Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 2 | Moz was a four-year old stallion who for most of his life , the three and a half years following weaning , had been kept in a small yard measuring no more than 20 x 20ft ( 6 X 6m ) . |
| 3 | In the three and a half years between his abdication and the summer of Dunkirk , King Edward , had he remained on the Throne , might have developed differently . |
| 4 | He thought to take Mr gross salary in the present financial year , to reduce it by a third to get from gross to net earnings and to do similar calculations for the rest of the three and a half years so as to arrive at the figure of fifty three thousand nine hundred and six pounds . |
| 5 | She seemed pulled out , elongated by it , so that her shoes , her new bronze slippers with rosettes on the toes that Aunt Emily had said she must keep hidden at all times if possible since legs and feet were highly indecent , seemed far further away than the five and a half feet she knew separated them from the crown of her head . |
| 6 | Even more puzzling is why , throughout the five and a half years Blake was in Wormwood Scrubs , no action was taken to move him to a more secure establishment . |
| 7 | Should we not also still go for the , if we can , the one and a half times they work Saturdays ? |
| 8 | But it was coming up to thirty nineish and the war breaking out so the one and a half days a week started to change to five days , which gave you a w a regular wages of about thirty shillings . |
| 9 | What is going to happen after the nine and a half years ? |
| 10 | The Thyssen museum opened in Madrid on 9th of last month to fairly general self-congratulation in the Spanish newspapers , qualified by the hope that the paintings would remain there at the end of the nine and a half years loan/rental period ( The Art Newspaper No. 21 , Oct 1992 , pp.1 , 6 ) . |
| 11 | A retrospect on the progress of the church in the two and a half centuries between St Peter and Constantine must include substantial astonishment . |
| 12 | The two and a half weeks I had been away from home seemed like years . |
| 13 | It can be no bigger than A4 , and it must n't project more than 3 inches , but at the moment they are pouring into Rosie Headers house , and we 've had stuff from Japan and America already , and also from artists in the community , but anybody can enter for Mail Art , so if anybody 's interested in a Mail Art sheet , I can get one for you , but those exhibitions are going up in Freud 's , which is our sort of Festival Centre for the two and a half weeks during the Festival . |
| 14 | Thus the two and a half years between his resignation and the outbreak of the Second World War brought Baldwin , the epitome of a man looking forward to retirement , disappointment and anticlimax rather than satisfactory afterglow . |
| 15 | Sir John had been a Conservative councillor and had presided over the National Industrial Relations Court for the two and a half years of its existence during the Heath administration . |
| 16 | As you 've heard we 've been cutting costs pretty significantly over the last couple of years erm what we 're talking about is three thousand people having been er made redundant over the two and a half years and as we were saying earlier substantial redundancy costs have had to be borne . |
| 17 | The Ribera exhibition now at the Prado until 25 August was a popular success in Naples ' Castel Sant'Elmo , whose romantic fastnesses suited the shadows of the artist 's style ; in the two and a half months until 17 May it had 80,000 visitors , which in Italy , for a serious exhibition , is a large number . |
| 18 | So do the million and a half termites living in the colony . |
| 19 | I do n't trust them and I have n't for the seven and a half years I 've been inside jail . |
| 20 | The World Council Churches on this occasion reviewed the work accomplished during the seven and a half years since the last assembly in Vancouver in Canada . |
| 21 | During the seven and a half months I was on C1 I went to Crown Court twice , and each time I got remanded back into Holloway . |
| 22 | This is what I 'll do — an injection to take away the pain and reduce the bruising and a few tablets for you to give today and tomorrow . |
| 23 | By 2.00 though the pains were every one and a half minutes and I was only 2cms dilated. was sitting eating sandwiches and I was starving hungry . |
| 24 | After my marriage I used to go to Africa every one and a half years or so . |
| 25 | And that took the centre of the glass down by maybe a a one and a half millimetres . |
| 26 | A retired Ministry of Defence official has gone on trial accused of accepting a million and a half pounds in bribes to award arms contracts abroad . |
| 27 | Brazil has been boosted both by David Byrne , whose new Latin big band made such an impression here last week , and the dance hit , Lambada , by Kaoma , which sold over a million and a half copies in France and became the best-selling European single of the year . |
| 28 | Group testing received its first big boost when the US entered World War 1 in 1917 to provide for the rapid classification of a million and a half recruits who needed to be assigned to suitable roles in the military machine . |
| 29 | If it 's a million , if it 's a million and a half dollars it 's er three quarters of a million pounds |
| 30 | Over a million and a half barrels of herring a year had been exported to Russia prior to the embargo . |