Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [adj] and a " in BNC.
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1 | And that was how I was trained and that way I was trained seven and a half years ago , it has now all changed again . |
2 | The difference between the last elected candidate , Annon , ( DUP ) with 5,800 votes and the runner up , Donnelly ( SDLP ) with 5,124 votes , was 676 , which was covered two and a half times by 1,698 non-transferable votes most of which came from NILP and Alliance . |
3 | After nearly an hour and a half at sea in gale force winds Falmouth lifeboat , under the command of Second Coxswain Alan Barnes , came up on the yacht , a 40ft steel ketch , which was drifting two and a half miles south west of The Lizard Light . |
4 | She was feeling hurt and a little bewildered . |
5 | ‘ Some sort of scheme would be reasonable , but only if there was training involved and a decent wage . ’ |
6 | He was given two and a half years custody . |