Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] was [num] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stared at it now , hardly able to believe that it was two and a half years since it had been taken . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The ship left there shortly after midnight but it was six and a half hours before the seamen were discovered missing . |
| 5 | And er the half hour was er erm we had nine and a half five days , that was er from eight till half past five I do n't know but it was fifty-two and a half hours , from eight till half-past twelve on a Saturday and er |
| 6 | ‘ After my father died , when I was five and a half , she used to make me bath myself all alone . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | I did a dreadful thing , the worst thing of my life , when I was twelve and a half years old , or I feel that I did , and nothing can change it … ’ |
| 9 | When I was eighteen and a half I was let out , but I think I got institutionalised being there three and a half years , and I wanted to stay there . |
| 10 | I started school to er Bowvale School on Dovecote Lane at Eastwood , when I was two and a half . |
| 11 | I first started when I was seven and a half . |
| 12 | My parents kept a baby book about me until I was sixteen , and when I was three and a half they wrote : ‘ Takes a great interest in her clothes and chooses her own outfit each morning . |
| 13 | A MUM today hugged the new-born baby she feared might might have been injured in a hit and run car crash when she was eight and a half months pregnant . |
| 14 | When she was two and a half , we all went on holiday in France with the two boys . |
| 15 | but I , I disagree with them lending money to the extent , the old way was better when it was two and a half times the salary , your salary |
| 16 | To tell me he would , she would come when he was four and a quarter . |