Example sentences of "[noun] two [conj] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike Cooke took up the sport two and a half years ago . |
| 2 | Montaine 's suicide had taken place two and a half years ago . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | He pointed to experiments in the process two and a half centuries before ( and could , in fact , have gone back to the fifteenth century ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We are not sure whether Jasper Lyon is an elderly gentleman reminiscing about World War Two or a young man who just had a bee in his bonnet as a schoolboy about flying a Stirling bomber rather than becoming a Spitfire pilot . |
| 7 | We 've been humping away for a whole two and a half pages . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | We also have concerns about how it could erm fit in to er the countryside erm of the area er with particular reference to erm paragraph thirty three of P P G three which states that erm the net effect of any new settlement will be to enhance the environmental cause only modest environmental impact , the area in Hambledon , as Mr Wincup outlined yesterday erm is occupied essentially by the vale of York , it 's an essentially flat and rolling landscape , er the intensification of agriculture 's produced a very open landscape erm in that area erm there are few erm landscape elements to reduce into visibility , erm there are no significant areas of derelict land which could be , which would be reclaimed or enhanced erm by a new settlement , erm and the Council believes that it would be very difficult to assimilate a new settlement into this landscape , and it would be er visible over extensive areas , to touch on erm the point raised by erm the panel about self sufficiency and self containment erm I think it 's recognized in the explanatory memorandum , erm to policy H two that a new settlement will need to maintain social and economic links with a city , erm perhaps from some , this statement is explicit that erm York will continue to exert considerable influence in terms of employment , social , and community links , erm and it 's unlikely that facilities which have provided a new settlement will divert much , if an , if er any , erm of this er demand for travel . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I take this opportunity to pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for all the work that he has done in the past two and a half years to improve the future and administration of Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | She has been a member of the Finance Committee for the past two and a half years and has taken a great interest in the Society 's financial affairs . |
| 17 | However , it has surely been to the mutual advantage of the people of Scotland and England that we have had that union for the past two and a half centuries . |
| 18 | An exhibition including the Irises and six other Impressionist works has travelled round the capital cities of Austrlia over the past two and a half months , ending in Perth . |
| 19 | Back on board , we advanced our watches two and a half hours to Central Standard Time . |
| 20 | Mr Heneaghan said one of the reasons behind the move to raise new capital was because the board could see PCI , which now has monthly billings of $2 million against $30,000 two and a half years ago , doubling in size this year . |
| 21 | Two days later seventeen Highland officers , held prisoner at Culloden House ( where the Prince slept the night before the battle ) , were murdered : Cumberland lost five hundred men : the Jacobites two and a half times as many . |
| 22 | Mr Joe Mukwala , aged 32 , was sent to the Cummins engineering plant on the Yarm Road Industrial Estate by the African National Congress two and a half years ago . |
| 23 | Famous for its marketing campaign that guaranteed bug-free software — if you found a bug you could claim a VW Beetle from the company — Ready Systems embarked on an ambitious project two and a half years ago to build a completely new tool suite . |
| 24 | Our advertising budget two and a half percent of the market the first year . |
| 25 | A small group er from my own parish went to India two and a half years ago to visit our missionary partner . |
| 26 | When I started in the Preliminary Training School two and a half years ago my aunt had passed Little Ben on to me and had my name engraved beneath hers and grandfather 's on the back . |
| 27 | A two and a half hour flight from Heathrow or Gatwick will take you to Faro and from there it is just a brief drive to one of Europe 's best established resorts : Vale do Lobo , a 1,000-acre estate with outstanding sporting and recreational facilities . |
| 28 | BRITAIN 'S Samantha Purvis finished fifth in the consolation final of the women 's 200 metres butterfly in a time two and a half seconds slower than her British record . |