Example sentences of "[vb past] two [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The London gold price rose two and a half times between early 1972 and the middle of 1973 . |
| 2 | Two thousand six hundred direct jobs and another estimated two and a half thousand indirect jobs will have been lost in the last two and a half years by the closing of Camel Lairds . |
| 3 | They reached thirteen nine , cos they 'd two and a half times amount of play . |
| 4 | This added two and a half miles to their journey to work and involved another 15 minutes ' travelling time each way . |
| 5 | He paid two and a thousand for this car , whatever it was ! |
| 6 | A selection of pre-1700 books fetched two and a half times its valuation ; a sale of duplicate art portfolios and fine printing had the ‘ big boys ’ from London falling over each other … |
| 7 | Irish Memory finished two and a half lengths away third — a cracking good run considering he was responsible , with Bold Pursuit , for the fast early gallop which produced a race time only 0.09sec slower than standard . |
| 8 | Capriati spent two and a half years under the tutelage . |
| 9 | Ian Yarlott , business unit manager for Intuit 's UK arm , claims that the company spent two and a half years making sure it would be a genuine British product rather than a hastily localized version of the US product . |
| 10 | Before the exhibition opened on Monday , 11 March last , Mr Isherwood , ARPS , APAGB , an official appointed by the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain , spent two and a half hours in Chapman Gallery carefully weighing and considering before he settled on the winners . |
| 11 | His emissary , Menshikov , spent two and a half months at the Turkish capital and succeeded in reversing the Turks ' decision on the Holy Places . |
| 12 | I spent two and a half years working with a single comprehensive school looking at the change in that school from a system of streamed teaching to a system of mixed ability teaching . |
| 13 | I spent two and a half years working with a single comprehensive school , looking at the change in that school from a system of streamed teaching to a system of mixed ability teaching . |
| 14 | Well that was , well it should 've gone up from that , what did they do with the VAT stuck two and a half percent on it and said there you are we 're gon na hold the Poll Tax down , how ? |
| 15 | Report repeated two and a half second ticking sounds from plane . |
| 16 | Once , 24 hours after getting back to the office , I fell ill — with symptoms very like scrub typhus , a tick-borne disease — felt rotten , lost two and a half stone in the next fortnight , could n't eat , had hallucinations . |
| 17 | In one recent case the victim of a stabbing died two and a half years after the incident , having been kept on a life-support machine for almost the entire time . |
| 18 | The search for an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara took two and a half years and thousands of dollars . |
| 19 | The Grand Pilier d'Angle route took two and a half days and weighed in at 6c and A4 . |
| 20 | Filming just the ELR train scenes took two and a half days , one shooting finishing at 04.00 hours , and all for about six minutes of the 90 minute drama Angels , which was a pilot for a possible TV series . |
| 21 | Financed to the tune of FFr5 million by the giant British chemical firm ICI , which also paid FFr2 million towards the Salle des Fetes exhibition and a special laser-lit dinner for 1,000 under the Louvre pyramid , restoration of ‘ The Marriage at Cana ’ took two and a half years — almost twice the time it took the thirty-four year-old , Verona-born artist and his brother Benedetto to paint Christ 's first miracle for the refectory of the Benedictine Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice in 1562–63 . |
| 22 | His most important contract ( first with another carpenter , John Ball , and then on his own ) was for the deepening and wharfing of the Fleet ditch , an enormous task which employed 200 men , took two and a half years to finish ( 1672–4 ) , and brought him a gift of plate worth £200 from the City on its efficient completion . |
| 23 | The testing at Buenos Aires-1 took two and a half days , Jeff App says , and the calculated formation damage ( skin values ) for the well 's producing layers were approximately 50 for the lower and 13 for the upper layer . |
| 24 | And in both cases that took two and a half years . |
| 25 | The ferry left Ramsgate for Dunkirk at 9.00am British time and docked two and a half hours later at 12.30pm continental time . |
| 26 | Yeah , what about the fucking night that we did two and a bit hours and the other little bits and pieces that we 've been fucking doing it , |
| 27 | But in Powys ( almost all LFA ) the total cost of investment aids under the capital grant schemes increased two and a half fold between 1979/80 and 1982/83 ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 28 | The bonus erm he only got two and a half grand last year , is he expecting to get some this year and if so what does he normally do with the money . |
| 29 | Between 1958 and 1970 trade among the Six increased five times over , exports to the rest of the world expanded two and a half times , and Gross Domestic Product grew within the EEC at an average of five per cent per annum . |
| 30 | ‘ It sold two and a half thousand copies very quickly and Lime had to get more pressed . |