Example sentences of "[adv] four [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was only four and a half when his father died . |
| 3 | IT took Damien Denny only four and a half ruthlessly one sided minutes to strike a victory note at the Ulster Hall last night . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Cos er there were only four and a half inch divide in brick walls . |
| 6 | that 's how much four and a half ton of costs , just ever so slightly , it 's more about |
| 7 | It 's nine yeah so four and a half . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We propose therefore to increase delegated funding , fund the schools by one point one million er , er approximately four and a half thousand per head average per school . |
| 10 | I be four I 'm not four and a half am I mum ? |
| 11 | no I four I said not four and a month I 'm four |
| 12 | After starting out with a Honda VF500 in ‘ 84 , Bradl made it to factory rider in just four and a half years , making a name for himself on the way as a man bursting with aggression . |
| 13 | This seemed a race well beyond his stamina range , for the Grand National is over nearly four and a half miles and Crisp 's ideal distance was apparently no further than two and a half miles . |
| 14 | Nearly four and a half |
| 15 | After about four and a half hours of driving , Sadler calculated that they were one mile away from the target , although there was absolutely nothing to see . |
| 16 | Geoff Dowling , race secretary and one-time competitor ( but unfortunately never winner ) , told me that five and a half hours was reasonable but the first-class walkers could be expected about four and a half hours after the start . |
| 17 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 18 | The Russia of 1880 lifted less than 1.5 per cent of Europe 's coal ; to the greatly enlarged production of 1900 she contributed 3.6 per cent — about four and a half times as much . |
| 19 | The battery takes about four and a half hours to charge . |
| 20 | We reckon in about four and a half years I should have gone up at least a grade , so , allowing for the usual increments , and assuming that the mortgage rate does n't rise above the present eleven per cent , I should think we could afford to let Juliet stop work then . ’ |
| 21 | The cost was over three thousand pounds , which is a considerable sum today , but was then worth about four and a half thousand in today 's terms . |
| 22 | We arrived at the lake at about 7.30a.m. after approximately a four and a half hour drive to find two lovely lakes , one , with a chalet on stilts , about seventeen acres and another smaller lake by its side about four and a half acres . |
| 23 | ‘ Tides carrying us , we 're still making about four and a half knots over the ground . |
| 24 | And indeed there are some who make think that the County Council has been too generous in that the reduction from the hundred percent migration in four districts , er amounts only to somewhere about four and a half er thousand dwellings . |
| 25 | Erm , we have about four and a half percent to five percent of the company left . |
| 26 | Erm , I personally prefer litres , but I transmit that the four and half litres about four and a half litres |
| 27 | About four and a half |
| 28 | I reckon about four and a half . |
| 29 | So your gun would have been at least four and a half to five foot off of one surface of the floor ? |
| 30 | We were then transferred to the Gendarmerie Royale , we stayed for one year in a prison camp in Rabat , then four and a half years at the headquarters of the Gendarmerie in Rabat , our hands tied day and night from 13 July , 1975 to 19 December , 1979 . |