Example sentences of "and a [det] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Excellent : nine and a half pounds of chocolate and a pair of socks . ’ |
| 2 | The method has been in use since 1977 and requires only two and a half minutes of therapy time , according to reports . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The show is one and a half hours of entertainment for children of all ages . |
| 5 | After two and a half hours of deliberation , they awarded damages against The Sun , editor Kelvin MacKenzie and freelance journalist Ken Irwin . |
| 6 | three and a half hours of work . |
| 7 | Subdued , tired , and recovering from two and a half hours of surgery Frankie Vaughan still knew how to make an entrance . |
| 8 | They found that much of the large negative basis in the first one and a half hours of trading was due to the use of stale prices from Friday 16 October in computing the index . |
| 9 | BARB 's research shows that the average individual watches around three and a half hours of television per day ( and has done so for at least the last 10 years ) , just over half of this being ITV . |
| 10 | This is at the comparatively small cost of three hours therapy time per individual if there are two therapists running a group ( one and a half hours of therapy time per individual if there is one therapist ) . |
| 11 | Coat 225g/8oz mixed nuts and 50g/2oz pumpkin seeds in 25g/1oz melted butter , one and a half teaspoons of paprika , one teaspoon of ground cumin , half a teaspoon of ground allspice and quarter of a teaspoon of salt . |
| 12 | Three and a half tonnes of home made explosives were inside , needing only seconds to prime . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's a bit of an aphrodisiac apparently , ’ I explained — ‘ which is tremendously useful when you 've just done a two-and-a-half hour show , driven 45 minutes home , eaten a baked potato the size of a human foot , scrubbed off two layers of greasepaint , nose shading , violet eyeshadow and seemingly permanent mascara , brushed one and a half cans of lacquer off the split ends , flossed the gums , massaged the bridgework , popped the ear plugs over the acupuncture needle , put the airplane mask over the anti-ageing eye cream and — pièce de lack of résistance — applied the ‘ Tonic Bust ’ to prevent anything descending further south during the night . |
| 14 | It was the only institution which was able to keep alive the sense of national identity during three and a half centuries of subjugation to foreign rule , which stretched between the fall of Smederovo in 1459 and the revolt of Karadjordje in 1804 . |
| 15 | After four and a half months of deliberation , the committee presented its report . |
| 16 | Immediately before the summer recess , and as one of his last acts before his two and a half months of asylum , Baldwin had devoted two days to receiving an almost unprecedented deputation on the subject . |
| 17 | They 'll produce design drawings and thirty percent estimates er one and a half miles of train line . |
| 18 | Had she not already decided that five and a half years of girlhood dreams bore little resemblance to the harsh warrior beside her ? |
| 19 | Five years ago he began seeing a psychotherapist , but stopped after two and a half years of treatment . |
| 20 | When we five and a half years of life of the coral from Isabella Island in the Galapagos the remarkable thing about this coral record is that it represents nearly three hundred and eighty years of continuous coral growth . |
| 21 | And Brian Keenan 's return after four and a half years of captivity , carried this message for western governments : |
| 22 | Over two and a half years of research and development have gone into Aldercare Ltd 's Abacus Practice Management package , and chartered accountants have been involved at every step . |
| 23 | The father of the little boy concerned , who is now approaching six and a half years of age , seeks an order of the court in this country that the defendant ( the child 's mother ) shall return the child to the jurisdiction of the court in Ontario , which is in fact presently seized of custody applications relating to the child in the context of divorce proceedings between the father and the mother . |
| 24 | Only in exceptional circumstances will the faculty offer places to applicants who will be less than seventeen and a half years of age at the time of commencing their studies . |
| 25 | After four and a half years of war involving food and clothes rationing , and bombing , and losing friends , the sight of these large , prosperous , untouched-by-anything foreigners parading round the streets , chatting up anything in skirts , was profoundly irritating . |
| 26 | It gave him four and a half years of power without full responsibility — although he no doubt did not consider that this placed him in the harlot class . |
| 27 | The meagre rations — two lumps of meat and a few strands of pasta in thin soup — were to last them both for the whole day . |
| 28 | It can not be very comfortable , for it consists merely of an uneven depression on top of the stone wall , barely softened by dust and a few wisps of hay . |
| 29 | As a deep rumbling and a few wisps of smoke were produced by the yacht , he turned back to the Doctor . |
| 30 | So I made myself at home at the Golden Turk ; the two-faced landlord greeted me civilly enough , providing a chamber on the second floor with a pallet bed and a few sticks of furniture . |