Example sentences of "three and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This grew from three to three and a half million by 1981 and was created by a combination of net immigration , earlier and more frequent marriage , and the maintenance of relatively high levels of childbirth . |
| 2 | I was there for about three and a half years . |
| 3 | Malcolm 's return brought him a straight push for three and a ninth Test hundred , but he immediately drove half-heartedly at Hemmings and gave Gooch a simple catch at mid-on . |
| 4 | As it happens , the problems of an unstaged Porgy are hardly less acute — a cast of 24 soloists and a duration of three and a quarter hours are not easily managed in the concert hall . |
| 5 | Racing and Ireland go together — it is said there are as many horses as people ( three and a half million ) — and racecourse crowds are extremely knowledgeable about the sport . |
| 6 | Its own scheme was implemented three and a half years ago , and now 85 per cent of its 250,000 borrowers pay this way . |
| 7 | In a long match like this it is really difficult to play your best for three and a half hours . ’ |
| 8 | EVEN WITH half a dozen arias omitted , the Opera North production of Mozart 's La Finta Giardiniera makes a long evening , three and a half hours including interval . |
| 9 | It was there in 1903 that quarrymen went on strike for three and a half years , surviving on subsistence farming . |
| 10 | By that date Moscow had provided a mere three and a half million roubles , and one million had come in from other gubernii . |
| 11 | As Nick Gatfield , director of A&R for EMI Records ( UK ) says , ‘ In three and a half years at EMI I have signed only one artist from an unsolicited demo tape . ’ |
| 12 | He points to the fact that the Atlantic can now be crossed in three and a half hours as indisputable evidence that the pace has hotted up , but in his view , the next generation will assimilate such changes . |
| 13 | Around the world , they cause the deaths of three and a half million children every year . |
| 14 | So by sharing a little of what we have , we can remover the threat of these terrible diseases which , currently , kill three and a half million children a year . |
| 15 | With your help we can achieve that goal in 1990 — and in doing so , we can save the lives of three and a half million children every year . |
| 16 | Flying time is three and a half hours and there is no time change . |
| 17 | Royal Cedar , trained by John McConnochie , who has taken him over from the now retired Mercy Rimell , is another who is perfectly at home on fast ground , winning here over three and a half miles and at Newbury this season . |
| 18 | Royal Cedar , trained by John McConnochie , who has taken him over from the now retired Mercy Rimell , is another who is perfectly at home on fast ground , winning here over three and a half miles and at Newbury this season . |
| 19 | Yet now , three and a half years after Debbie was discharged from hospital , her mother has written a letter to the authorities , bitterly criticising them for ‘ bad planning , no comprehension and dismissive attitudes ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Between the two of them , he owed between three and a half and four and a half thousand dollars , just for cocaine for that weekend . ’ |
| 21 | Just before Christmas , a man had been seized at gunpoint and made to drive a van loaded with three and a half thousand pounds of explosives into Annaghmartin ; the Christmas before , two soldiers had been shot dead at the Derry checkpoint , next door . |
| 22 | That was less than three and a half hours ago , but it might have been years . |
| 23 | The following season he was back at the Festival as favourite for the Gold Cup , but soft going and the distance of three and a quarter miles proved his undoing , and he finished fifth . |
| 24 | There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters . |
| 25 | Moz was a four-year old stallion who for most of his life , the three and a half years following weaning , had been kept in a small yard measuring no more than 20 x 20ft ( 6 X 6m ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Alison 's baby book starts at three and a half . |
| 28 | The trap with its missing section of beam had been three and a half feet across , and Harry , taking the envelope bait , had gone through its centre . |
| 29 | JOHN BERRY , 54 , who was released on parole last week after serving three and a half years of a six-year sentence for making explosive devices , is to have a new appeal hearing in his long-running legal battle to clear his name . |
| 30 | JOHN BERRY , 54 , who was released on parole last week after serving three and a half years of a six-year sentence for making explosive devices , is to have a new appeal hearing in his long-running legal battle to clear his name . |