Example sentences of "about two and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tax for a property in the highest band will be about two and a half times that for one in the lowest band . |
| 2 | In August , 1920 , the average cost of a local authority house was £930 , about two and a half times as much as before the war . |
| 3 | The relative risk of an overweight baby becoming an overweight 5-year-old is about two and a half times more than for a normal weight baby . |
| 4 | In , the typical overhead of indexes and related files leads to a final size of about two and a half times the size of the corresponding serial file . |
| 5 | According to it did not seem to make much difference to tax on income differentials , rich peasants were still about two and a half times better off than poor peasants . |
| 6 | The principal floor is raised about two and a half feet . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Well he 'd got a , the little marker , th well about two and a half feet marker . |
| 9 | The two tanks hold 400,000 gallons of water , which was sufficient in 1916 to last South Holderness for two days but would now last only about two and a half hours . |
| 10 | Er , it 's seven fifty per head coach from Harlow at nine in the morning get back again about five , we intend to beat the rush hour and it 's a conducted tour of Docklands and the city airport with a guide , and also viewing of the visitor 's centre at Docklands , and then about two and a half hours , probably three , to roam around the area yourself . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It would entail a coach trip of about two and a half hours each way . |
| 13 | Cos it can take apparently about two and a half hours to get into Nottingham from erm some of those areas . |
| 14 | We send out details to the schools each year , and they will book to bring a party of children round for , oh it lasts about two and a half hours altogether , and they will come either for a morning or for an afternoon . |
| 15 | So we that meant , say , that I instead of me being away from the property for about two and a half hours , taking the turf back Caffer Cliss we saved all that time . |
| 16 | I had been employed at Jersey House for about two and a half years when I was approached to see if I might like to do a little cleaning work to earn some overtime . |
| 17 | It was about two and a half years before he wrote anything like it again . |
| 18 | Most conscientious objectors are given four-year sentences which they reduce to about two and a half years by working . |
| 19 | My Lords , for about two and a half years the defendant , Mr. Gary Thomas , made his home with his brother Webster in a council house 29 , Juniper Court , Morris Road , London , E.15 which belonged to and was let by the respondent local authority the Waltham Forest London Borough Council ( ‘ the plaintiffs ’ ) to Webster . |
| 20 | At present , only 18 people in the Health and Safety Executive are working on those regulations , and even though the provisions have been in operation for about two and a half years , fewer than one third of the safety cases have been accepted as being proper working documents . |
| 21 | Er , about two and a half years ago , erm , before that , er , just at college , so this is my first real job selection . |
| 22 | It 's to do with the Government housing policy at national level , but there are certain things we can do , and I remember about two and a half years ago I arranged for a group of people to come and give a seminar to the Housing Committee . |
| 23 | When they just try to entertain , to be stompy dynamic pop punks with a snigger and a scream — and that amounts to about two and a half tracks tonight — they are briefly , brashly terrific . |
| 24 | Now there is a much greater tendency to say if we were able to reduce family size to replacement level , zero population growth , for the developing world about two and a half children per family , by the year two thousand what would the situation look like ? |