Example sentences of "[num ord] [adj] and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | for the first nineteen and a half minutes . |
| 2 | Taff decided to do the first two and a half hours on the gun so I crawled to the back of the trench , curled up and immediately dropped off to sleep . |
| 3 | When they first interviewed Sykes , on Monday this is , he told them he was staying at a cottage in the Lake District entirely on his own for the first two and a half weeks in September . |
| 4 | Perhaps ‘ end of term ’ reports on individual authorities and schools after their first two and a half years or so of implementing the 1981 Act ( when the research data were finally gathered ) would range from commenting , ‘ Encouraging progress has been made ’ , through the ubiquitous ‘ Could do better ’ to ‘ Disappointing work . |
| 5 | For the first two and a half years of his life he was in and out of hospital until they found the right medication . |
| 6 | The tax burden under this Government rose during our first two and a half years because we inherited at the top of the business cycle a borrowing requirement of 5.5 per cent . |
| 7 | In that log book , which he showed me later , was the name , port and country of origin , of every ship that had passed through during the last eight and a half years , together with her age and condition , her destination , and of course the name of the captain and details of the cargo . |
| 8 | In the saddle Simon Goodman , the man who 's spent every waking hour of the last 2 and a half years creating a machine to recapture the excitement of classic British motorcycling . |
| 9 | I have nothing but the highest admiration for the quality and devotion of the work they have put into the care of the plaintiff over the last six and a half years . |
| 10 | Either the tumour in my lung had grown in the last three and a half weeks , in which case it must be even more in evidence , or it had stood still , in which case today 's X-rays must be much the same as the previous ones , or it had diminished . |
| 11 | I met some now very loyal friends who have seen me through these last three and a half years . |
| 12 | I mean I 've never needed a new licence for the last three and a half years but Nicholas erm prior to this in the countdown to me appearing for my drink drive which is in a matter of about ten weeks I believe in the countdown to that , Nick said on several o two occasions anyway while other members of staff were present , Well this is a way of getting rid of him without having to pay him redundancy money . |
| 13 | The third reason why we 're , we 're pleased to see you here is that erm as a trades council , we 've and this er and Dick mentioned this in his introduction , we 've initiated a major international programme , major in terms of our size obviously as er as a local body , involving links between union activists here primarily in France er , in northern France , but also links now developing in Spain with the new ferry going between Portsmouth and Bilbao , we 're starting to meet with the unions in Spain who are interested in speaking about the , the , the differences in wages in terms and conditions working for the same ferry company , doing the same jobs in the port , a comparative look at how the , the wages terms and conditions differ and we want to , we want to go and visit them in the autumn and , and work out , and work on more links on a sector basis , so that our colleagues down in Bilbao in northern Spain can link up with people in the , in the , in similar sectors here and we 've done this over the last three and a half years with the unions in France , we 've had exchanges of all sectors , the public sectors , transport , erm , health , social services , shop workers . |
| 14 | Jo refused to discuss the Oscars ; the whole idea was too exciting to bear serious thought , and besides she knew something about the events of the next three and a half hours that her mother did not , and would not until her name was called . |
| 15 | You see , I suddenly felt that I could n't bear it , not knowing where they were going to be for the next three and a half weeks ( though in retrospect I doubt whether the location of the groom much perturbed me ) . |
| 16 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 17 | During the next three and a half years I often thought of this meal and of the amount I had to leave on my plate because I could not eat any more . |
| 18 | For lovers of Jaguar sports cars , the next three and a half years are going to seem interminable . |
| 19 | The General Secretary mentions some of them in his Report , and I do not apologize for mentioning it again , they 're fighting back at Timex , they 're fighting back at Burnsall , in my own region at Crawley we 've twenty members who 've been on strike for the last sixteen and a half weeks . |
| 20 | My Lord , erm those are , those are my submissions my Lord , I was going to say something about my learned friends somewhat unusual request to your Lordship to make disparaging comments in judgment about the defendants case , my learned friend wishes to make disparaging comments we save a proper place for those in his submissions when he comes to apply to strike out , or say anything about that , erm , my Lord erm perhaps erm as a , as a final point , erm Mr Bernard after having reviewed a piano recital once wrote , the only thing he enjoyed more than this directive performance was having his teeth pulled , I think your Lordship has not found that the last five and a half days are equally an under defended experience in relation to , to this mornings sir activity |
| 21 | I spent the next four and a half months in Kuwait and Iraq as part of Saddam Hussein 's human shield , with nothing except my hand luggage and the clothes ( and shoes ) that I was wearing when the flight left London . |
| 22 | The next four and a half years were a waking nightmare for the Keenans , especially for Brian 's sisters Brenda Gillham and Elaine Spence . |
| 23 | For the next four and a half years , Ali 's hands were tied day and night . |
| 24 | Over the next four and a half years Burton , like a young shark eating all before it , devoured the sport , the small-town adventure life , the clubs and choirs and outings available . |
| 25 | General Council 's action in support of the miners and wool textile workers signaled a turn in the tide , the beginning of a definite stand against the policy of wage reductions which economic conditions have enabled the employers to impose in the last four and a half years . |
| 26 | S A Wahid , the owner for the last four and a half years , has asked publishers to cancel all dues and catalogues . |
| 27 | When one thinks of all the PM 's work these last four and a half years and of all he is and stands for , and that this is the response it gets , it makes one lose faith a bit . |
| 28 | The role of the Queen is vastly different from that assumed for the monarch under the Tudors ; the hereditary element in the House of Lords has plummeted in importance in the deliberations of the House over the last two and a half decades ; and the House of Commons has become , although in relatively recent times , with the extension of the franchise , a popular assembly . |
| 29 | In addition to the Sadducees , Pharisees and Essenes , Judaism , in Jesus 's time , included a number of smaller , less well-known splinter-groups and sects , two of which have begun to figure increasingly in biblical scholarship during the last two and a half decades . |
| 30 | The current campaign positioning for Johnnie Walker Black has remained true to itself for the last two and a half decades . |