Example sentences of "[pron] was [num] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was eighteen and a half I was let out , but I think I got institutionalised being there three and a half years , and I wanted to stay there . |
| 2 | ( I was four and a half years on the Western Front as a stretcher bearer ) and only one of the worst cases who had it and lived through it . |
| 3 | I was four and a half years old and I was about to start Bedfield Primary School . |
| 4 | And then I was four and a half year in Sanday . |
| 5 | Fifteen and a half Er well no I was nineteen and a half then you see , five years is n't it . |
| 6 | ‘ After my father died , when I was five and a half , she used to make me bath myself all alone . |
| 7 | I did a dreadful thing , the worst thing of my life , when I was twelve and a half years old , or I feel that I did , and nothing can change it … ’ |
| 8 | " I was 11 and a half stone ( 160lb/73kg ) when I began the WNAS diet . |
| 9 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
| 10 | I started school to er Bowvale School on Dovecote Lane at Eastwood , when I was two and a half . |
| 11 | I was six and a half years the , the minister of Whalsay and Skerries where the first er centre h ha has been built and there was rejoicing in that community that the that social responsibility had been invited by the council to join in this work . |
| 12 | I first started when I was seven and a half . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I carried Emily — she was one and a half years old then . |
| 15 | When she was two and a half , we all went on holiday in France with the two boys . |
| 16 | She was five and a half when she entered school for the first time . |
| 17 | A MUM today hugged the new-born baby she feared might might have been injured in a hit and run car crash when she was eight and a half months pregnant . |
| 18 | ‘ She was four and a half when I first saw her , ’ explained Libby . |
| 19 | The house itself was 1914 or a bit earlier , steeply pitched slate roofs and high chimneys : bijou Lutyens for the leaner purse . |
| 20 | The Basingstoke Canal at Claycart had around three inches of ice which led to the cancellation of the HBCAA Open and there was two and a half inches of ice on the Oxford Canal which led to the scrapping of the Banbury Open . |
| 21 | She stared at it now , hardly able to believe that it was two and a half years since it had been taken . |
| 22 | It was two and a half years since I had seen them and it gave me a lot of hope just to know that they were still in good shape , although they both looked much older . |
| 23 | It was two and a half years since she 'd seen her godchildren , Emma and Sophie , who 'd last been in England with their parents on a Christmas visit , staying with Sir David and Lady Wyndham . |
| 24 | but I , I disagree with them lending money to the extent , the old way was better when it was two and a half times the salary , your salary |
| 25 | It was one and a half hours later before they reached him , caught up in all the plants , still shouting ‘ What have I done ? |
| 26 | Do you know how much it was when we got our first house , just before we were married , it was n't two and a half times your salary , it was one and a half times our salary |
| 27 | The ship left there shortly after midnight but it was six and a half hours before the seamen were discovered missing . |
| 28 | He was killed by a needle-like instrument ( punctured wound the report says , but it was four and a quarter inches deep ) going into his kidney , renal artery , peritoneum and loop of jejunem . |
| 29 | Well w we just er opened it s I think it was three and a half days a week . |
| 30 | 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 . |