Example sentences of "[adv] eight [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slim Annette , who weighs just eight and a half stones , said she did not fulfil everyone 's idea of a dame . |
| 2 | Last year there were nearly eight and a half thousand road accidents in Oxfordshire . |
| 3 | Wool sorters at Exeter worked " from the time of being able to discern the wool until the evening " , which amounted to about eight and a half hours in winter and twelve in summer . |
| 4 | basic of about eight and a half of something |
| 5 | Even though I was about eight and a half . |
| 6 | he should be about eight and a half , he 's rescued . |
| 7 | I have been here eight and a half years now . |
| 8 | I do not expect much joy from the Minister tonight , but I give warning that , for the time I remain on these Benches , with the label on which I came here eight and a half years ago — as a Labour Member of Parliament , albeit a Member who has a label beneath his name on the TV as an expelled Labour Member — I shall bring before the House the necessary measures not just to talk about the death of the poll tax but to bury it once and for all . |
| 9 | But it is complicated and I er mean really for the average investor , unless you 're a non-taxpayer , because the in er the income from the gilts is gross , it may be worth er it may be worth a non-taxpayer holding gilts , and er getting a gross yield of maybe eight and a quarter , nine percent . |
| 10 | That means that two-thirds of the population can be expected to sleep between six and a half and eight and a half hours a night , about 16 per cent regularly sleep over eight and a half hours , and another 16 per cent sleep under six and a half hours . |