Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and a [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Birmingham City Centre is only two and a half miles distant and the property is convenient for access to the Midland and National Motorway Networks . |
| 2 | Birmingham City Centre is only two and a half miles away and the property is convenient for access to Midland and National Motorway Networks . |
| 3 | It stands in its own grounds of approximately one and a half acres and from its elevated position has spectacular views . |
| 4 | Ian Ashpole walked across a steel rope just one and a half inches wide almost two miles above the earth . |
| 5 | The task for balloonist and skydiver Ian Ashpole from Ross On Wye was this , to walk between two hot air balloons along a fifteen foot stainless steel rope , just one and a half inches wide at ten thousand five hundred feet . |
| 6 | There are just two and a half kilometres of railway in Lesotho . |
| 7 | Just under two and a half acres of land untouched for centuries is at stake . |
| 8 | Lowthorpe is a small elongated village , situated five miles northeast of Driffield , which stretches southwards for nearly three and a half miles across the plain of Holderness . |
| 9 | This seemed a race well beyond his stamina range , for the Grand National is over nearly four and a half miles and Crisp 's ideal distance was apparently no further than two and a half miles . |
| 10 | X 19 ins. , two inches thick , with a hole in the middle about three and a half inches in diameter . |
| 11 | One reason for finding the project intriguing was that it was a large open-air commission bigger than anything I had ever done about five and a half metres square . |
| 12 | The start of the text is clearly signalled by a rubric about five and a half inches from the top edge of the roll : " " Hic incipit interludium de clerico et puella " " , " Here begins the interlude of the clerk and the girl " . |
| 13 | We arrived at the lake at about 7.30a.m. after approximately a four and a half hour drive to find two lovely lakes , one , with a chalet on stilts , about seventeen acres and another smaller lake by its side about four and a half acres . |
| 14 | He was about two and a half metres tall ; naked muscular chest and short dark hair . |
| 15 | On the way back we were about two and a half miles from Fordingbridge when disaster struck . |
| 16 | The village of Tickton in East Yorkshire is situated on the Beverley to Bridlington road about two and a half miles north-east of Beverley and separated from it by the river Hull . |
| 17 | By the end of July an advance of about two and a half miles had been made on a front which at this depth did not exceed two miles . ’ |
| 18 | Follow the road from Florence , and just about two and a half miles before you reach the town of Greve , high on ups , stands a crenellated renaissance castle . |
| 19 | Tavarnelle is about two and a half miles in the opposite direction . |
| 20 | It was converted from a nobleman 's residence situated about two and a half miles north-east of San Gimignano on the way to Certaldo , is surrounded by its own gardens and is tastefully appointed in every aspect . |
| 21 | Louise : It 's a village about two and a half miles out of town . |
| 22 | Willis sometimes took Tilda , in her character as an apprentice painter , to the Tate Gallery , about two and a half miles along the Embankment . |
| 23 | The suedehead had hair at least one and a half inches long . |
| 24 | A gain of 400 in the first amplifier/filter will then produce an output of almost two and a half volts from the total earth 's field vector , avoiding overload and permitting a peak-to-peak measurement by rotating the core . |
| 25 | Royal Cedar , trained by John McConnochie , who has taken him over from the now retired Mercy Rimell , is another who is perfectly at home on fast ground , winning here over three and a half miles and at Newbury this season . |
| 26 | Royal Cedar , trained by John McConnochie , who has taken him over from the now retired Mercy Rimell , is another who is perfectly at home on fast ground , winning here over three and a half miles and at Newbury this season . |
| 27 | Full day trips include a drive along the magnificent High Alpine Grossglockner Road , where you will see the longest glacier in the eastern Alps the Pasterze , which is over five and a half miles long . |
| 28 | Rusch de Farges , an ex-French gelding , won two of his six races last season both in soft ground and put up his best effort when beaten three lengths by Barnbrook Again at levels in the Arlington Chase Final over two and a half miles at Cheltenham last January . |
| 29 | Rusch de Farges , an ex-French gelding , won two of his six races last season both in soft ground and put up his best effort when beaten three lengths by Barnbrook Again at levels in the Arlington Chase Final over two and a half miles at Cheltenham last January . |
| 30 | The second is that from the Cherwell boathouse to the point where the tragedy occurred is a distance of over two and a half miles , including a strenuous portage , and took us nearly an hour . |