Example sentences of "[adv] two and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With almost as much of an increase in the volume of exports and an even greater one in that of re-exports , ports engaged in foreign trade were , as a group , handling four times as much cargo in 1800 as they had been in 1700 , and perhaps two and a half times as much as in 1750 . |
| 2 | Well only in the last er two years I would think , perhaps two and a half years er had they really started putting double plugs in everywhere instead of single plugs |
| 3 | Only two and a half hours more to go , I told myself , and fixed the old lady with a hard stare that I hoped somehow conveyed to her what pleasure , what deep and lasting pleasure , it would give me to haul her off her seat and push her out the window . |
| 4 | Further south , along the banks of the Yellow River at Lanzhou , there are more communities : also in Yunnan province and in the balmy , almost Mediterranean city of Canton which lies only two and a half hours from Hong Kong on the banks of the Pearl River . |
| 5 | of three to five-year-olds receive pre-school education , and a substantial proportion of them have a school day of only two and a half hours . |
| 6 | The method has been in use since 1977 and requires only two and a half minutes of therapy time , according to reports . |
| 7 | However , the steepness of its banks made it impossible for vehicles to cross except by the bridge at the southern and of the town which , in 1815 , was only two and a half yards wide at its broadest point . |
| 8 | Well I reckon it 's gon na take us three and a half hours to get to the other end , so two and a half hours to it and an hour on it if it 's not too bad and then of course we 've got to go up from there to Ipswich , Woodbridge but it 's dual carriageway all the way now you see . |
| 9 | So two and a half times as much again . |
| 10 | The pleats can be spaced out if preferred , needing approximately two and a half times fullness . |
| 11 | In 1986–87 there were approximately two and a half inmates to one officer . |
| 12 | They got off to a great start when they almost scored after just two and a half minutes , when Jim Magilton fed Lee Nogan , and his left foot shot was brilliantly saved by Eric Torsvale , tipping the ball all round the post for a corner . |
| 13 | The real speed machines here can go from nought to sixty in just two and a half seconds . |
| 14 | The Royal Bank branch opened in the town just two and a half years ago . |
| 15 | Already one running champion had been crowned , the diminutive Portuguese Rosa Mota , winner of the women 's marathon in just under two and a half hours . |
| 16 | Kallicharran took nearly two and a half hours over 34 , while Fredericks was grafting away at the other end . |
| 17 | It is a great pity that not one member of the Liberal Democratic party could be bothered to attend the European Standing Committee this morning , where we debated those matters for nearly two and a half hours . |
| 18 | It was nearly two and a half years since Hamish had walked out on Daisy and she could no longer claim to be madly in love with him , but she missed the presence of a man in her life , and her self-confidence was in tatters . |
| 19 | My children have been quite improperly denied their home , family and friends for nearly two and a half years , and I , and others , have been falsely accused of abusing them . |
| 20 | The tax for a property in the highest band will be about two and a half times that for one in the lowest band . |
| 21 | In August , 1920 , the average cost of a local authority house was £930 , about two and a half times as much as before the war . |
| 22 | The relative risk of an overweight baby becoming an overweight 5-year-old is about two and a half times more than for a normal weight baby . |
| 23 | In , the typical overhead of indexes and related files leads to a final size of about two and a half times the size of the corresponding serial file . |
| 24 | According to it did not seem to make much difference to tax on income differentials , rich peasants were still about two and a half times better off than poor peasants . |
| 25 | The principal floor is raised about two and a half feet . |
| 26 | The boot comprised a squared box covered in thick leather bound at each end with iron , measuring about two and a half feet in length and four inches square at the ends . |
| 27 | Well he 'd got a , the little marker , th well about two and a half feet marker . |
| 28 | The two tanks hold 400,000 gallons of water , which was sufficient in 1916 to last South Holderness for two days but would now last only about two and a half hours . |
| 29 | Er , it 's seven fifty per head coach from Harlow at nine in the morning get back again about five , we intend to beat the rush hour and it 's a conducted tour of Docklands and the city airport with a guide , and also viewing of the visitor 's centre at Docklands , and then about two and a half hours , probably three , to roam around the area yourself . |
| 30 | Apart from the bad weather the golfers and non-golfers in the party had to queue for about two and a half hours for the small car ferry to take them back to the mainland . |