Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mr. Taylor : As many of the laws that used to be made in the House of Commons are now made by the Council of Ministers , and as we can discuss its decisions for only one and a half hours after 10 o'clock at night , does the Lord President agree that this makes nonsense of democracy and deprives the public of the knowledge of what is going on ? |
| 32 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that a significant number of my right hon. and hon. Friends are bitterly disappointed that during today 's Consolidated Fund Bill debate only one and a half hours have been allocated to discussing pension funds ? |
| 33 | Mr for the defendant effectively accepts that , but says that having regard to Mr er undoubted success in regard to provision of one to one assistance in relation to other children , some of whom are less disabled than Paul , that I should try and look to local authority will provide thirty hours assistance or thereabouts after say eighteen months and that therefore in this regard the defendant should pay for only one and a half years of er enabler 's time . |
| 34 | It 's only one and a half . |
| 35 | ‘ She has given her final view today and although only 15 and a half , she knows her own mind . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ We can cut it down to three hours , perhaps two and a half . ’ |
| 37 | With almost as much of an increase in the volume of exports and an even greater one in that of re-exports , ports engaged in foreign trade were , as a group , handling four times as much cargo in 1800 as they had been in 1700 , and perhaps two and a half times as much as in 1750 . |
| 38 | Well only in the last er two years I would think , perhaps two and a half years er had they really started putting double plugs in everywhere instead of single plugs |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | He was only four and a half when his father died . |
| 41 | IT took Damien Denny only four and a half ruthlessly one sided minutes to strike a victory note at the Ulster Hall last night . |
| 42 | Asserting that the true level of unemployment measured in the same way as it was in 1979 was four million out of work , he said : ‘ There are now only four and a half million people working in manufacturing industry in Britain , bringing us close to a new economic first — fewer people in work making things than we we will have out of work making nothing . ’ |
| 43 | Cos er there were only four and a half inch divide in brick walls . |
| 44 | that 's how much four and a half ton of costs , just ever so slightly , it 's more about |
| 45 | It 's nine yeah so four and a half . |
| 46 | Only two and a half hours more to go , I told myself , and fixed the old lady with a hard stare that I hoped somehow conveyed to her what pleasure , what deep and lasting pleasure , it would give me to haul her off her seat and push her out the window . |
| 47 | The method has been in use since 1977 and requires only two and a half minutes of therapy time , according to reports . |
| 48 | Further south , along the banks of the Yellow River at Lanzhou , there are more communities : also in Yunnan province and in the balmy , almost Mediterranean city of Canton which lies only two and a half hours from Hong Kong on the banks of the Pearl River . |
| 49 | However , the steepness of its banks made it impossible for vehicles to cross except by the bridge at the southern and of the town which , in 1815 , was only two and a half yards wide at its broadest point . |
| 50 | I wanted to join in , but I was only two and a half , and this was the first time I had been left with people I did n't know . |
| 51 | Birmingham City Centre is only two and a half miles distant and the property is convenient for access to the Midland and National Motorway Networks . |
| 52 | Birmingham City Centre is only two and a half miles away and the property is convenient for access to Midland and National Motorway Networks . |
| 53 | of three to five-year-olds receive pre-school education , and a substantial proportion of them have a school day of only two and a half hours . |
| 54 | It 's only two and a half thousand population and one bus a day in each direction . |
| 55 | I play Elmo and he 's only two and a half so it means I can play like that . |
| 56 | She ca n't half talk , she 's only two and a half but aye and when she sets off that 's it . |
| 57 | So perhaps four and a half hours , if we do n't get held up on the M twenty five , four and a half hours would do so that , if we leave here at two , we could be there , you know , well by seven . |
| 58 | THE FT-SE 100-Share Index fell nearly 50 points by mid-afternoon yesterday and was in imminent danger of dropping below 2,900 before a late rally helped it recover to close at 2,915.9 , down 37.5 on the day , in busy trading . |
| 59 | So two and a half times as much again . |
| 60 | Well I reckon it 's gon na take us three and a half hours to get to the other end , so two and a half hours to it and an hour on it if it 's not too bad and then of course we 've got to go up from there to Ipswich , Woodbridge but it 's dual carriageway all the way now you see . |