Example sentences of "four and [art] [det] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japanese , it 's a massive one , one er , it 's a thirty thousand gallon erm pond and it 's got , and it goes through a filter box and it 's four and a half tons of erm four and a half tons and that is a lot of |
| 2 | Life is hectic , time is precious enough , without having to cope with unwanted visitors staying four and a half hours beyond their welcome . |
| 3 | After about four and a half hours of driving , Sadler calculated that they were one mile away from the target , although there was absolutely nothing to see . |
| 4 | Geoff Dowling , race secretary and one-time competitor ( but unfortunately never winner ) , told me that five and a half hours was reasonable but the first-class walkers could be expected about four and a half hours after the start . |
| 5 | She did not go up to London to see her lover without first drawing fifteen pounds out of her bank account , and thinking up a convincing story to tell her parents , and packing a good book to read on the train ( it was U.S.A. by John dos Passos , and she had read four and a half pages of it before she had been interrupted by her neighbour 's knee ) , and looking up her lover 's address in the A to Z. |
| 6 | Boeing jetliners touch down every four and a half seconds of every day . |
| 7 | ‘ Tides carrying us , we 're still making about four and a half knots over the ground . |
| 8 | A terrific finish to four and a half miles of the world 's greatest steeplechase . |
| 9 | Today no-one — with the possible exception of members of his family - seriously believes that Wallenberg is still alive somewhere in what is left of the Gulag Archipelago , four and a half years into perestroika . |
| 10 | We were then transferred to the Gendarmerie Royale , we stayed for one year in a prison camp in Rabat , then four and a half years at the headquarters of the Gendarmerie in Rabat , our hands tied day and night from 13 July , 1975 to 19 December , 1979 . |
| 11 | Erm , I 'd like to welcome you to the Industrial Training Board , I spent about four and a half years with training scheme , and I actually originated in er , engineering , so er , I 've got a long track record , perhaps of training and er , an even long track record working , so I wo n't give you too hard a time . |
| 12 | ( I was four and a half years on the Western Front as a stretcher bearer ) and only one of the worst cases who had it and lived through it . |
| 13 | A Glasgow man 's been jailed for a total of four and a half years for blackmailing gay businessmen . |
| 14 | A Glasgow man 's been jailed for four and a half years for blackmailing gay businessmen . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And Brian Keenan 's return after four and a half years of captivity , carried this message for western governments : |
| 18 | The time of proving himself was over ; John Cranko now held an official and important post in the Sadler 's Wells organization , only four and a half years after arriving in Britain as a student at the Sadler 's Wells school . |
| 19 | Anthony from was found guilty of the manslaughter of a seven year old girl in ninety eighty six , and served four and a half years in prison . |
| 20 | Mr Keenan was speaking during a news conference in Dublin in which he gave a moving account of his four and a half years in captivity . |
| 21 | Whichever way his tastes lie , and whatever the capacity of his purse and his bookshelves , it is certain that no other single work offers to the collector such variety of choice , experience and discovery as four and a half centuries of the book of which Lord Chief Justice Sir Matthew Hale ( 1609–76 ) wrote to one of his sons who had just recovered from smallpox : |
| 22 | Not bad for four and a half months of the University 's time , I suppose . |
| 23 | After four and a half months of deliberation , the committee presented its report . |
| 24 | I spent the next four and a half months in Kuwait and Iraq as part of Saddam Hussein 's human shield , with nothing except my hand luggage and the clothes ( and shoes ) that I was wearing when the flight left London . |
| 25 | Mr Nichol , now 24 , was charged in February last year and spent four and a half months in custody before being released on bail . |
| 26 | He spent a total of four and a half months in custody for a crime he did not commit . |