Example sentences of "be [adj] and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ones that you see in the book they 're three and a half inches . |
| 2 | The trap with its missing section of beam had been three and a half feet across , and Harry , taking the envelope bait , had gone through its centre . |
| 3 | These are these are three and a half inches wide . |
| 4 | I 'm eight and a half years old and disgusted that my mother has to come with me to see A Hard Day 's Night when usually she just sees me to the edge of the estate and across the main road . |
| 5 | ‘ Considering I 'm eight and a half months pregnant and have n't heard from you for a couple of weeks . |
| 6 | As I 'm six and a half feet tall , it 's difficult to get jeans to fit me . |
| 7 | All these weapons can be lethal and the same tactics must be used against each one : stay out of range of the weapon ; grab anything that equals the odds and extends your own striking range ; and fight back with such determination and intensity that your attacker is either overwhelmed or forced back , allowing you to escape . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yes , it used to be two and a half times the wage and in the long run rather than mess about taking the house off them |
| 10 | But that would be two and a half minutes each , roughly . |
| 11 | The coroner was told that blood alcohol tests after the accident showed Richard had been one and a half times over the legal drink drive limit . |
| 12 | While the reduction in price rises is very welcome — taking us back to where we were three and a half years ago — does my right hon. Friend recognise the irony that , as a result , current interest rates — the price of money — are , in real terms , at an all-time high ? |
| 13 | It was more than two decades since he had taken offence at the term-a term used all the while in court , where the Han were predominant and the few Caucasians treated as honorary Han — yet here , in the Domain , he felt the words incongruous , almost — surprisingly — insulting . |
| 14 | On any day towards the end of the campaign , those who had been very interested in politics just before the campaign opened were one and a half times as likely to read a paper , and twice as likely to watch both BBC-TV and ITV news , as those with no interest in politics ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 15 | We were two and a half hours over guidebook time : so much for the armchair boasts of perfect stamina ! |
| 16 | The average interval between polls would have been four and a half months , and the longest interval eight months . |
| 17 | ‘ It is important to remember that Norwegian blocks are two and a half times as big as those on the UKCS , ’ notes Ritson . |
| 18 | The offer of shares in the group , which was listed on the USM this week , has been two and a half times oversubscribed . |
| 19 | It 's six and a half minutes to six . |
| 20 | Flying time is three and a half hours and there is no time change . |
| 21 | she 's three and a half years older than you . |
| 22 | ‘ Sailing time is fourteen and a half hours away . |
| 23 | That 's five and a half hours at a bit under two knots — say ten miles in round figures . |
| 24 | That 's five and a half hours and we 've got to be there at two |
| 25 | The show is one and a half hours of entertainment for children of all ages . |
| 26 | A pint of beer or a small glass of wine is one unit , and a measure of spirits is one and a half units . |
| 27 | In rural Third World communities the average transit time is one and a half days ; in Western countries it is about three days in young healthy adults ; among the elderly it is often over two weeks . |
| 28 | The time now is nine and a half minutes past seven . |
| 29 | The time now is nine and a half minutes past eight . |
| 30 | It 's one and a half years |