Example sentences of "[vb pp] [num] 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 | The executions began at midnight on Saturday and were completed six and a half hours later . |
| 3 | The Graingers began a worldwide hunt for a cure when Helen 's diagnosis was made three and a half years ago . |
| 4 | I just done my dia , done three and a half sides of the diary . |
| 5 | then I turned round and says no you have n't you 've got eight and a half weeks and he has n't he 's got twelve and a half . |
| 6 | The Fire Brigade Union has requested one and a half weeks pay for each year of service , plus the annual bounty payment . |
| 7 | Everyone was in a good mood because not only was it the last day of school today , but everybody had had one and a half days off school already . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | we 've already got four and a half boxes |
| 10 | We 've done a quick calculation of interview sheets that we think we , we need , I need two boxes for Caernarfon , Jan needs three , we 've got four and a half boxes already , we were gon na order two just to be on the same safe , but we 're just looking into erm whether we need , how many we need on the R S I 's on the M sixty three cos we might as well order them all together , save |
| 11 | Yeah , well , no it 's a one day course then I 've got four and a half things af , you know follow on |
| 12 | You 've Milvia 's left you and awful time cos she talked for so long , you 've got two and a half minutes . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's a bit of an aphrodisiac apparently , ’ I explained — ‘ which is tremendously useful when you 've just done a two-and-a-half hour show , driven 45 minutes home , eaten a baked potato the size of a human foot , scrubbed off two layers of greasepaint , nose shading , violet eyeshadow and seemingly permanent mascara , brushed one and a half cans of lacquer off the split ends , flossed the gums , massaged the bridgework , popped the ear plugs over the acupuncture needle , put the airplane mask over the anti-ageing eye cream and — pièce de lack of résistance — applied the ‘ Tonic Bust ’ to prevent anything descending further south during the night . |
| 14 | ‘ The flats were flooded two and a half years ago and we were promised that it would never happen again . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ weighed fifty-nine and a half pounds , measured forty eight inches in height , and gripped about sixty pounds . ’ |
| 16 | I have spent three and a half years in research , leading to a PhD in molecular biology . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Lord Cranborne , son of the sixth Marquess of Salisbury , had sat for the family constituency of south Dorset for eight years : his grandfather , ‘ Bobbety ’ the fifth Marquess , had served eleven and a half years as an MP before joining the peerage and becoming one of the most influential party men in the fifties . |
| 19 | Leading brake manufacturers AP Lockheed calculate riders hit more than 1.5g under braking , which means weight of rider and machine is increased one and a half times . |
| 20 | My Department 's spending on training and enterprise has increased two and a half times in real terms since 1979 . |
| 21 | And that was how I was trained and that way I was trained seven and a half years ago , it has now all changed again . |
| 22 | In early 1986 the Research and Statistics branch of the Inner London Education Authority presented a study which had taken three and a half years to compile , based upon the schoolwork of 2000 pupils in 50 randomly selected primary schools . |
| 23 | ‘ Kykko Bell 's ’ by Mike Powell was awarded nine and a half marks . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He was given two and a half years custody . |
| 26 | It was the day Keith Capon had waited 2 and a half years for . |
| 27 | Its own scheme was implemented three and a half years ago , and now 85 per cent of its 250,000 borrowers pay this way . |
| 28 | Sheila has lost three and a half pounds this week . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The new Lady Waterlane , having drunk three-quarters of a bottle of Bollinger and achieved two and a half orgasms , was well content . |