Example sentences of "one and [art] [det] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seventy Mothers ' Clubs distributed 2,000 questionnaires , which showed that the average worker in that part of São Paulo earned one and a half minimum salaries , which was not sufficient to cover costs of food , rent , mortgage of land payments , clothing , transport , medicine , school equipment , electricity and water for their families . |
| 2 | Britain 's smallest house is for sale at one and a half thousand pounds I 'll buy it |
| 3 | It 's that in the period April ninety one to September ninety one there has been under recovery of VAT of nearly half a million pounds , will wait until they recover it of which two er twenty six thousand is the true result of the South West Region of twenty six thousand pounds just over twenty one and a half thousand pounds related to job club fees , with all staff responsible for organising rosters even sure they are around the content of appendix one , section four , and that that correctly identified in cages , Margaret Cornwall . |
| 4 | An Oxfordshire construction company has been fined more than one and a half thousand pounds for polluting the River Wray . |
| 5 | I think that it is going to have a good effect on improving trading for the better parks and attractions in this country and as you know I think , Alton Towers is the leading er , park of its kind in this country , Chessington which we also own is the second er , leading park , one and a half million visitors a year , Alton Towers approximately two million visitors a year in this country . |
| 6 | In nineteen ninety one , arrears totalling one and a half million pounds was due to those twelve thousand eight hundred and twelve workers . |
| 7 | I 'd just like to make two or three points first of all the exchange factor which Frank touched upon when , when talking about profits you probably all totally familiar but I have forgotten quite how much the dollar has strengthened recently beginning of the year it was nearly two dollars and the result of that is that for the erm first half as a whole the impact of er exchange translation was adverse for our profits compared with last year to the tune of about one and a half million pounds . |
| 8 | These may be trying times for estate agents but Croome Court 's still expected to go for one and a half million pounds |
| 9 | Count Nikolai Tolstoy , who was ordered to pay record libel damages of one and a half million pounds , is fighting in the High court to have the debt cancelled . |
| 10 | Two and a half years ago , he faced having to pay record libel damages of one and a half million pounds . |
| 11 | The one and a half million pounds damages has risen with interest and costs to two million pounds . |
| 12 | The High Court has ruled that the historian from Oxfordshire will still have to pay Lord Aldington one and a half million pounds for allegations he made about his war record . |
| 13 | It 's budget — around one and a half million pounds a year . |
| 14 | It cost one and a half million pounds — but the hospital says it 's money well spent . |
| 15 | A former Ministry of Defence worker , has been found guilty of accepting one and a half million pounds in backhanders from arms companies , in what 's thought to be the biggest ever corruption case . |
| 16 | We are one and a half million pounds better off from that , and the compulsory redundancy problem has gone erm I 'd have to explain the list to you , though , to give a proper context , and maybe that 's what I should |
| 17 | I think it 's more productive to be polite , ’ ) whose primary aim was to secure the future of the rainforest in an area stretching from the Heath Sanctuary on the Bolivian border up to and including Manu and the Tambopata Reserves : an area of one and a half million hectares , the size of Switzerland . |
| 18 | Foreign Extra Stout continues to do well : in Jamaica sales volume has doubled since 1990 to over one and a half million cases . |
| 19 | Foreign Extra Stout ( FES ) retains its pre-eminent position within the Guinness beer portfolio Brewed in Dublin , the consistent quality and unique taste of FES ensures its success with consumers the world over In Jamaica , for example , sales volume has doubled since 1990 to over one and a half million cases . |
| 20 | The estuaries are part of the East Atlantic Flyway , a vital migration path between the Arctic and the southern hemishphere , which is used by one and a half million waders and half a million waterfowl . |
| 21 | Within a week , one and a half million men , with abundant supplies , were in position for a massed attack . |
| 22 | In a country of around 800 million , with over one and a half million police officers and nearly 1,200 gaols ( not to mention a Draconian penal code drafted by the British in 1860 ) , only about 60,000 people are serving sentences of imprisonment at any one time . |
| 23 | saying one and a half million votes . |
| 24 | One and a half million saves a six year old little boy 's life in a London hospital . |
| 25 | In the Gomel'sk workshops in Belorussia 450 railway staff collected one and a half million roubles in order to start up their own social insurance scheme for lack of an adequate state system . |
| 26 | One and a half million trees have now replaced the desolation on the valley floor . |
| 27 | Over one and a half million pensioners ( 15% ) , claimed the means tested top up Income Support in 1989–90 , and it is estimated that a further 0.9 million were eligible , but did not claim . |
| 28 | Around one and a half million dollars . |
| 29 | If one goes to the slightly higher figure , which would be more appropriate for inner suburban development , then instead of my cut out for the Land Ranger map , for one and a half square kilometres , one hundred and fifty hectares , one can take the new ten penny piece . |
| 30 | Swessex , a bastard county created by the iniquitous reorganization of local government in the early ‘ seventies , comprised one and a half old counties knocked together because it looked neater that way . |