Example sentences of "[prep] one and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boots ( retail division ) may consider giving employees moving from low-cost to high-cost areas a loan of up to a maximum of one and a half times the employee 's expected first year 's gross salary . |
| 2 | This tape will achieve a satisfactory curtain fullness with a minimum of one and a half times the track length using a thick fabric , but double fullness is preferable , particularly with lightweight fabrics . |
| 3 | If it 's jewellery it 's harder , it will show up , erm if you 're marking things like engagements rings , then the best thing to do is actually take photographs of them with a ruler or some sort of erm comparison of the size of the item cos if you do like a a ring on a photograph it 's gon na , it 's gon na come out like a , so if you got a ruler to say , you know , it 's only sort of one and a half inches in width or whatever , then we can actually get a clear picture of , of that . |
| 4 | I always leave a minimum of one and a half hours so that if I have a blow-out or breakdown or some other unforeseen emergency , I still have time to take care of it and catch the plane . |
| 5 | An average of one and a half hours was spent with most families . |
| 6 | North estimates , for example , that if a company has 2,000 personal computers and it takes an average of one and a half hours per year to upgrade software on each of them , then company-wide , this activity takes a total 3,000 hours . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) While this section applies to any premises , the effect shall be that , for the purposes mentioned in subsection ( 3 ) below , the permitted hours in those premises in the afternoon shall be increased by the addition of one and a half hours at the end thereof . |
| 8 | Ordered , That , at the sitting on Wednesday 5th February , notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 14 ( Exempted business ) , the Motions in the name of Mr. Secretary Hunt relating to Local Government Finance ( Wales ) may be proceeded with , though opposed , until half-past Eleven o'clock or the end of a period of one and a half hours after the first of them has been entered upon , whichever is the later , at which time Mr. Speaker shall put the Question necessary to dispose of them ; and those Questions may be decided after the expiry of the time for opposed business . |
| 9 | The law includes a clause which allows a delay of one and a half years for its application for some users . |
| 10 | Therefore , for 600 rpm , the attitude change would be 3 half-bars , that is a change of one and a half bars down from the existing attitude . |
| 11 | Mix 150g/5oz chopped raspberries with one and a half tablespoons of natural fromage frais , three tablespoons of whipped double cream , three teaspoons of crème de cassis , one and a half teaspoons of golden caster sugar and one and a half tablespoons of chopped fresh mint . |
| 12 | All to be achieved within one and a half hours . |
| 13 | This fire officer , however , refused to allow the use of a sizeable proportion of the props , around which the entire show was structured ; and , although the Prince and Princess of Wales were arriving in one and a half hours ' time along with five Cabinet ministers , and the cast would have no time to rehearse without the props they relied upon , he was not to be budged . |
| 14 | East Shropshire Group raised £110 in one and a half hours selling products through the town 's local Amnesty shop . |
| 15 | The actual report is completed in one and a half hours under examination conditions . |
| 16 | An ‘ activity ’ might last any length of time from one and a half hours to ( say ) a sustained activity lasting , over a period , as much as ten hours . |
| 17 | After school , I had to get practise and it took about one and a half hours to get there . |
| 18 | Situated about one and a half hours from Avignon by car on the Route Nationale to Carpentras . |
| 19 | Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) : ‘ They should have two homeworks , about one and a half hours . ’ |
| 20 | Chandrasekhar calculated that a cold star of more than about one and a half times the mass of the sun would not be able to support itself against its own gravity . |
| 21 | Someone earning £490 a week , which is about one and a half times average male earnings , would pay an extra £9 per week in national insurance contributions if the upper earnings limit was abolished . |
| 22 | And for a penny you could have a thick slice of bread , about one and a half inches , loaded with dripping , so that was your meal at lunchtime , before you nipped back to do other jobs . |
| 23 | I suppose about one and a half yards , perhaps not that , square and in the corner there was what they called , what we had the copper for boiling the clothes , make it with small coal and , and coal and wood and paper and boil the water and , and my mother used to do the washing there and we had a big old mangle with wooden rollers out in the back yard , that was always out in the back yard . |
| 24 | Roll them in salt and bake for one and a half hours ( or until they ‘ give ’ when pressed ) in a moderately hot oven ( 190 ° , 375 ° F , Gas Mark 5 ) . |
| 25 | The school was a JMI school with over 400 pupils in ten classes , ten teachers plus a head teacher , a part-time secretary and a milk lady who came into school for one and a half hours a day to distribute milk . |
| 26 | Ordered , That , at the sitting on Tuesday 4th February , the Motions in the name of Mr Francis Maude relating to Supplementary Estimates 1991-92 and Estimates 1992-93 ( Vote on Account ) may be proceeded with , though opposed , until half-past Eleven o'clock or for one and a half hours after the first of them has been entered upon , whichever is the later , at which time Mr. Speaker shall put the Questions necessary to dispose of them . |
| 27 | There must be a meeting once every three or four weeks for one and a half hours . |
| 28 | He goes on to argue that the bourgeoisie have always used sections from within the ‘ dangerous classes ’ to control those who are overtly troublesome , perhaps following the maxim that ‘ it takes a thief to catch a thief ’ , when he argues : ‘ for one and a half centuries the bourgeoisie offered the following choices : you can go to prison or join the Army ; you can go to prison or go to the colonies ; you can go to prison or you can join the police ’ ( ibid. 23 ) . |
| 29 | When the judge called the jury back this afternoon they 'd been considering their verdict for one and a half days . |
| 30 | Then , a youngster who stole three cars would go to a young offenders institution for one and a half years . |