Example sentences of "[vb pp] two and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So by the end of the day , I was like , look I 've come all this way , which was n't totally true , but I said , look I 've come all this way , the bloke arranged that he would meet us at this time , and he 's not here , and like , you know , I 've come two and a half hours in the car , and I 've got ta drive home again , and we were gon na have a look at the house . |
| 2 | He showed the notarised notebooks of April 1986 demonstrating the range of materials , including not just palladium but several other metals , that was being used two and a half years before they learned of the work by Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 3 | You 've Milvia 's left you and awful time cos she talked for so long , you 've got two and a half minutes . |
| 4 | ‘ The flats were flooded two and a half years ago and we were promised that it would never happen again . ’ |
| 5 | By 10.30 he had gone down the full length of the corridor that ran past his office and he had then spent two and a half hours in H3 's laboratory . |
| 6 | My Department 's spending on training and enterprise has increased two and a half times in real terms since 1979 . |
| 7 | The remaining locations should be using the new system by October this year which will then see the completion of a major personnel and data processing project which will have taken two and a half years to plan and implement . |
| 8 | He was given two and a half years custody . |
| 9 | Almost universally , the opinion is that the trial should never have taken place , which is of little comfort to the defendants who , they say , have effectively lost two and a half years of their lives . |
| 10 | The new Lady Waterlane , having drunk three-quarters of a bottle of Bollinger and achieved two and a half orgasms , was well content . |
| 11 | In October this seemingly unbeatable filly went to France for the Prix du Conseil Municipal , and here she met her first defeat , beaten two and a half lengths by the 66–1 outsider Presto . |
| 12 | The difference between the last elected candidate , Annon , ( DUP ) with 5,800 votes and the runner up , Donnelly ( SDLP ) with 5,124 votes , was 676 , which was covered two and a half times by 1,698 non-transferable votes most of which came from NILP and Alliance . |
| 13 | Their first answer has lasted two and a half minutes . |
| 14 | Destroyer USS Lansdowne was ordered two and a half hours later to fire four torpedoes into the side of the stricken carrier . |