Example sentences of "and a [adv] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are just two and a half kilometres of railway in Lesotho . |
| 2 | He pushed the vital button which blasted twelve and a half tons of rock at the ARC Quarry near Colwell , Northumberland . |
| 3 | New pits were sunk at Dare ( 1870 ) and Bwllfa ( 1877 ) : by 1900 the four collieries of the Ocean Company were producing over a million and a half tons of coal annually , and many other pits had also been sunk profitably . |
| 4 | It had , however , collected eight and a half tons of khat , the mild narcotic leaf on which Djibouti feeds like caterpillars on cabbage . |
| 5 | The Basingstoke Canal at Claycart had around three inches of ice which led to the cancellation of the HBCAA Open and there was two and a half inches of ice on the Oxford Canal which led to the scrapping of the Banbury Open . |
| 6 | He spent 12 months of completing the work using four and a half gallons of paint stripper before repainting . |
| 7 | A post-mortem revealed she had one and a half litres of blood in her right lung , which had almost completely collapsed . |
| 8 | Its large terraced gardens formed but a part of six and a half acres of land enclosed on three sides by high walls and locked gates . |
| 9 | Just under two and a half acres of land untouched for centuries is at stake . |
| 10 | Consisting of two and a half acres of glass , two acres of stainless steel cladding and 1,000 tonnes of steel work , the 400 metre long single span terminal roof covers a four level international passenger handling complex . |
| 11 | Ted acted quickly and in time a deal was concluded and he became the owner of one and a half acres of grassland . |