Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [num] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifteen and a half Er well no I was nineteen and a half then you see , five years is n't it . |
| 2 | ‘ After my father died , when I was five and a half , she used to make me bath myself all alone . |
| 3 | " I was 11 and a half stone ( 160lb/73kg ) when I began the WNAS diet . |
| 4 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
| 5 | I started school to er Bowvale School on Dovecote Lane at Eastwood , when I was two and a half . |
| 6 | I was six when the war started . |
| 7 | I first started when I was seven and a half . |
| 8 | When she was two and a half , we all went on holiday in France with the two boys . |
| 9 | She was five and a half when she entered school for the first time . |
| 10 | ‘ She was four and a half when I first saw her , ’ explained Libby . |
| 11 | The house itself was 1914 or a bit earlier , steeply pitched slate roofs and high chimneys : bijou Lutyens for the leaner purse . |
| 12 | A hundred years later there were 90,000 and the town had a bad reputation for strikes . |
| 13 | It was ten-thirty and the wedding was fixed for an hour 's time . |
| 14 | At Boston Spa , for example , there were no adequate washing facilities for 16 years ; at Exeter , it was 1887 before the school got hot water facilities ; at Old Kent Road , the installation of gas pipes which could have provided better lighting was rejected in 1833 on the grounds the cost was exorbitant and that the children could make do with candles . |
| 15 | Jane could never remember which , but it was one or the other . |
| 16 | ‘ It was one or the other of your bright boy-friends who sent me this , was it ? ’ he demanded , tossing the paper down in front of her . |
| 17 | It was 1987 and the State of Emergency in South Africa was strangling the black opposition . |
| 18 | He was killed by a needle-like instrument ( punctured wound the report says , but it was four and a quarter inches deep ) going into his kidney , renal artery , peritoneum and loop of jejunem . |
| 19 | I find it extra-ordinary that the police could not get access to these files simply because it was 5.30 and the office was shut . |
| 20 | After a long struggle , Mexico finally refused to pay : it was 1982 and the country had an 80-billion-dollar debt . |
| 21 | It was seven and the night nurse had already begun her round at the other side of the house when he slipped downstairs . |
| 22 | Gustave met Mme Schlesinger at Trouville : he was fourteen and a half , she twenty-six . |
| 23 | To tell me he would , she would come when he was four and a quarter . |
| 24 | well he should only be eight and a half , I mean they told us he was three and a half when he was rescued . |