Example sentences of "and a [det] [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As powerless as the train , we sat for three and a half hours in the dark — key phrase , that — before a locomotive of more elderly years arrived from Newcastle to give us a croggy . |
| 2 | ‘ We had never realised what hard work is actually involved in producing a programme of this kind and , with the added pressure of only five and a half hours in the city , we had our work cut out . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In her two and a half years in the Yemen , TRACY THOMPSON finds an almost unspoilt land to sketch , paint , and immortalise . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're in a bizarre situation , are n't we , with me having access to some of the files and a few contacts in the Service and you doing the interrogations ? ’ |
| 6 | It is difficult to characterize such relations as ‘ capitalist ’ , or to regard them as oppressive : most of the rich men of the Zuwaya managed their businesses in this way , getting a good return on money laid out , but creating wealth for poorer fellow tribesmen and a few others in the process . |
| 7 | Only northeast Scotland , parts of the southern Uplands and a few areas in the southwest receive less than 10kg/S/ha a year , and in the 1970s deposition was higher . |