gluing ( be careful where you stop and start your tongues ) , two pieces can be cut off to finish at four and a half inches each . |
| 4 | For every four windows on a Mark 3 standard-class coach there are four and a h–f bays of seats , only the end bays matching the windows and succeeding bays being more tightly spaced so that some passengers are seated against a blank wall . |
| 5 | The Siberian crane stands four and a half feet tall , its brilliant white plumage offset by a blood-red beak , face and legs . |
| 6 | P&O European Ferries ( 0304 203388 ) has five sailings a day in each direction from Dover to Zeebrugge : crossing time four and a half hours . |
| 7 | Today no-one — with the possible exception of members of his family - seriously believes that Wallenberg is still alive somewhere in what is left of the Gulag Archipelago , four and a half years into perestroika . |
| 8 | The distribution speed of oral rumour was much quicker than that of newspapers , which from the guberniia capital of Voronezh' Shafir calculated to be one verst for every four and a half hours . |
| 9 | Maud Heath was a pedlar woman who lived on Wick Hill and walked four and a half miles , past Kellaways , to Chippenham each morning . |
| 10 | For four and a half centuries the village and manor have belonged to the Earls of Pembroke . |
| 11 | Instead , he was out first thing next morning for 110 and Gower declared at 300 for 9 , leaving West Indies to make 342 in four and a half hours and twenty overs . |
| 12 | ‘ Between the two of them , he owed between three and a half and four and a half thousand dollars , just for cocaine for that weekend . ’ |
| 13 | General Council 's action in support of the miners and wool textile workers signaled a turn in the tide , the beginning of a definite stand against the policy of wage reductions which economic conditions have enabled the employers to impose in the last four and a half years . |
| 14 | This seemed a race well beyond his stamina range , for the Grand National is over nearly four and a half miles and Crisp 's ideal distance was apparently no further than two and a half miles . |
| 15 | On one day in March 1969 , four and a half hours were spent on points of order and discussing the confidentiality of attendance records . |
| 16 | The critics argued that the space probes were a useless waste of money in words that were amazingly similar to those recorded against Columbus some four and a half centuries earlier . |
| 17 | The result is an evening of Wagnerian dimension spread over four and a half hours . |
| 18 | So on Saturday , Party Politics , dwarfing his 39 opponents , set off in new colours with new jockey Carl Llewellyn to see how many strides it would take him to cover the most famous four and a half miles in sport . |
| 19 | The effect of Christian Democrat hegemony for four and a half decades has been the perpetual incumbency of a small circle of politicians . |
| 20 | There are four and a half million people earning above average incomes and therefore potentially vulnerable to Labour 's tax squeeze . |
| 21 | Now a father with a boy aged four and a girl of two , he has , he says , been making professional sacrifices in order to avoid the mistakes made in his own upbringing . |
| 22 | Officers strutted in their brightest breacan-feiles ; the same length of a finer cloth , four and a half feet wide , held at the waist by a silver-buckled belt to fall double thickness , and the outside layer at the back drawn up over the left shoulder and pinned with a great silver brooch . |
| 23 | After about four and a half hours of driving , Sadler calculated that they were one mile away from the target , although there was absolutely nothing to see . |
| 24 | The time of proving himself was over ; John Cranko now held an official and important post in the Sadler 's Wells organization , only four and a half years after arriving in Britain as a student at the Sadler 's Wells school . |
| 25 | We had barely enough food for three months , let alone the four and a half it would take at fifteen miles a day . |
| 26 | One person informed us that he lost four and a half stone doing jury service : we considered sending on his letter to weight-watchers , so that the future courtroom might feature twelve fat men and true . |
| 27 | Once pressed , the hogsheads , each weighing four and a quarter hundred-weight , would be sold to the fish merchants for export , mainly to Italy and other Mediterranean countries . |
| 28 | Thanks to Mrs Castle 's Diary , we have some intelligence on Wilson Mark I. Elected in October 1964 , he had by early 1969 ( i.e. after four and a quarter years ) reached his 236th ad hoc group . |
| 29 | My five feet four and a half even on tiptoe could nowhere approximate his angle of vision . |
| 30 | The next four and a half years were a waking nightmare for the Keenans , especially for Brian 's sisters Brenda Gillham and Elaine Spence . |