Example sentences of "[noun] two and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nineteen fifty one for the S S F two and a half . |
| 2 | It seemed to me that it was wanting in every detail , but the objective facts are that I was five feet two and a half , weighed eight stone five , and had my fair share of acne . |
| 3 | At forty-one , six feet two and a half inches tall , with the face of a handsome pirate and the body of an athlete in tip-top condition , Jared was worth two of anyone 's looks , and his serenely beautiful blonde wife Mary was no less remarkable . |
| 4 | Mike Cooke took up the sport two and a half years ago . |
| 5 | Montaine 's suicide had taken place two and a half years ago . |
| 6 | Time will tell with Land Rover two and a quarter engines if they are protected with the use of Carbonflo . |
| 7 | The fuel consumption of my 1966 IIA two and a quarter petrol is horrendous and the oil consumption is not much better . |
| 8 | Aha That 's right , it would be somebody of one rung down perhaps from and half a rung down from if you can put that in context I mean is an absolute beginner she knew nothing about this business two and a half years ago |
| 9 | He pointed to experiments in the process two and a half centuries before ( and could , in fact , have gone back to the fifteenth century ) . |
| 10 | I 've gained a great deal of experience these psst two and a half years and I think I could manage a stud farm quite easily now . |
| 11 | They still hoped in 1980 that the Palestinian issue — the demands of Palestinians who lost their homes in what is now Israel — could be dealt with as part of a general Arab–Israeli peace settlement , that the whole two and a half million Palestinian diaspora could be given a lump-sum , once-and-for-all payment of compensation . |
| 12 | We 've been humping away for a whole two and a half pages . |
| 13 | I remind the hon. Gentleman that we are spending on training and enterprise two and a half times as much in real terms as the last Labour Government . |
| 14 | There was a lot more professionalism to his jumping as , travelling strongly throughout , the top weight only had to be shaken up after the last to beat previous winner Wellknown Character two and a half lengths . |
| 15 | This image of the male owes its origin to the writings of the great historian Herodotus , following his visit to ancient Egypt two and a half thousand years ago . |
| 16 | ‘ We believe that the British Government must do more to oppose the job discrimination that has created unemployment levels two and a half times higher for Catholic workers than Protestant workers . |
| 17 | It consists of an upright cylinder containing a twelve-inch piston with rod two and a half inches in diameter . |
| 18 | To carry that would need a train two and a half million miles long . |
| 19 | ‘ One of the things that struck me as an outsider , coming into the firm two and a half years ago , was that there was no accountability , ’ recalls Mel Smaje . |
| 20 | An exhibition including the Irises and six other Impressionist works has travelled round the capital cities of Austrlia over the past two and a half months , ending in Perth . |
| 21 | Experience in the past two and a half years has shown both the general effectiveness of such schemes and the need for a much wider extension of them . |
| 22 | Fund raising for the £130,000 project had , said Mr. Kirby ‘ been an up-hill struggle ’ over the past two and a half years , but the end was now in sight . |
| 23 | I take this opportunity to pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for all the work that he has done in the past two and a half years to improve the future and administration of Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | However , it has surely been to the mutual advantage of the people of Scotland and England that we have had that union for the past two and a half centuries . |
| 25 | She has been a member of the Finance Committee for the past two and a half years and has taken a great interest in the Society 's financial affairs . |
| 26 | Back on board , we advanced our watches two and a half hours to Central Standard Time . |
| 27 | Mr Heneaghan said one of the reasons behind the move to raise new capital was because the board could see PCI , which now has monthly billings of $2 million against $30,000 two and a half years ago , doubling in size this year . |
| 28 | Two days later seventeen Highland officers , held prisoner at Culloden House ( where the Prince slept the night before the battle ) , were murdered : Cumberland lost five hundred men : the Jacobites two and a half times as many . |
| 29 | Mr Joe Mukwala , aged 32 , was sent to the Cummins engineering plant on the Yarm Road Industrial Estate by the African National Congress two and a half years ago . |
| 30 | Famous for its marketing campaign that guaranteed bug-free software — if you found a bug you could claim a VW Beetle from the company — Ready Systems embarked on an ambitious project two and a half years ago to build a completely new tool suite . |