Example sentences of "[verb] two and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The London gold price rose two and a half times between early 1972 and the middle of 1973 . |
| 2 | So by the end of the day , I was like , look I 've come all this way , which was n't totally true , but I said , look I 've come all this way , the bloke arranged that he would meet us at this time , and he 's not here , and like , you know , I 've come two and a half hours in the car , and I 've got ta drive home again , and we were gon na have a look at the house . |
| 3 | Davies , 30 , who has two and a half years of his contract to run , is understood to be disillusioned and keen to quit the professional game . |
| 4 | They reached thirteen nine , cos they 'd two and a half times amount of play . |
| 5 | If I did n't have so long to travel I 'd do two and a half hours . |
| 6 | Because it costs two and a half times as much to collect as the money that is received . |
| 7 | He showed the notarised notebooks of April 1986 demonstrating the range of materials , including not just palladium but several other metals , that was being used two and a half years before they learned of the work by Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 8 | A selection of pre-1700 books fetched two and a half times its valuation ; a sale of duplicate art portfolios and fine printing had the ‘ big boys ’ from London falling over each other … |
| 9 | You 've Milvia 's left you and awful time cos she talked for so long , you 've got two and a half minutes . |
| 10 | Japan invests two and a half times per head more than the UK . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought I 'd done well by managing to last two and a half minutes without coming up for air he said . ’ |
| 12 | Irish Memory finished two and a half lengths away third — a cracking good run considering he was responsible , with Bold Pursuit , for the fast early gallop which produced a race time only 0.09sec slower than standard . |
| 13 | EC ministers have agreed on measures to reduce water pollution by nitrates from chemical and natural fertilizers after a debate lasting two and a half years . |
| 14 | ‘ The flats were flooded two and a half years ago and we were promised that it would never happen again . ’ |
| 15 | It takes two and a half hours each way . |
| 16 | Travel takes two and a half hours each way . |
| 17 | The operation , which normally takes two and a half hours , lasted twice as long , allowing the surgeons and systems engineers to mix the robot technology with traditional procedures . |
| 18 | The crossing takes two and a half hours , so she 'll dock at three English time . |
| 19 | Before the exhibition opened on Monday , 11 March last , Mr Isherwood , ARPS , APAGB , an official appointed by the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain , spent two and a half hours in Chapman Gallery carefully weighing and considering before he settled on the winners . |
| 20 | His emissary , Menshikov , spent two and a half months at the Turkish capital and succeeded in reversing the Turks ' decision on the Holy Places . |
| 21 | Capriati spent two and a half years under the tutelage . |
| 22 | Ian Yarlott , business unit manager for Intuit 's UK arm , claims that the company spent two and a half years making sure it would be a genuine British product rather than a hastily localized version of the US product . |
| 23 | I spent two and a half years working with a single comprehensive school looking at the change in that school from a system of streamed teaching to a system of mixed ability teaching . |
| 24 | I spent two and a half years working with a single comprehensive school , looking at the change in that school from a system of streamed teaching to a system of mixed ability teaching . |
| 25 | Such comments come a bit rich from the Opposition , when they have opposed each and every training initiative that we have introduced during the past 12 years and when we are spending two and a half times as much in real terms as the Labour Government did . |
| 26 | We are spending two and a half times as much , after taking account of inflation , as was spent by the last Labour Government on training . |
| 27 | I remind them that we are spending two and a half times as much on training and enterprise as they did . |
| 28 | Banks which are strong in areas that typically produce long-standing relationships with customers sell at even higher multiples to book : investors pay two and a half times book value for Boston 's State Street and Chicago 's Northern Trust , for example , which specialise in trust services and asset management . |
| 29 | By 10.30 he had gone down the full length of the corridor that ran past his office and he had then spent two and a half hours in H3 's laboratory . |
| 30 | Over the same distance , people use two and a half times more energy ( per kilogram of their bulk ) than the average camel . |