Example sentences of "[noun sg] [num] and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He died suddenly of another massive stroke three and a half years after his original illness . |
| 2 | That memorable Champion Chase clash with Remittance Man saw Katabatic beaten a length , with Waterloo Boy three and a half lengths back in third . |
| 3 | artwork one and a half times the size which it will be reproduced . |
| 4 | Mike Cooke took up the sport two and a half years ago . |
| 5 | In all its major value for money three and a half hours and 50 tracks , ‘ … |
| 6 | Montaine 's suicide had taken place two and a half years ago . |
| 7 | Aha That 's right , it would be somebody of one rung down perhaps from and half a rung down from if you can put that in context I mean is an absolute beginner she knew nothing about this business two and a half years ago |
| 8 | He pointed to experiments in the process two and a half centuries before ( and could , in fact , have gone back to the fifteenth century ) . |
| 9 | On one occasion he nearly saw the man killed : ‘ The rope , sixty-five yards long , on his being drawn up , having a knot in the middle , was arrested by a clint ( crack ) in the rock , to which , with an eaglet sixteen and a half pounds weight , tied to his back , he had no other resource than that of ascending by his hands , the space something overhanging from the nest to the crack … |
| 10 | We 've been humping away for a whole two and a half pages . |
| 11 | I remind the hon. Gentleman that we are spending on training and enterprise two and a half times as much in real terms as the last Labour Government . |
| 12 | There was a lot more professionalism to his jumping as , travelling strongly throughout , the top weight only had to be shaken up after the last to beat previous winner Wellknown Character two and a half lengths . |
| 13 | Yet the two earliest recordings of the movement , by the celebrated disciples Willem Mengelberg ( 1926 ) and Bruno Walter ( 1938 ) , average seven and a half minutes ' duration . |
| 14 | For she 'd literally been shaken to her roots when the clothing firm she 'd worked for for the past six and a half years had collapsed , making the entire work-force redundant . |
| 15 | ‘ I had a cartilage operation three and a half years ago , and I went in for a tackle just before Christmas and damaged it again . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | AS YOU might expect of a nation that has devoted the past three and a half centuries to failed attempts at independence , Ukrainian leaders have a propensity for messing things up when it matters most . |
| 18 | The princess has been calling on the skills of an astrologer in the region for the past three and a half years . |
| 19 | For the past 11 and a half years , Michelle Howard has been paralysed from the chest down ; the result , she claims , of a routine jaw operation she underwent at Poole General Hospital in 1982 . |
| 20 | I spent the past nine and a half years doing everything I can to keep everything about my daughter secret . |
| 21 | She is 24 and has been in prison or special hospital for the past five and a half years . |
| 22 | ‘ One of the things that struck me as an outsider , coming into the firm two and a half years ago , was that there was no accountability , ’ recalls Mel Smaje . |
| 23 | Experience in the past two and a half years has shown both the general effectiveness of such schemes and the need for a much wider extension of them . |
| 24 | Fund raising for the £130,000 project had , said Mr. Kirby ‘ been an up-hill struggle ’ over the past two and a half years , but the end was now in sight . |
| 25 | I take this opportunity to pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for all the work that he has done in the past two and a half years to improve the future and administration of Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | She has been a member of the Finance Committee for the past two and a half years and has taken a great interest in the Society 's financial affairs . |
| 27 | However , it has surely been to the mutual advantage of the people of Scotland and England that we have had that union for the past two and a half centuries . |
| 28 | An exhibition including the Irises and six other Impressionist works has travelled round the capital cities of Austrlia over the past two and a half months , ending in Perth . |
| 29 | After saving up my hard-earned wages for the past four and a half years I managed to scrape the 1750 or so quid together and bought myself the most stunning quilted maple P.R.S. Custom you ever saw . |
| 30 | This article will look at the work of the Commissioner during the past four and a half years , the problems which she has faced , and will conclude that she provides a model for other areas of dispute resolution . |