Example sentences of "[prep] four and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | After four and a half years of war involving food and clothes rationing , and bombing , and losing friends , the sight of these large , prosperous , untouched-by-anything foreigners parading round the streets , chatting up anything in skirts , was profoundly irritating . |
2 | He quit after four and a half years because he feared he would get tagged as a soap star . |
3 | And Brian Keenan 's return after four and a half years of captivity , carried this message for western governments : |
4 | After four and a half months of deliberation , the committee presented its report . |
5 | On 9 May , after a closure of four and a half years , the gallery reopens with , among other treasures , Whistler 's restored Peacock Room |
6 | It will have a maturity of four and a half years and pay an annual coupon of 5.75% . |
7 | Not until January 1163 did Henry again set foot in England , after an absence of four and a half years . |
8 | A Glasgow man 's been jailed for a total of four and a half years for blackmailing gay businessmen . |
9 | He spent a total of four and a half months in custody for a crime he did not commit . |
10 | This cloth could be had off the baulk in length by the ell , a measurement approximating forty-four inches , with four and a half ells considered sufficient for the purpose . |
11 | If the number of pleats across the knitting includes a half-repeat , with the pattern positioned symmetrically as above four and a half repeats would fall on the knitting as in Fig 7 . |
12 | Instead , he was out first thing next morning for 110 and Gower declared at 300 for 9 , leaving West Indies to make 342 in four and a half hours and twenty overs . |
13 | George Kirk , who works in Chemical Plants , battled round in four and a half hours while John Kenny from FDPED finished in three hours 18 minutes . |
14 | I 've only had ever about two complaints in four and a half years , and that 's not very bad , that 's only because the filter needed cleaning , mostly . |
15 | And for the first time in four and a half centuries … the new head boy is a GIRL ! |
16 | It is given over to writing between 2,000 and 2,500 words and it takes from three to four and a half hours to do . |
17 | A Nottingham body builder who subjected his girl friend to a campaign of sadistic mistreatment that included an attack with a hot iron had a three year jail sentence increased to four and a half years today . |
18 | A terrific finish to four and a half miles of the world 's greatest steeplechase . |
19 | For example , supposing you 're knitting pattern 1–10 ( Fig. 1 ) which is 24 stitches wide , and your knitting is 108 stitches wide so you have space for four and a half repeats . |
20 | Any other woman would have been spitting angry at being kept waiting for four and a half hours . |
21 | At the islands ' police headquarters they were detained for questioning for four and a half hours . |
22 | But nothing prepares you for four and a half hours climbing up crumbling ice . |
23 | Army bomb disposal experts arrived at Dorton late this afternoon to join the search of the trackside that had already been going on for four and a half hours . |
24 | The effect of Christian Democrat hegemony for four and a half decades has been the perpetual incumbency of a small circle of politicians . |
25 | Those who were lucky enough to see these two players in the same Palace team for four and a half seasons were certainly among the most privileged of the club 's patrons . |
26 | The court heard that while on bail Hart , who was also banned from driving for four and a half years , was caught behind the wheel in a pub car park but refused to take breath tests . |
27 | A Glasgow man 's been jailed for four and a half years for blackmailing gay businessmen . |
28 | The Judge held that George was responsible for instigating the crime and jailed him for four and a half years . |
29 | Kevin Kennedy , who 's twenty two , was jailed for four and a half years . |
30 | I even wore those same trainers that had been glued to my feet for four and a half months . |