Example sentences of "[prep] five and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The rescue services are still trying to put out fires after five and a half hours . |
| 2 | Last December UK sales director Billy Adair after five and a half years with the company . |
| 3 | After five and a half years of intense activity the burdens of leading the French people had worn de Gaulle down . |
| 4 | They were joined by John McCarthy , who spent his first days of freedom at the airbase after five and a half years as a hostage . |
| 5 | Only three housewives had paid domestic help at the time of the interview : two for six hours a week and one for five and a half hours a fortnight . |
| 6 | For five and a half hours , competitors in teams of four , battled it out finishing in time for lunch late in the afternoon . |
| 7 | She had worked in the supermarket off Mulfords Hill for five and a half months . |
| 8 | That is the highest for five and a half years and is on course to reach three million around Christmas or early in the New Year . |
| 9 | Er yes current position er at the moment I 'm the licence training manager for brewery and I 've held that position for five and a half years . |
| 10 | My voyage to Laputa , Balnibarbi , Glubbdubdrib and Luggnagg had taken me away from home for five and a half years . |
| 11 | Senior Accounts Clerk Elsa Faulds , who has worked with Douglas Reyburn for five and a half years was married to Jim Speirs on 14th September at Darvel Central Church . |
| 12 | Yes , two thousand three hundred people per week is correct but that was week on every week for five and a half years that Labour held office . |
| 13 | Two thousand three hundred per week for five and a half years . |
| 14 | A ROYAL Navy technician who was extradited to New Zealand from Britain was jailed for five and a half years in Christchurch yesterday for snatching a woman off a beach and raping her . |
| 15 | And I mean it was a difficult start , and I was in fact a junior detective for five and a half years before any alteration was made in the staff , there was no promotions or leaving so that as junior detective for five and a half years , I got all jobs that nobody else wanted |
| 16 | And I mean it was a difficult start , and I was in fact a junior detective for five and a half years before any alteration was made in the staff , there was no promotions or leaving so that as junior detective for five and a half years , I got all jobs that nobody else wanted |
| 17 | Well now , although it was not much more of a job really than an errand boy 's , but as I did that for five and a half years I got to know the people at the pawnbrokers , the cycle agents I got to know them so well , I knew the staff , I got to know the people who were pawning clues and that regularly , I was getting more information every year . |