Example sentences of "[be] [adj] and a [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The course should be five and a half miles as the crow flies . |
| 2 | ‘ Four thousand revs will give you 90 mph in the Formula First , ’ he said , ‘ and in a car which is one and a half inches off the ground , that will feel like 190 mph , so it should be plenty fast enough for today . ’ |
| 3 | A new Jump Pattern has been worked out and some new races created specifically for horses whose optimum trip is two and a half miles , a distance not previously catered for at championship level both over hurdles and fences , although there will still be nothing for novice chasers over that distance at the Cheltenham Festival . |
| 4 | Start from the layby next to the Dundonnell River which is two and a half miles south of Dundonnell on the A832 . |
| 5 | It 's two and a half miles from door to door and there are buses later on , but if she 's on the late shift and just misses one , Joelle is faced with another long walk if her mother ca n't pick her up by car . |
| 6 | ( A pelycosaur sub-order like the Dimetrodon , with its great cooling crest , was three and a half metres long . ) |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | My creature was two and a half metres tall . |