Example sentences of "one and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes on to argue that the bourgeoisie have always used sections from within the ‘ dangerous classes ’ to control those who are overtly troublesome , perhaps following the maxim that ‘ it takes a thief to catch a thief ’ , when he argues : ‘ for one and a half centuries the bourgeoisie offered the following choices : you can go to prison or join the Army ; you can go to prison or go to the colonies ; you can go to prison or you can join the police ’ ( ibid. 23 ) . |
| 2 | The standard charge is set by the local council , and can be zero , one half , equal to , one and a half or twice the cost of the personal community charge in the area . |
| 3 | On any day towards the end of the campaign , those who had been very interested in politics just before the campaign opened were one and a half times as likely to read a paper , and twice as likely to watch both BBC-TV and ITV news , as those with no interest in politics ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 4 | Their volume of production was one and a half times greater , and they were engaged chiefly in clothing , woodwork , skins , and agricultural repairs . |
| 5 | In the Gomel'sk workshops in Belorussia 450 railway staff collected one and a half million roubles in order to start up their own social insurance scheme for lack of an adequate state system . |
| 6 | At the same time he tried to make an economic case for expenditure in that area : ‘ Moreover , from the trade point of view , this area was probably worth between one and one and a half million employed men to this country . |
| 7 | His empire now stretched over one and a half million square miles of war-shattered Asia , with a population of some 128 million , many of them starving or , at least , severely undernourished . |
| 8 | Over one and a half million cubic metres of ash were swept out of what remained of the town . |
| 9 | There is a wind-blown cornice of about one and a half metres overhanging a sheer drop of about eight metres . |
| 10 | After my marriage I used to go to Africa every one and a half years or so . |
| 11 | Wexford had seen that glass and teak lamp in a Kingsmarkham shop and noted it had been priced at twenty-five pounds , one and a quarter times Hatton 's weekly wage . |
| 12 | This fire officer , however , refused to allow the use of a sizeable proportion of the props , around which the entire show was structured ; and , although the Prince and Princess of Wales were arriving in one and a half hours ' time along with five Cabinet ministers , and the cast would have no time to rehearse without the props they relied upon , he was not to be budged . |
| 13 | It has large capels with a pound sign on one and a dollar sign on the other . |
| 14 | One and a half million new accounts were opened in the first year . |
| 15 | She found a used tram ticket to Holborn in one and a little hanky scrumpled up in the bottom of the other . |
| 16 | The sheet metal workers , who cut sheet metal to the design of the drawings of the part of a car , earned 2s 6d ( 12p ) per hour , and did a lot of overtime at one and a quarter time , which means that many of them would have been earning £6 or £7 per week , and be well over the arbitrary divide of £4 suggested as a line for the divide between the working class and the middle class . |
| 17 | Reduce sugar on cereal to one and a half teaspoons . |
| 18 | Goal for sugar Reduce sugar on cereal to one and a half spoonsful . |
| 19 | Pebbles was an outstanding racehorse , but the Breeders ' Cup bid was none the less a characteristically bold move on the part of trainer Clive Brittain , for the Turf race is over one and a half miles and she had never raced beyond ten furlongs . |
| 20 | The official winning margin over Bering was one and a half lengths . |
| 21 | He then ran a gallant race when third to Linwell in the Mildmay Memorial Chase over three miles five furlongs at Sandown Park , conceding twenty-three pounds to the winner and finishing only one and a half lengths behind him . |
| 22 | Wayward Lad was one and a half lengths further away in third , Silver Buck a tired and remote fourth , and then Ashley House stayed on up the hill to pass Combs Ditch amid cheering never before heard for a horse running fifth ! |
| 23 | Alphabatim was third , one and a half lengths behind Baynoun , with Crazy fourth . |
| 24 | Some thought the Führer must have meant only the losses on the eastern Front , not including Stalingrad and those missing , and put the real figure at something like one and a half million . |
| 25 | I had two long dresses , a summer one and a winter one . |
| 26 | I always leave a minimum of one and a half hours so that if I have a blow-out or breakdown or some other unforeseen emergency , I still have time to take care of it and catch the plane . |
| 27 | It lasted only one and a half hours but it satisfied body and soul . |
| 28 | It took us One and a half hours to clean up , but my early start gave us plenty of time . |
| 29 | The result is a beautiful leisure park , one and a half miles long and nearly a mile wide , in the middle of the Danube . |
| 30 | Mr Patrick Fitzgibbon , who lives in Steeple Aston , said he was deeply concerned that the pilot ejected one and a half miles from the crash site . |