Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [conj] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stands in its own grounds of approximately one and a half acres and from its elevated position has spectacular views . |
| 2 | By the end of July an advance of about two and a half miles had been made on a front which at this depth did not exceed two miles . ’ |
| 3 | A gain of 400 in the first amplifier/filter will then produce an output of almost two and a half volts from the total earth 's field vector , avoiding overload and permitting a peak-to-peak measurement by rotating the core . |
| 4 | The second is that from the Cherwell boathouse to the point where the tragedy occurred is a distance of over two and a half miles , including a strenuous portage , and took us nearly an hour . |
| 5 | Lowthorpe is a small elongated village , situated five miles northeast of Driffield , which stretches southwards for nearly three and a half miles across the plain of Holderness . |
| 6 | Many cases of resistance depend on only one or a very few genes . |
| 7 | BNFL 's investment in West cumbria — including spending on plant at Sellafield — amounted to around one and a half millions pounds a day , every day , for the last 10 years , Sir Christopher Harding told guests at a dinner of the Cumbria Society . |
| 8 | The suedehead had hair at least one and a half inches long . |
| 9 | Startled , and by now more than a little frightened , Patrick headed for Foyles , hoping to lose his followers in the bookshop 's maze of nooks and corners . |
| 10 | The 1981 Census was estimated to have been under-counted by about half a per cent ( around two hundred thousand people ) in England and Wales as a whole and by about two and a half per cent in Inner London ( about fifty five thousand people ) . |