Example sentences of "seven and a half [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Billy Arjan Singh ( see page 47 ) , one of India 's leading conservationists and tiger authorities , estimates that , allowing for a breeding life of fifteen years , a wild tigress only rears from five to seven and a half cubs . |
2 | And if the form book is to be believed , Nashwan is clearly No. 1 because Ile De Nisky finished seven and a half lengths behind him at Epsom , but got a length nearer to Old Vic at The Curragh . |
3 | And tape goes past the head at about seven and a half inches a second . |
4 | But it was England 's batting which disappointed most of all , especially after Smith had defied the heat and humidity for seven and a half hours to make 128 and both Graeme Hick on Saturday and Alec Stewart yesterday had compiled five half-centuries . |
5 | Surveys have shown that adults sleep an average of seven and a half hours , with a standard deviation in the sample of about one hour . |
6 | Erm I most of the tapes that I 've had in the past have been recorded mono , erm and I 've needed a little doohickey to turn the erm output into mono as well cos it 's awfully off-putting spending seven and a half hours with the stuff coming in through one ear only . |
7 | The 1908 Act currently limits the shift length for underground miners to seven and a half hours . |
8 | At 10 o'clock when the Division bell goes , the House will have been sitting for seven and a half hours , from prayers through questions , statements and this debate . |
9 | Three seven an Yeah , seven and a half hours . |
10 | When Dick 's lads are down to seven and a half hours which they are in the erm summertime , I mean we s the lads 'll come in I mean we ca n't pull them off now , but those lads 'll come in and clean up . |
11 | Seven days , thirty nine hours , thirty seven and a half hours . |
12 | Half past six , half past seven , half past eight , half past nine , half past ten , half past eleven , half past twelve , half past one you 're talking seven and a half hours . |
13 | that 's seven and a half hours ! |
14 | Fair comment , but this week she was on holiday , did n't stop her and going and leaving them poor dogs in there barking their heads off and crying , for seven and a half hours did it ? |
15 | A study done by Edwin Colbert and his colleagues showed that a tiny 50 gramme ( 1.76 oz ) alligator heated up 1 °C every minute and a half from the Sun , while a large alligator some 260 times bigger took seven and a half minutes . |
16 | Yet the two earliest recordings of the movement , by the celebrated disciples Willem Mengelberg ( 1926 ) and Bruno Walter ( 1938 ) , average seven and a half minutes ' duration . |
17 | Regarding Mahler 's own tempo , Kaplan cites a timing of seven and a half minutes written into the score that he probably used at the première , as well as the timing of seven minutes written by a player into a double-bass part used at Mahler 's last performance of the Adagietto , in St Petersburg in 1907 . |
18 | In determining how much can be achieved in 15 minutes , consideration is taken of the time to store/restore and the time to verify , and equal durations of seven and a half minutes are allocated to these phases . |
19 | Okay we now have seven and a half minutes on affiliation other groups . |
20 | And with seven and a half minutes of injury time Milton hung on to their slender lead ; final score here at Bishops Cleve was Bishops Cleve nil , Milton United one . |
21 | ‘ Her name 's Catherine , and she weighed seven and a half pounds , ’ Bill put in , intensely proud . |
22 | It 's now been seven and a half weeks since our five guinea pigs began their search for a healthy lifestyle . |
23 | About seven and a half acres . |
24 | LIQUIDATORS of the Isle of Man Savings and Investment Bank , which crashed seven and a half years ago with debts of £42.4m , said last night they would be paying more than 10p in the pound to the 4,000 mainly small investors who lost money . |
25 | Hinkley Point A , for example , even with the benefit of the ‘ mechanized army ’ so lyrically portrayed by The Times correspondent , took seven and a half years to build instead of its projected five , and went about 25 per cent over budget ( £34 million ) . |
26 | It was sold about seven and a half years ago to its US distributors . |
27 | And that was how I was trained and that way I was trained seven and a half years ago , it has now all changed again . |
28 | I personally , in all the cases I 've dealt with , which is seven and a half years , have only ever really gone to magistrates court but I 've got two cases going to crown court soon , but it 's exceptionally hard and to answer your question , I actually have never fou never got anyone to go to prison yet . |
29 | I do n't trust them and I have n't for the seven and a half years I 've been inside jail . |
30 | The World Council Churches on this occasion reviewed the work accomplished during the seven and a half years since the last assembly in Vancouver in Canada . |