Example sentences of "[adj] and [art] [adv] [noun] [prep] " 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 | The Oxford Canal , for example , was shortened by thirteen and a half miles between 1829 and 1834 . |
| 4 | It had , however , collected eight and a half tons of khat , the mild narcotic leaf on which Djibouti feeds like caterpillars on cabbage . |
| 5 | X 19 ins. , two inches thick , with a hole in the middle about three and a half inches in diameter . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The logical place to begin on the Basque Coast is Bayonne , which is a port , but three and a half miles from the open sea down the navigable channel of the river Adour . |
| 8 | The hunt recently fenced off 6 and a half miles of the M40 to stop foxes getting onto it . |
| 9 | The hunt recently fenced off 6 and a half miles of the M40 to stop foxes getting onto it . |
| 10 | The start of the text is clearly signalled by a rubric about five and a half inches from the top edge of the roll : " " Hic incipit interludium de clerico et puella " " , " Here begins the interlude of the clerk and the girl " . |
| 11 | The course should be five and a half miles as the crow flies . |
| 12 | The race was created 21 years ago when a psychologist , propping up the Gannochy bar , laid a £1 bet that no member of the University ‘ could , without mechanical assistance , do the return trip of five and a half miles from the Gannochy to the top of Dumyat [ 418metres ] in less than an hour . ’ |
| 13 | He pushed the vital button which blasted twelve and a half tons of rock at the ARC Quarry near Colwell , Northumberland . |
| 14 | ‘ Four thousand revs will give you 90 mph in the Formula First , ’ he said , ‘ and in a car which is one and a half inches off the ground , that will feel like 190 mph , so it should be plenty fast enough for today . ’ |
| 15 | Cones tend to come in two shapes — some , either cardboard or plastic , with a pointed top and others with a gap of about one to one and a half inches at the top . |
| 16 | They were about an inch to one and a half inches in thickness and nearly two feet square . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | One and a half tons of prime Canadian Hereford and the pride of the Lowerhope herd . |
| 19 | Ted acted quickly and in time a deal was concluded and he became the owner of one and a half acres of grassland . |
| 20 | Next to his acreage was a small field of one and a half acres with a little mound in it . |
| 21 | A post-mortem revealed she had one and a half litres of blood in her right lung , which had almost completely collapsed . |
| 22 | Unlike Piggott , Hannon is convinced Geisway will stay the one and a half miles at Epsom . |
| 23 | Mr Patrick Fitzgibbon , who lives in Steeple Aston , said he was deeply concerned that the pilot ejected one and a half miles from the crash site . |
| 24 | The church authorities decided to play safe and built its replacement at Rimswell , one and a half miles from the sea , the sturdy , unpretentious but pleasing little church of St Mary . |
| 25 | The location of the box was remote , about one and a half miles from the village , but the line was busy and the box controlled the junction , so any signalman had to have his wits about him . |
| 26 | This is a pleasant modern hotel , situated about one and a half miles from the old village of Ovindoli . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Two and a half tons of fish taken in last year 's event . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It consists of an upright cylinder containing a twelve-inch piston with rod two and a half inches in diameter . |