Example sentences of "almost two [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A gain of 400 in the first amplifier/filter will then produce an output of almost two and a half volts from the total earth 's field vector , avoiding overload and permitting a peak-to-peak measurement by rotating the core . |
| 2 | Faith has to return to work ; she had been away for almost two and a half months , but Continental Airlines generously sent Tim to Kupang to see if he could help . |
| 3 | This trend continued in succeeding years so that during the three-quarters of a century between the first ( 1719 ) and the fifth ( 1795 ) official censuses , the Russian population of Siberia increased by almost two and a half times , from 169,000 adult males to 412,000 , at a time when the population of the empire as a whole less than doubled . |
| 4 | Erm the cost of sales is two and a half million pounds which gives us a gross profit of almost two and a half million pounds . |
| 5 | In other words users of all types , from motor-cyclists to the owners of the heaviest vehicles , pay almost two and a half times as much in taxes as is spent on all road costs from building , maintenance and signs , right down to the provision of police , traffic wardens and even grass cutting and hedge-trimming of the verges . |