Example sentences of "[adv] two [conj] a " 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 | So two and a half times as much again . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In 1986–87 there were approximately two and a half inmates to one officer . |
| 18 | The pleats can be spaced out if preferred , needing approximately two and a half times fullness . |
| 19 | It 's not two and a half miles , it 's four centimetres . |
| 20 | There are just two and a half kilometres of railway in Lesotho . |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | The Royal Bank branch opened in the town just two and a half years ago . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The real speed machines here can go from nought to sixty in just two and a half seconds . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Just under two and a half acres of land untouched for centuries is at stake . |
| 28 | Kallicharran took nearly two and a half hours over 34 , while Fredericks was grafting away at the other end . |
| 29 | It was nearly two and a half years since Hamish had walked out on Daisy and she could no longer claim to be madly in love with him , but she missed the presence of a man in her life , and her self-confidence was in tatters . |
| 30 | Between September nineteen forty one and June nineteen forty two , nearly two and a half million homes had been damaged or destroyed . |