Example sentences of "[prep] two and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about 7.30 p.m. , after two and a half hours ' sleep curled up on the floor of the trench , I made my way out of the orchard and on to the road . |
| 2 | After two and a half hours at the leisure centre , Joanna was taken to a police station in Hemel Hempstead . |
| 3 | After two and a half hours of deliberation , they awarded damages against The Sun , editor Kelvin MacKenzie and freelance journalist Ken Irwin . |
| 4 | And after two and a half hours , the doctor made the decision for me and gave me the epidural . |
| 5 | After two and a half months , very little outside aid has reached the refugees in southern Iran . |
| 6 | It was Tax Day , the deadline for Americans to file their tax returns , and the day that a New York judge had ordered Mrs Helmsley , 71 , to surrender to jail after two and a half years of appeals following her conviction for cheating the Internal Revenue Service ( IRS ) of $1.7 million . |
| 7 | ‘ After two and a half years , we are still here . |
| 8 | After two and a half years , Mr Lawrence brought in the consultants , McKinsey & Co . |
| 9 | Five years ago he began seeing a psychotherapist , but stopped after two and a half years of treatment . |
| 10 | I felt that after two and a half years , the therapy had served its purpose . |
| 11 | As a man without qualifications he drifted towards a commercial career but , after two and a half years in a city shipping office , was rescued by a legacy of £1,000 from an aunt . |
| 12 | In December 1852 , after two and a half years of dithering , the Ottoman Empire acceded to French demands in respect of the Holy Places . |
| 13 | AFTER TWO and a half years ' studious application , Tilbury Container Services Personnel Officer , Paula Lowe , is now a graduate of the Institute of Personnel Management . |
| 14 | That is what the jury thought too , and after an absence of two and a half hours returned guilty verdicts against all three . |
| 15 | During an average study time of two and a half hours , normal controls had reflux for 12% of the study , whereas patients after gastric surgery had reflux for 91% of the study time ( p<0.0002 ) . |
| 16 | This is not uncommon in the South East and well within the building society norm of two and a half times income . |
| 17 | Charles 's claim to be a martyr must largely depend on what ensued in the period of two and a half years between the end of the First Civil War and his execution . |
| 18 | For this purpose the current research project has about ECU6 million to spend over a period of two and a half years . |
| 19 | This latter is a longitudinal survey over a period of two and a half years following a structured sample of some 4,000 persons who registered as unemployed in May 1980 . |
| 20 | A period of two and a half years of which fifteen months have been for construction . |
| 21 | Like both sides , to do like two and a half pages . |
| 22 | Within hours of his arrival , Coleridge was listening to Wordsworth recite a substantial new poem called ‘ The Ruined Cottage ’ ; after tea Coleridge replied with two and a half acts of Osorio , and in the morning followed the whole of The Borderers , Wordsworth 's north country tragedy . |
| 23 | The fracture of the right femur healed in six weeks with two and a half inches of shortening . |
| 24 | The course follows the American precedent , with two and a half days each week allocated to in-house tuition , augmented by home study , and governed by an acronym which becomes fixed in the minds of all students : DPR , or , Daily Practise Routines . |
| 25 | Bangor were bowled out for with two and a half overs still remaining . |
| 26 | They did the journey to London within two and a half hours . |
| 27 | The three won a place following a regional ‘ cook-off ’ and now face the task of preparing a three-course meal for four within two and a half hours and within a budget of £30 . |
| 28 | A sample by OPCS of over 1000 couples divorced in 1979 showed that about one-third of both divorced husbands and divorced wives had remarried within two and a half years ( Central Statistical Office , 1988 ) . |
| 29 | A longitudinal sample of 1084 couples who divorced in 1979 found that one-third of both husbands ( 34 per cent ) and wives ( 33 per cent ) had remarried within two and a half years , and that those with children were just as likely to remarry as those with no children ( Haskey , 1987 ; Bhrolcain , 1988 ) . |
| 30 | As a result , robots were paying for themselves within two and a half years ( Thurow , 1984 ) . |