Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [adv] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its large terraced gardens formed but a part of six and a half acres of land enclosed on three sides by high walls and locked gates . |
| 2 | Set in complete seclusion in thirteen and a half acres of landscaped gardens and fields and surrounded by woodland , Mizzards is an exceptionally attractive 16th-century farmhouse built of brick and stone . |
| 3 | It had , however , collected eight and a half tons of khat , the mild narcotic leaf on which Djibouti feeds like caterpillars on cabbage . |
| 4 | The hunt recently fenced off 6 and a half miles of the M40 to stop foxes getting onto it . |
| 5 | The hunt recently fenced off 6 and a half miles of the M40 to stop foxes getting onto it . |
| 6 | He pushed the vital button which blasted twelve and a half tons of rock at the ARC Quarry near Colwell , Northumberland . |
| 7 | As the maximum extraction of grape juice or must was also set at one litre of juice per one and a half kilograms of grapes , this production limit could also be expressed as 7,500 kilograms per hectare . |
| 8 | One and a half tons of prime Canadian Hereford and the pride of the Lowerhope herd . |
| 9 | Ted acted quickly and in time a deal was concluded and he became the owner of one and a half acres of grassland . |
| 10 | A post-mortem revealed she had one and a half litres of blood in her right lung , which had almost completely collapsed . |
| 11 | Two and a half tons of fish taken in last year 's event . |
| 12 | The Basingstoke Canal at Claycart had around three inches of ice which led to the cancellation of the HBCAA Open and there was two and a half inches of ice on the Oxford Canal which led to the scrapping of the Banbury Open . |
| 13 | There are just two and a half kilometres of railway in Lesotho . |
| 14 | Here , you 'll be able to enjoy the benefits of Malia 's two and a half miles of sandy beach with its range of watersports , beach bars and main street of swinging nightlife . |
| 15 | Along the shore , two and a half miles of golden sands slip slowly into a warm , blue sea where visitors can swim , sail and wind-surf . |
| 16 | Consisting of two and a half acres of glass , two acres of stainless steel cladding and 1,000 tonnes of steel work , the 400 metre long single span terminal roof covers a four level international passenger handling complex . |
| 17 | Just under two and a half acres of land untouched for centuries is at stake . |
| 18 | In another part of Oxford Circus , a station where three lines converge , where there are fourteen escalators , four and a half miles of passages and platforms and through which nearly 200,000 passengers pass each day , a man was taking photographs . |
| 19 | He spent 12 months of completing the work using four and a half gallons of paint stripper before repainting . |
| 20 | New pits were sunk at Dare ( 1870 ) and Bwllfa ( 1877 ) : by 1900 the four collieries of the Ocean Company were producing over a million and a half tons of coal annually , and many other pits had also been sunk profitably . |