Example sentences of "[noun] [num] and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 He died suddenly of another massive stroke three and a half years after his original illness .
2 That memorable Champion Chase clash with Remittance Man saw Katabatic beaten a length , with Waterloo Boy three and a half lengths back in third .
3 I came to England 3 and a half months ago and this is my happiest day since then .
4 artwork one and a half times the size which it will be reproduced .
5 Mike Cooke took up the sport two and a half years ago .
6 It is going to be nine and a half times the footprint of Hambleton three and a half times the footprint of Brayton Bath it will tower in its mass beside them and it is totally unreasonable and wrong for anybody to describe it as merely of local concern .
7 In all its major value for money three and a half hours and 50 tracks , ‘ …
8 Montaine 's suicide had taken place two and a half years ago .
9 Aha That 's right , it would be somebody of one rung down perhaps from and half a rung down from if you can put that in context I mean is an absolute beginner she knew nothing about this business two and a half years ago
10 He pointed to experiments in the process two and a half centuries before ( and could , in fact , have gone back to the fifteenth century ) .
11 I 've gained a great deal of experience these psst two and a half years and I think I could manage a stud farm quite easily now .
12 On one occasion he nearly saw the man killed : ‘ The rope , sixty-five yards long , on his being drawn up , having a knot in the middle , was arrested by a clint ( crack ) in the rock , to which , with an eaglet sixteen and a half pounds weight , tied to his back , he had no other resource than that of ascending by his hands , the space something overhanging from the nest to the crack …
13 According to the managers five and a half days in this area .
14 We 've been humping away for a whole two and a half pages .
15 I remind the hon. Gentleman that we are spending on training and enterprise two and a half times as much in real terms as the last Labour Government .
16 There was a lot more professionalism to his jumping as , travelling strongly throughout , the top weight only had to be shaken up after the last to beat previous winner Wellknown Character two and a half lengths .
17 ‘ We believe that the British Government must do more to oppose the job discrimination that has created unemployment levels two and a half times higher for Catholic workers than Protestant workers .
18 Yet the two earliest recordings of the movement , by the celebrated disciples Willem Mengelberg ( 1926 ) and Bruno Walter ( 1938 ) , average seven and a half minutes ' duration .
19 For she 'd literally been shaken to her roots when the clothing firm she 'd worked for for the past six and a half years had collapsed , making the entire work-force redundant .
20 The contract gave Stan three and a half years based in Edinburgh with carte blanche to roam about collecting fossils .
21 ‘ I had a cartilage operation three and a half years ago , and I went in for a tackle just before Christmas and damaged it again .
22 There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters .
23 AS YOU might expect of a nation that has devoted the past three and a half centuries to failed attempts at independence , Ukrainian leaders have a propensity for messing things up when it matters most .
24 The princess has been calling on the skills of an astrologer in the region for the past three and a half years .
25 For the past 11 and a half years , Michelle Howard has been paralysed from the chest down ; the result , she claims , of a routine jaw operation she underwent at Poole General Hospital in 1982 .
26 I spent the past nine and a half years doing everything I can to keep everything about my daughter secret .
27 She is 24 and has been in prison or special hospital for the past five and a half years .
28 ‘ One of the things that struck me as an outsider , coming into the firm two and a half years ago , was that there was no accountability , ’ recalls Mel Smaje .
29 Experience in the past two and a half years has shown both the general effectiveness of such schemes and the need for a much wider extension of them .
30 Fund raising for the £130,000 project had , said Mr. Kirby ‘ been an up-hill struggle ’ over the past two and a half years , but the end was now in sight .
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