Example sentences of "[adj] [indef pn] and a half " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the human brain , the most conspicuous structure , overlying the rest , is the cerebral cortex , a folded sheet of tissue , some one and a half square feet in area if spread flat , containing layers of neurones and their processes . |
| 2 | The annual migration of some one and a half million wildebeest is an awesome spectacle as they travel about 800 kilometres in search of water and green pastures for survival . |
| 3 | I like to have some sort of colour down as an underpainting first to kill the white of the paper — a similar process to an oil painter , and I start by wetting the paper with an old one and a half inch household painting brush and then quickly slash in some colour which slightly relates to what I see . |
| 4 | The cost of the additional piece of road beyond the er the link to the er waste transfer station would be an extra one and a half million . |
| 5 | Aid agencies are warning of a severe shortage of food in Central Bosnia and with Winter approaching , an estimated one and a half million people there are now dependant on aid . |
| 6 | The Nikolaikirche , with 2,000 seats , was full one and a half hours before the church meeting began . |
| 7 | Of the approximate one and a half thousand pounds from the sale of the Volvo , minus expenses , that he regarded legitimately as his , added to the four thousand in he and Zoe 's joint account , there remained one hundred and seventy pounds . |
| 8 | They found that much of the large negative basis in the first one and a half hours of trading was due to the use of stale prices from Friday 16 October in computing the index . |
| 9 | Compassion for the victims of this sick Tory society compassion for the millions of people who have no work compassion for the victims of racists and racisms compassion for the victims of the public service cuts , whether it be the miserable one and a half percent pay offers compulsory competitive tendering job cuts , low pay , the pensioners , the elderly , the sick , the child , the list is never ending . |
| 10 | A new one and a half million pound incinerator for burning hospital waste has been switched on . |
| 11 | In a statement issued in Bonn , he stressed ‘ the importance that Western countries lend to the continuation of the reform process that President Yeltsin has represented for the past one and a half years ’ . |
| 12 | However at 2100 air attacks on the departing Fleet and convoy began and lasted for the next one and a half hours — torpedo-bombers attempted to attack down moon but were greeted by intense A.A. fire and were forced to turn away . |