Example sentences of "[adv] five and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing to remember is that the England and Wales of 1700 has a total population of only five and a half million people . |
| 2 | ‘ We had never realised what hard work is actually involved in producing a programme of this kind and , with the added pressure of only five and a half hours in the city , we had our work cut out . |
| 3 | In the first a female employee received a potentially fatal electric shock of perhaps five and a half thousand volts while testing ovens for high voltage leakage . |
| 4 | Five and a half , that 's right he is almost exactly five and a half are n't you ? |
| 5 | It has taken him just five and a half years to make his mark in the big time . |
| 6 | Because of the width of the cabin , nearly five and a half feet , it follows that there is plenty of room to accommodate all this without the panel becoming cluttered . |
| 7 | I have now been retired for nearly five and a half years . |
| 8 | He told Labour delegates , ‘ Over the next 10 years the water authorities are looking to pay out about five and a half billion pounds in dividends alone . |
| 9 | I was only about five and a half when she too died after a long illness and one of my earliest recollections is riding in the well , at the foot of her bath-chair when she went out for constitutionals . |
| 10 | One reason for finding the project intriguing was that it was a large open-air commission bigger than anything I had ever done about five and a half metres square . |
| 11 | The new motion did n't get Kite much more distance — about five and a half yards , on average — but it did contribute to his rising from 29th on Tour in hitting greens in regulation to third . |
| 12 | It will be within the memory of the House — although the memories of Conservative Members are probably as blank as Conservative Benches — that about five and a half years ago the right Hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) when he was the Secretary of State for Transport implemented a very novel idea . |
| 13 | The start of the text is clearly signalled by a rubric about five and a half inches from the top edge of the roll : " " Hic incipit interludium de clerico et puella " " , " Here begins the interlude of the clerk and the girl " . |
| 14 | About five and a half years . |
| 15 | I think he 's about five and a half five something like that . |
| 16 | Then she had an older one about five and a half so she had four girls . |
| 17 | He must be about five and a half you know . |
| 18 | I mean I 've only got some figures here up to the twenty fourth of February , and in that particular week we sold about thirteen and a half thousand U K holidays , as against the week last year of about five and a half , so we 've obviously seen a fairly major growth in U K holidays , but , as I said , we spent about a hundred thousand pounds on promotion , so we 're very pleased with the uptake of business coming in . |
| 19 | It 's forty years old and will set you back five and a half thousand pounds — but for that you can be sure no-one will dare cut you up on the motorway . |
| 20 | The opener , who hit 12 fours in an innings almost five and a half hours long , was eighth out and one of off-spinner Neil Smith 's six victims . |
| 21 | The opener , who hit 12 fours in an innings almost five and a half hours long , was eighth out and one of off-spinner Neil Smith 's six victims . |
| 22 | At one stage the average time of the five daytime trains between Euston and Glasgow was over five and a half hours . |
| 23 | Full day trips include a drive along the magnificent High Alpine Grossglockner Road , where you will see the longest glacier in the eastern Alps the Pasterze , which is over five and a half miles long . |
| 24 | Just over five and a half years later , I stood on the same spot and watched the Israelis drive down the same road to be greeted in precisely the same way by the same Christians on the same balconies . |
| 25 | Ellie knew this well , although she was barely five and a half years old , because she and Patsy had talked endlessly about the problem as they sat up in their cot while their father and the ‘ broth ’ played cards below them in the living room . |