Example sentences of "in [num] and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have faced only one Mrs Gould in eleven and a half years shows how much , not how little , television let Mrs Thatcher get away with . |
| 2 | I mean I was in eight and a half hours yesterday , eight hours a day before |
| 3 | A , Diana Rigg , James Bond movie , B , Kathleen Turner , Crimes of Passion , C , Kim Basinger , Basinger in Eight and a Half Weeks |
| 4 | he 'll hit the ground in eight and a half seconds ! |
| 5 | In eight and a half years , Labour under Neil Kinnock has worked miracles in divesting itself of policies which , as well as being fundamentally unpopular , had no obvious connection with our central beliefs . |
| 6 | George won the English championship for the mile and the four miles in 1879 and the same distances at the inaugural Amateur Athletic Association championships , which were open to the world in the following year . |
| 7 | For the first time in 2 and a half centuries , the Rococo Garden at Painswick is dominated by a Gothic screen called an exedra . |
| 8 | ‘ It was the best news I have had in six and a half years . ’ |
| 9 | Under her , there have been 30–35 standing-committees and just over 120 ad hocs in six and a half years . |
| 10 | Both the father and mother have already put in six and a half years of devoted care and certainly physically and perhaps mentally the strains are beginning to tell . |
| 11 | He points to the fact that the Atlantic can now be crossed in three and a half hours as indisputable evidence that the pace has hotted up , but in his view , the next generation will assimilate such changes . |
| 12 | As Zoe Muir found out Jackie Berwick has lost almost a stone in three and a half weeks . |
| 13 | As Nick Gatfield , director of A&R for EMI Records ( UK ) says , ‘ In three and a half years at EMI I have signed only one artist from an unsolicited demo tape . ’ |
| 14 | As we have seen , Attlee accumulated 148 standing and 313 ad hoc groups in six and quarter years , and Churchill 137 and 109 respectively in three and a half years . |
| 15 | They had driven over 1,700 miles in twenty-seven and a half hours , including frontier stops , only to miss it by five minutes . |
| 16 | She asked him to come to her room so as not to overhear any more , and then they went downstairs in an express lift : a glass-and-gilt beetle that hurtled the twenty-eight floors in nine and a half seconds . |
| 17 | This fire officer , however , refused to allow the use of a sizeable proportion of the props , around which the entire show was structured ; and , although the Prince and Princess of Wales were arriving in one and a half hours ' time along with five Cabinet ministers , and the cast would have no time to rehearse without the props they relied upon , he was not to be budged . |
| 18 | East Shropshire Group raised £110 in one and a half hours selling products through the town 's local Amnesty shop . |
| 19 | The actual report is completed in one and a half hours under examination conditions . |
| 20 | Well that 's exactly what I mean , a very good illustration of somebody who makes himself more important by coming in fifteen and a half seconds late , which is not so late for a corporate session , but is late enough to , to make everyone worry and so on in that time . |
| 21 | Instead , he was out first thing next morning for 110 and Gower declared at 300 for 9 , leaving West Indies to make 342 in four and a half hours and twenty overs . |
| 22 | George Kirk , who works in Chemical Plants , battled round in four and a half hours while John Kenny from FDPED finished in three hours 18 minutes . |
| 23 | I 've only had ever about two complaints in four and a half years , and that 's not very bad , that 's only because the filter needed cleaning , mostly . |
| 24 | And for the first time in four and a half centuries … the new head boy is a GIRL ! |
| 25 | In two and a half pages there were seven references to efficiency , five to value for money , four to economies and two each to savings and cost effectiveness . |
| 26 | Of course all I needed was a two-minute sit-down and in two and a half minutes I was not only fully recovered and ready to carry on , I had adrenalin pumping out the top of my hat in anger that my man had left me to die . |
| 27 | As my daughter did on Sunday in two and a half hours . |
| 28 | Over two thirds of Japanese car workers operate in multi-skilled teams , compared with just 10 per cent in the UK , and the land of the risen yen puts in two and a half times as many hours training its new workers in those skills . |
| 29 | In two and a half days we 've had four men under |
| 30 | The confidence of those words confirmed that in two and a half years Neighbours — the show which baffled the critics as its banality won millions of fans around the world — had transformed the shy diffident Kylie into an ambitious young woman . |