Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] two [conj] a " in BNC.
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1 | Erm I personally feel although some members of me team do n't agree er with the with the heavy a advertising expenditure we 've got , we can probably do better than two and a half the first year certainly erm and maybe ten percent of the market in the end of the at the end of the day . |
2 | Given these crushing disadvantages and a term of less than two and a half years , it is perhaps not surprising that Ford 's presidency was a failure . |
3 | Less than two and a half miles away is the small town of San Donato in Poggio , with some shops and one of the several beautiful 12th/13th century romanesque churches in this area . |
4 | Less than two and a half hours later , Le Mans was to be the scene of the worst disaster in motor racing history . |
5 | But if I may interrupt , how do you cope with the argument that Mr Curtis was making that if your settlement is , say , less than two and a half thousand it is no more than a large housing estate which relies on the centre of York for its functions , of service , shopping , entertainment , and therefore that the difference between that the difference between a new settlement beyond the greenbelt and peripheral development , in those terms , is no different . |
6 | nine so it 's , it 's less than two and a half litres . |
7 | This seemed a race well beyond his stamina range , for the Grand National is over nearly four and a half miles and Crisp 's ideal distance was apparently no further than two and a half miles . |
8 | If you gathered I ounce of it , you could wipe out more than two and a half million people . |
9 | AN Alton man , who was caught driving while more than two and a half times over the legal alcohol limit , has been banned from the roads for 22 months . |
10 | How would they shake down in such a confined space with what amounted to more than two and a half ? |
11 | IF ANYONE deserves the blame for the world 's failure to complete the Uruguay round of world trade talks — now more than two and a half mind-numbing years overdue — it is the European Community . |
12 | From 1948 , when the Health Service began , to 1990 , current expenditure in real terms ( excluding price increases ) rose more than two and a half times . |
13 | He leaned back , then took up the book and began to read again , letting Lao Tzu 's words — words more than two and a half thousand years old — wash over the sleeping boy and bring him ease . |
14 | Seb recognised the disconsolate figure sitting on a milestone at the top of a hill , no more than two and a half miles from Swinbrook . |
15 | In the case of the Selby complex , the independent statistics are more than two and a half times higher . |
16 | More than two and a half thousand people lost their jobs last month , and another sixty jobs have gone today . |
17 | They threatened the post mistress , and stole more than two and a half thousand pounds . |
18 | Woodmill controlled the game for much of the first half but could not get through the Meridian defence and it was n't until two and a half minutes into the second half that the deadlock was finally broken . |
19 | Particular emphasis has been placed on the fact that the county embraces the best part of two national parks as well as two and a half areas of outstanding natural beauty and a heritage coast . |