Example sentences of "[prep] three [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After three and a half hours the stragglers were still coming through . |
| 2 | So without working it out , but using the graph now , how far would he be after three and a half hours ? |
| 3 | After three and a half years with the company in Industrial Engineering , Alan MacDonald was appointed Assistant to the Production Manager at the beginning of November . |
| 4 | He had slept little these past three and a half weeks , often waking of his own accord in the pre-dawn darkness and walking through to his personal study to attempt to concentrate on papers of state . |
| 5 | As it happens , the problems of an unstaged Porgy are hardly less acute — a cast of 24 soloists and a duration of three and a quarter hours are not easily managed in the concert hall . |
| 6 | Around the world , they cause the deaths of three and a half million children every year . |
| 7 | With your help we can achieve that goal in 1990 — and in doing so , we can save the lives of three and a half million children every year . |
| 8 | The following season he was back at the Festival as favourite for the Gold Cup , but soft going and the distance of three and a quarter miles proved his undoing , and he finished fifth . |
| 9 | The Dunbars have shown that whereas harems taken over in combat only last an average of three and a half years , those established by way of two-male team formation last eight and a half . |
| 10 | The boiler is 120lbs per square inch pressure with two cylinders of three and a half inch diameter , four and a quarter stroke working on driving wheels which are ten inch . |
| 11 | I loathe the metal anti-bazooka sheeting fixed to the museum walls and the twelve-millimetre-thick glass panel which , while protecting ‘ Guernica ’ , will only allow visitors to view the painting from a distance of three and a half metres . |
| 12 | Why should they make this journey of three and a half thousand miles , just to lay their eggs and by doing so commit their young to make a similar journey in reverse to find their feeding grounds ? |
| 13 | In the course of three and a half years they were able to recover over fourteen thousand ounces of gold , three quarters of it fine , from the single cemetery of Sinú . |
| 14 | Its construction was a considerable engineering feat , an enclosed wet dock of three and a half acres built within the pool , a tidal creek of the Mersey . |
| 15 | The beautiful chapter 9 is much more difficult from the point of view of chronological speculations , because it is a reinterpretation of Jeremiah 's " seventy years for the desolations of Jerusalem " ( 9.2 ) : but in 9.27 there seems to be a reaffirmation of the period of three and a half years for the suspension of the Temple service . |
| 16 | But if I were in your shoes I 'd be worried silly with a debt of three and a half thousand hanging over me . ’ |
| 17 | Mark came in with a very respectable time of three and a half hours in his first marathon . |
| 18 | It was at the end of April that Eleanor Murray , Purchasing Manager , heard the good results of three and a half years work , studying for an exam to become a Member of the Institute of Purchasing and Supply . |
| 19 | Sunderland 's allocation of three and a half thousand tickets sold out in less than an hour . |
| 20 | The updated Accord has only been on sale in Britain for six weeks , but already Honda 's well ahead of its target of three and a half thousand sold by Christmas . |
| 21 | The centre is the result of three and a half years of hard fundraising work by local people . |
| 22 | We await with interest their definition of three and a half hours . |
| 23 | ‘ Between the two of them , he owed between three and a half and four and a half thousand dollars , just for cocaine for that weekend . ’ |
| 24 | They told us three and a half , but there again a lot of rescue people do cut the ages of their dog , but , but , our , our two vets agreed he was around three and a half , between three and a half and four , look at his teeth and his coat and his bones . |
| 25 | It was the only institution which was able to keep alive the sense of national identity during three and a half centuries of subjugation to foreign rule , which stretched between the fall of Smederovo in 1459 and the revolt of Karadjordje in 1804 . |
| 26 | Malcolm 's return brought him a straight push for three and a ninth Test hundred , but he immediately drove half-heartedly at Hemmings and gave Gooch a simple catch at mid-on . |
| 27 | In a long match like this it is really difficult to play your best for three and a half hours . ’ |
| 28 | It was there in 1903 that quarrymen went on strike for three and a half years , surviving on subsistence farming . |
| 29 | It was in New Zealand , where he stayed for three and a half years , that he first entered the world of Bohemia and found himself getting on best with artists . |
| 30 | By the time human beings first came into being , several million years ago , life had already been evolving for three and a half billion years . |