Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] and [art] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	The property lies two and a half miles from Ravenstonedale , near the source of the Lune .
2	It had , however , collected eight and a half tons of khat , the mild narcotic leaf on which Djibouti feeds like caterpillars on cabbage .
3	Pat Sutton lifted 462 and a half kg — 157 and a half kg squat , 110kg bench , 195kg deadlift .
4	He pushed the vital button which blasted twelve and a half tons of rock at the ARC Quarry near Colwell , Northumberland .
5	This added two and a half miles to their journey to work and involved another 15 minutes ' travelling time each way .
6	Trainer Francois Boutin said he had no worries about Arazi staying one and a half miles .
7	After nearly an hour and a half at sea in gale force winds Falmouth lifeboat , under the command of Second Coxswain Alan Barnes , came up on the yacht , a 40ft steel ketch , which was drifting two and a half miles south west of The Lizard Light .
8	Maud Heath was a pedlar woman who lived on Wick Hill and walked four and a half miles , past Kellaways , to Chippenham each morning .
9	Inset left Sam on her tractor-mower : ‘ Three sheep do n't eat enough grass to keep six and a half acres looking tidy ’
10	Mr Patrick Fitzgibbon , who lives in Steeple Aston , said he was deeply concerned that the pilot ejected one and a half miles from the crash site .
11	He spent 12 months of completing the work using four and a half gallons of paint stripper before repainting .
12	A post-mortem revealed she had one and a half litres of blood in her right lung , which had almost completely collapsed .
13	Christopher Picton , 34 , of Avon Way , Colchester , Essex , became trapped as the reels , weighing two and a half tons , were being loaded on to a lorry .
14	Over the past 60 years these villages have developed into an area of suburbia covering four and a half miles to the west of the city of Hull .

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