Example sentences of "[is] [adj] and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's six and a half minutes to six . |
| 2 | Flying time is three and a half hours and there is no time change . |
| 3 | she 's three and a half years older than you . |
| 4 | ‘ Sailing time is fourteen and a half hours away . |
| 5 | That 's five and a half hours at a bit under two knots — say ten miles in round figures . |
| 6 | That 's five and a half hours and we 've got to be there at two |
| 7 | The show is one and a half hours of entertainment for children of all ages . |
| 8 | A pint of beer or a small glass of wine is one unit , and a measure of spirits is one and a half units . |
| 9 | In rural Third World communities the average transit time is one and a half days ; in Western countries it is about three days in young healthy adults ; among the elderly it is often over two weeks . |
| 10 | The time now is nine and a half minutes past seven . |
| 11 | The time now is nine and a half minutes past eight . |
| 12 | It 's one and a half years |
| 13 | This year 's spending of £6.5 million is four and a half times the level of two years ago . |
| 14 | A melodramatic , almost operatic , intro slides into an average Morrissey-Marr number that is two and a half minutes long and a ton too light . |
| 15 | The usual length of a party is two and a half hours , with tea in the middle , and this , together with the singing of ‘ Happy Birthday ’ , usually lasts half an hour . |
| 16 | London is two and a half hours away by train . |
| 17 | The Netherlands ( one of the richest countries in the world ) is twice as densely populated as India ( one of the poorest ) and the UK is two and a half times as densely populated as China . |
| 18 | Government spending of more than £2.6 billion in 1992-93 on enterprise and vocational education is two and a half times more in real terms than in 1978-79 . |
| 19 | in England , it is two and a half times what is raised presently in Wales . |
| 20 | What minute now it 's two and a half minutes . |
| 21 | It 's two and a half minutes to six o'clock . |
| 22 | Now the thing that worries me is that the N R A and our linkage with them is I do n't think it 's early days for them and they have n't got the the power and the erm law behind them to enforce it as the way which I think most of us would like to think of have a erm erm an organization tha that can in fact start bringing the law in that if people fail to do what they say erm so that aspect I think I now Chris also mentioned this erm tilting in West Sussex and again that mentioned in the structure plan , because I six mill a year but in ten years that 's two and a half inches . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's two and a half guineas ! ’ she hissed at Louise , who could tell that she was genuinely appalled . |
| 24 | My son Adam , who 's two and a half years old , loves making everyone laugh — especially by wearing his funny face ! |
| 25 | Japanese , it 's a massive one , one er , it 's a thirty thousand gallon erm pond and it 's got , and it goes through a filter box and it 's four and a half tons of erm four and a half tons and that is a lot of |
| 26 | I personally , in all the cases I 've dealt with , which is seven and a half years , have only ever really gone to magistrates court but I 've got two cases going to crown court soon , but it 's exceptionally hard and to answer your question , I actually have never fou never got anyone to go to prison yet . |
| 27 | that 's seven and a half hours ! |