Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The suspicion that a two tier urban policy has developed , high profile symbolic initiatives for the Black poor and a particular ( American ) model of urban regeneration for the decayed white heartlands , is not readily dismissed . |
| 2 | for the first nineteen and a half minutes . |
| 3 | For the first two and a half years of his life he was in and out of hospital until they found the right medication . |
| 4 | When they first interviewed Sykes , on Monday this is , he told them he was staying at a cottage in the Lake District entirely on his own for the first two and a half weeks in September . |
| 5 | The Conservatives were to rule for thirteen years , with Churchill as Prime Minister for the first three and a half . |
| 6 | These mountains fall to the east to the flat expanse of the plateau , where San'a , the ancient capital , rests : my home for the following two and a half years . |
| 7 | S A Wahid , the owner for the last four and a half years , has asked publishers to cancel all dues and catalogues . |
| 8 | or or did erm for the last five and a half six years . |
| 9 | The General Secretary mentions some of them in his Report , and I do not apologize for mentioning it again , they 're fighting back at Timex , they 're fighting back at Burnsall , in my own region at Crawley we 've twenty members who 've been on strike for the last sixteen and a half weeks . |
| 10 | The current campaign positioning for Johnnie Walker Black has remained true to itself for the last two and a half decades . |
| 11 | and they can put that on the recorder but I 've been told for the last two and a half years by this government that I am not unemployed . |
| 12 | Mr Nick Bassett , aged 29 , has been manager of Northern Goldsmiths , in Blackwellgate , for the last two and a half years . |
| 13 | I think these proposals not only are a way forward but also in light of what is actually happening in the area of Highfields with er the high numbers of unemployment , with the high rate of people underachieving in education I think for the last two and a half years there has been no clear guidelines or structure that has systematically brought about any results in the two centres to move forward where people have lost out by this issue being bureaucratic and a political football that 's being kicked about and I think it 's about time where we now have cross party consensus that we move positively forward and work towards these proposals . |
| 14 | I mean I 've never needed a new licence for the last three and a half years but Nicholas erm prior to this in the countdown to me appearing for my drink drive which is in a matter of about ten weeks I believe in the countdown to that , Nick said on several o two occasions anyway while other members of staff were present , Well this is a way of getting rid of him without having to pay him redundancy money . |
| 15 | For the next four and a half years , Ali 's hands were tied day and night . |
| 16 | Polythene was virtually forgotten for the next two and a half years . |
| 17 | He declined to comment on a looming trade war between the US and the European Community , stressing that such problems had to be dealt with by Bush , who Clinton insists is the US 's only president for the next two and a half months . |
| 18 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 19 | You see , I suddenly felt that I could n't bear it , not knowing where they were going to be for the next three and a half weeks ( though in retrospect I doubt whether the location of the groom much perturbed me ) . |
| 20 | During the next three and a half years I often thought of this meal and of the amount I had to leave on my plate because I could not eat any more . |
| 21 | In addition to the Sadducees , Pharisees and Essenes , Judaism , in Jesus 's time , included a number of smaller , less well-known splinter-groups and sects , two of which have begun to figure increasingly in biblical scholarship during the last two and a half decades . |
| 22 | In that log book , which he showed me later , was the name , port and country of origin , of every ship that had passed through during the last eight and a half years , together with her age and condition , her destination , and of course the name of the captain and details of the cargo . |
| 23 | The contrast between the ethical socialist and a Marxist approach could not be more dramatic . |
| 24 | But Pinsent was the first to concede after the comprehensive three and a half lengths reverse : ‘ The best team won . |
| 25 | Then the balloons were off rising above Herefordshire to eleven and a half thousand feet instead of the planned ten and a half thousand . |
| 26 | The vast majority of the estimated two and a half million employees covered by the Wage Council work in the retail hot retail , hotel and catering , and textile industries . |
| 27 | An institution was any establishment provided by the Council for reception and maintenance of the poor other than a hospital , a children 's home or a separate casual ward . |
| 28 | He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust . |
| 29 | In the saddle Simon Goodman , the man who 's spent every waking hour of the last 2 and a half years creating a machine to recapture the excitement of classic British motorcycling . |
| 30 | The motor age had arrived and by the end of the 1950s one and a quarter million new vehicles were being registered every year . |