Example sentences of "[adj] five and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children spend some five and a half hours a day in a classroom for 40 weeks a year . |
| 2 | The whole service has taken some five and a half hours in gale force winds and heavy seas . |
| 3 | Moreover , it is impossible to define what constitutes the ‘ appropriate ’ proportion of time which a 5-year-old , or a 7- or 11-year-old , should spend on task in a school day of some five and a half hours . |
| 4 | Thus PPB was adopted on a totally unrealistic time-scale of some five and a half months from the date of the original instructions . |
| 5 | My Lord , erm those are , those are my submissions my Lord , I was going to say something about my learned friends somewhat unusual request to your Lordship to make disparaging comments in judgment about the defendants case , my learned friend wishes to make disparaging comments we save a proper place for those in his submissions when he comes to apply to strike out , or say anything about that , erm , my Lord erm perhaps erm as a , as a final point , erm Mr Bernard after having reviewed a piano recital once wrote , the only thing he enjoyed more than this directive performance was having his teeth pulled , I think your Lordship has not found that the last five and a half days are equally an under defended experience in relation to , to this mornings sir activity |