Example sentences of "two [conj] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October this seemingly unbeatable filly went to France for the Prix du Conseil Municipal , and here she met her first defeat , beaten two and a half lengths by the 66–1 outsider Presto . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought I 'd done well by managing to last two and a half minutes without coming up for air he said . ’ |
| 3 | Woodmill controlled the game for much of the first half but could not get through the Meridian defence and it was n't until two and a half minutes into the second half that the deadlock was finally broken . |
| 4 | The method has been in use since 1977 and requires only two and a half minutes of therapy time , according to reports . |
| 5 | It 's two and a half minutes to six o'clock . |
| 6 | Within hours of his arrival , Coleridge was listening to Wordsworth recite a substantial new poem called ‘ The Ruined Cottage ’ ; after tea Coleridge replied with two and a half acts of Osorio , and in the morning followed the whole of The Borderers , Wordsworth 's north country tragedy . |
| 7 | The fracture of the right femur healed in six weeks with two and a half inches of shortening . |
| 8 | The launderette was two and a half blocks from the house ; probably less than three hundred yards . |
| 9 | The boot comprised a squared box covered in thick leather bound at each end with iron , measuring about two and a half feet in length and four inches square at the ends . |
| 10 | Situated on the Croft Castle Estate in Herefordshire the oak measures forty two and a half feet around its trunk . |
| 11 | After two and a half hours at the leisure centre , Joanna was taken to a police station in Hemel Hempstead . |
| 12 | We were two and a half hours over guidebook time : so much for the armchair boasts of perfect stamina ! |
| 13 | They did n't need to take two and a half hours over it . |
| 14 | Five days to learn two and a half hours of ‘ Tubular Bells ’ and other pretty involved stuff . |
| 15 | After two and a half hours of deliberation , they awarded damages against The Sun , editor Kelvin MacKenzie and freelance journalist Ken Irwin . |
| 16 | Star of many a West End musical success , Bonnie Langford dances her way through two and a half hours of showstopping song and dance . |
| 17 | Subdued , tired , and recovering from two and a half hours of surgery Frankie Vaughan still knew how to make an entrance . |
| 18 | Apart from the bad weather the golfers and non-golfers in the party had to queue for about two and a half hours for the small car ferry to take them back to the mainland . |
| 19 | Two and a half hours for setup at twenty eight pounds an hour . |
| 20 | Will my hon. Friend commend as compulsory reading part of our proceedings in Committee when for the first time hon. Members listened for two or two and a half hours to — |
| 21 | Back on board , we advanced our watches two and a half hours to Central Standard Time . |
| 22 | Well I reckon it 's gon na take us three and a half hours to get to the other end , so two and a half hours to it and an hour on it if it 's not too bad and then of course we 've got to go up from there to Ipswich , Woodbridge but it 's dual carriageway all the way now you see . |
| 23 | Taff decided to do the first two and a half hours on the gun so I crawled to the back of the trench , curled up and immediately dropped off to sleep . |
| 24 | Eight miles further on were Mick and Paddy — I had two and a half hours before sunset to reach them . |
| 25 | They had been at it for over two and a half hours before the searchlight finally picked out the slumped body in the yard of an abandoned farm at over a thousand metres on the slopes of Mount Guffone . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Before the exhibition opened on Monday , 11 March last , Mr Isherwood , ARPS , APAGB , an official appointed by the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain , spent two and a half hours in Chapman Gallery carefully weighing and considering before he settled on the winners . |
| 28 | And I had to spend a whole hour in a meeting not not an hour , two and a half hours in a |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Further south , along the banks of the Yellow River at Lanzhou , there are more communities : also in Yunnan province and in the balmy , almost Mediterranean city of Canton which lies only two and a half hours from Hong Kong on the banks of the Pearl River . |