Example sentences of "[be] three [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ones that you see in the book they 're three and a half inches . |
| 2 | The trap with its missing section of beam had been three and a half feet across , and Harry , taking the envelope bait , had gone through its centre . |
| 3 | These are these are three and a half inches wide . |
| 4 | These are three and a half so they 'd be slightly longer . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're much more sensible than you used to be , but your mum ca n't see it , and my mum still thinks I 'm three and a half . ’ |
| 6 | Good God , they reckon hers is gon na be three and a half to four pounds . |
| 7 | While the reduction in price rises is very welcome — taking us back to where we were three and a half years ago — does my right hon. Friend recognise the irony that , as a result , current interest rates — the price of money — are , in real terms , at an all-time high ? |
| 8 | Flying time is three and a half hours and there is no time change . |
| 9 | I hate to say you should be American , because of course , no-one should , but this one single evening of Great British Music — Spiritualized , Curve , The Jesus And Mary Chain , in that fixed order — is three and a quarter hours that compounds and crystallises everything that is vibrant and clever and downright sex-mad- filthy about what squares call ‘ alternative ’ . |
| 10 | she 's three and a half years older than you . |
| 11 | My parents kept a baby book about me until I was sixteen , and when I was three and a half they wrote : ‘ Takes a great interest in her clothes and chooses her own outfit each morning . |
| 12 | ( A pelycosaur sub-order like the Dimetrodon , with its great cooling crest , was three and a half metres long . ) |
| 13 | Well w we just er opened it s I think it was three and a half days a week . |
| 14 | Though he was fortunate to secure the friendship of the ruthless Ras Mikael of Tigre , who at that time dominated Abyssinia , it was three and a half years before he could leave the country . |
| 15 | That was three and a half years ago . |
| 16 | well he should only be eight and a half , I mean they told us he was three and a half when he was rescued . |