Example sentences of "[adv] two [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We can cut it down to three hours , perhaps two and a half . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The method has been in use since 1977 and requires only two and a half minutes of therapy time , according to reports . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Birmingham City Centre is only two and a half miles away and the property is convenient for access to Midland and National Motorway Networks . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It 's only two and a half thousand population and one bus a day in each direction . |
| 13 | I play Elmo and he 's only two and a half so it means I can play like that . |
| 14 | She ca n't half talk , she 's only two and a half but aye and when she sets off that 's it . |
| 15 | Half past eleven at night they went and knocked Wendy 's door and says can you give me some photos of your daughter and there were two girls and they thought that they were the only two and the woman said that the only two girls I know that are alike them , their age group , erm , er are Nicholas daughter and erm , and erm her friend |
| 16 | It possesses a most interesting tower porch ( clocher-porche ) originally three-storeyed but now only two as the bell chamber has disappeared . |
| 17 | So two and a half times as much again . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In 1986–87 there were approximately two and a half inmates to one officer . |
| 20 | The pleats can be spaced out if preferred , needing approximately two and a half times fullness . |
| 21 | It 's not two and a half miles , it 's four centimetres . |
| 22 | There are just two and a half kilometres of railway in Lesotho . |
| 23 | Minus one wing it was carefully moved inside with just two and a half inches clearance from the tail and the side of the building ! |
| 24 | The Royal Bank branch opened in the town just two and a half years ago . |
| 25 | The Department of Health was alerted last year when it was revealed that the mother of one child , aged just two and a half , had made purchases without prescription from Mr O'Reilly 's pharmacy . |
| 26 | The real speed machines here can go from nought to sixty in just two and a half seconds . |
| 27 | They got off to a great start when they almost scored after just two and a half minutes , when Jim Magilton fed Lee Nogan , and his left foot shot was brilliantly saved by Eric Torsvale , tipping the ball all round the post for a corner . |
| 28 | Already one running champion had been crowned , the diminutive Portuguese Rosa Mota , winner of the women 's marathon in just under two and a half hours . |
| 29 | Just under two and a half acres of land untouched for centuries is at stake . |
| 30 | Kallicharran took nearly two and a half hours over 34 , while Fredericks was grafting away at the other end . |