Example sentences of "nine and [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 He was a big boy , weighing nine and a half pounds at birth .
2 The mile took nine and a half minutes , at the end of which my dead weight pulled me , wheezing and red-faced , into an armchair .
3 ‘ Excellent : nine and a half pounds of chocolate and a pair of socks . ’
4 ‘ Bevna Vista ’ by Angela Algar received nine and a half marks .
5 ‘ Kykko Bell 's ’ by Mike Powell was awarded nine and a half marks .
6 She has not worked for nine and a half years , since she gave up a clerical post in accounts with a large company to have her first child .
7 The Silurian Way is a nine and a half mile route which takes you round the central area of the forest reaching its high point at Carron Crag at 1,031ft .
8 The man was relaxed and rested and Holly felt the tiredness brush through his mind and for nine and a half hours he had worked in the Factory at the lathe that fashioned chairs ' legs .
9 At the moment it is a nine and a half year loan and then the pictures leave .
10 What is going to happen after the nine and a half years ?
11 The Thyssen museum opened in Madrid on 9th of last month to fairly general self-congratulation in the Spanish newspapers , qualified by the hope that the paintings would remain there at the end of the nine and a half years loan/rental period ( The Art Newspaper No. 21 , Oct 1992 , pp.1 , 6 ) .
12 Nine and a half hours later she rang David Rosen at his home .
13 She asked him to come to her room so as not to overhear any more , and then they went downstairs in an express lift : a glass-and-gilt beetle that hurtled the twenty-eight floors in nine and a half seconds .
14 The ones that I did two years ago , which are giving a return of something about er nine to nine and a half percent a year , plus the potential for return in capital , will actually be very good .
15 And er the half hour was er erm we had nine and a half five days , that was er from eight till half past five I do n't know but it was fifty-two and a half hours , from eight till half-past twelve on a Saturday and er
16 Because er as far as I 'd concerned I 'd never heard of air raids before hand you know , know I had n't and I was , as I say , I was only nine and a half I know but er , I did use to speak to a lot more people than most , er lads of that age did like , you know .
17 I spent the past nine and a half years doing everything I can to keep everything about my daughter secret .
18 The time now is nine and a half minutes past seven .
19 The time now is nine and a half minutes past eight .
20 It is going to be nine and a half times the footprint of Hambleton three and a half times the footprint of Brayton Bath it will tower in its mass beside them and it is totally unreasonable and wrong for anybody to describe it as merely of local concern .
21 After the Corporate Relations ’ press officer 's wedding in August , Emma and new husband Tim Godfrey will jet off on the nine and a half hour flight from Heathrow to Grand Cayman via Miami .
22 The campaign to bring Blair Peach 's murderer to justice and the demand for a full public inquiry into the events of ‘ 79 has been mounted for nine and a half years by the Friends of Blair Peach Committee .
23 ‘ OK , nine and a half ponies Nine fifty an ounce . ’
24 What choice are you giving the nine and a half thousand people on our Council waiting list ?
25 Similar exercises have been undertaken by other er governments and there 's a tremendous contrast with the way those governments have actually sought to do this , with our own government , erm no publicity whatsoever has appeared yet and again I offer the minister the chance to tell us at some later point , what the government is prepared to do to exert itself on this matter and to tell us indeed whether it wants people to register erm it is n't particularly clear whether in fact this is part of er some idea that the government has that people should n't register and I think that the minister needs to be very clear about this so that people get the message outside , because nine and a half million people did n't vote , even in the last general election .
26 We might as well be councillor and actually sort of erm stated the problem to which it is very difficult to find a solution and that problem is how do you keep council rents below nine and a half percent , that is a problem to which councillor does not have a solution .
27 Yes , look I 'm sorry we 've got to raise rents by nine and a half percent .
28 with the ninety three , four budget , of three hundred and forty two and a half million and er through the addition of certain growth items most notably that requires the demography for the additional pupil numbers we establish a base resource budget there of three hundred and fifty nine and a half million .
29 The government is giving back nine and a half million pounds to Oxford City Council , after admitting a mistake in the calculations for the housing budget .
30 It 's actually forty is it forty nine and a half hours it 'll be ?
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