Example sentences of "and a [det] yards " in BNC.
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| 1 | The working day was ten hours long , sometimes starting at 3 am , and the expected rate of completion was one and a half yards [ 1.4 m ] a day , though , with extra inducements two yards [ 1.8 m ] or even more could be achieved . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Four and a half yards , which you could tackle as a lad and then they er paid you for what you did . |
| 4 | They were supposed to be doing me a favour , giving me that work , four and a half yards . |
| 5 | The new motion did n't get Kite much more distance — about five and a half yards , on average — but it did contribute to his rising from 29th on Tour in hitting greens in regulation to third . |
| 6 | I suppose about one and a half yards , perhaps not that , square and in the corner there was what they called , what we had the copper for boiling the clothes , make it with small coal and , and coal and wood and paper and boil the water and , and my mother used to do the washing there and we had a big old mangle with wooden rollers out in the back yard , that was always out in the back yard . |
| 7 | In a prison-camp the world you wanted to get to was visible all the time and , although you did not live in it , you knew that it was only a matter of some barbed wire and a few yards away . |
| 8 | It was about a mile from the village , set back from the road , with tall iron gates , securely locked , at the entrance , and a few yards inside them a lodge . |
| 9 | Sadly , as television interviews all too clearly show , most footballers from other teams are monosyllabic in speech and a few yards short of a goal in the brain department . |
| 10 | The figure passed , breathing hard , and a few yards ahead turned in at one of the gates . |
| 11 | ( 55 ) I found a bottle with which I made numerous marks on the ground surrounding our tents and a few yards into the jungle , as far as I dared venture . |