Example sentences of "to [num] and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Indonesia , in October 1990 , post-graduate researcher Bonar Tigor Naipospos was sentenced to eight and a half years ' imprisonment because he ‘ attempted to undermine Indonesian state ideology ’ through participation in a university study group and distributing banned literature . |
| 2 | A continuous recording of both sodium concentration ( mV ) and pH was obtained ( at intervals of two seconds ) for up to three and a half hours ( median value=two hours 27 minutes , range from 56 minutes to 3 hours 32 minutes ) . |
| 3 | It 's best to do these on the track , but if one is not available , you can do repeats of two and a half to three and a half minutes on the road . |
| 4 | The tunnelling of Phase 1 of the project from the gorge site is scheduled to take three years to three and a half years to complete . |
| 5 | He was jailed for five years for manslaughter but today it was reduced to three and a half years . |
| 6 | This person 's had to three and a half weeks . |
| 7 | The duration of the very short-term financing which central banks could draw through the EMCF was increased to three and a half months ( an increase of one month ) . |
| 8 | Today at the Court of Appeal his sentence was reduced to 3 and a half years . |
| 9 | Reduce sugar on cereal to one and a half teaspoons . |
| 10 | The two areas did differ in the level of statutory service provision ; in Ipswich , home help input was available only two or three days a week for up to one and a half hours at a time , and a financial assessment and payment for home help had recently been introduced . |
| 11 | The large steam chamber has a one litre capacity , allowing up to one and a half hours of continuous ironing with three times more steam per minute than a conventional iron . |
| 12 | Each audiotaped session lasted between one to one and a half hours . |
| 13 | Now discussion is limited normally to one and a half hours and even that possibility disappears if the Commons has other urgent business that requires a sitting to be extended beyond the normal closure at 10 p.m . |
| 14 | Debate is limited to one and a half hours . |
| 15 | It needs fabric fullness of two and a quarter to two and a half times the track length , depending on the thickness of the fabric . |
| 16 | The amount of fabric fullness required is variable and although a minimum of twice the length of the curtain fixture is satisfactory , two and a quarter to two and a half times fullness is preferable to achieve a well-balanced , attractive pleating arrangement . |
| 17 | contribution , even though it is costing up to two and a half times more to collect than the revenue raised . |
| 18 | After completing your continuation training you will be drafted to a seagoing vessel for up to two and a half years . |
| 19 | Kenneth Tindall , 20 , of Woodvale Road , Grove Hill , was sentenced to two and a half years ' custody . |
| 20 | A Banbury man known as Psycho has been sentenced to two and a half years in custody for an unprovoked knife attack on a man out walking his dog . |
| 21 | I could get used to two and a half days at school a week instead of five ! |
| 22 | It is given over to writing between 2,000 and 2,500 words and it takes from three to four and a half hours to do . |
| 23 | A Nottingham body builder who subjected his girl friend to a campaign of sadistic mistreatment that included an attack with a hot iron had a three year jail sentence increased to four and a half years today . |
| 24 | A terrific finish to four and a half miles of the world 's greatest steeplechase . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The 1908 Act currently limits the shift length for underground miners to seven and a half hours . |
| 27 | 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 . |