Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] two [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would be marvellous if The Committee were to win the National , ’ Scott said , ‘ for the two owners have been immensely patient and have let me get on with bringing the horse back to his best after he had been off the course for two and a half years . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ People are saying , if you 've been in existence for two and a half years , perhaps you 've got something about you , ’ he says . |
| 3 | But he gave the lion 's share of the credit for the victory to Snodin , playing his first full 90 minutes for two and a half years after a series of hamstring and knee injuries put his career in doubt . |
| 4 | I was with Suu for two and a half weeks in April and I was able to tell her that this was going to happen today . |
| 5 | I 've had a girlfriend for two and a half years , but before that I 'd never spoken to a girl in my life . |
| 6 | It was Scott who launched McWilliams on his Irish career after he had come home from England where he had made his start and Pat stayed with Scott for two and a half years before moving on . |
| 7 | Jacqueline has been employed by Basingstoke for two and a half years . |
| 8 | Having run sixth to Desert Orchid in the Irish National the month following the Cheltenham race and then been beaten a short head by On The Other Hand at the big Punchestown festival in April that year , The Committee ran into a major training setback and never saw another racecourse for two and a half years . |
| 9 | He is the biggest of all seals , growing up to 14 feet long and a weight of two and a half tonnes . |
| 10 | The shock figure of two and a half million households in debt has been reached by the independent Policy Studies Institute . |
| 11 | This was but a temporary setback , for after a rest and a defeat on his return he proceeded to win his next nine races , completely outclassing his rivals at distances from nine furlongs to two and a quarter miles . |
| 12 | It 's best to do these on the track , but if one is not available , you can do repeats of two and a half to three and a half minutes on the road . |
| 13 | Second point is that Barton Willmore say again a settlement of two and a half thousand is needed in order to be viable , well a settlement of two and a half thousand can not possibly be justified under the statistics that we have heard to date , and it is ni it is noteworthy that Barton Willmore representative did not actually promote a need argument , therefore the settlement at two and a half thousand is n well the settlement at two and a half thousand is not necessary , and anything less than that is unsustainable , so therefore in my in my view that is a a further reason why it should not be contemplated as a solution . |
| 14 | Second point is that Barton Willmore say again a settlement of two and a half thousand is needed in order to be viable , well a settlement of two and a half thousand can not possibly be justified under the statistics that we have heard to date , and it is ni it is noteworthy that Barton Willmore representative did not actually promote a need argument , therefore the settlement at two and a half thousand is n well the settlement at two and a half thousand is not necessary , and anything less than that is unsustainable , so therefore in my in my view that is a a further reason why it should not be contemplated as a solution . |
| 15 | That 's to say someone is leaving and we are going to take that post out and put it into the food section , and on b , I would say to Matthew that before committing us to a budget of two and a half thousand against a background of ten percent cuts , I would suggest that the health educational help-line and their day-long courses for E H Os might be made good use of in the forth-coming year . |
| 16 | GEC , which has been making fibres for Telecom for two and a half years , says it is aiming to get the cost down to £100 per kilometre by the end of the 1980s . |
| 17 | TRACY THOMPSON is a graduate of the Royal College of Art who is now based at Queen 's College , Oxford , where she is writing a dissertation on her experiences during two and a half years living in the Yemen . |
| 18 | Within that two years , any time within that two years you can basically be given the sack for not coming up to the grade or not coming up to scratch or sometimes they prolong your pr probation for another six months so instead of being a probationer constable for two years you 're a probationer constable for two and a half years . |
| 19 | From then onwards Waterston stayed in Illchester ownership for two and a half centuries but , since they preferred the grandeur of Melbury , it soon degenerated into the farm that it was in Bathsheba Everdene 's time . |
| 20 | The 2,000 Guineas , Derby — where he beat Gyr by two and a half lengths — Irish Derby , King George and the St Leger all fell to Charles Engelhard 's colt . |
| 21 | Continue following the Bure for two and a half miles until Thurne Mouth , the junction with the River Thurne . |
| 22 | I 've been admitting to the robbery for two and a half years , but no one will listen . |
| 23 | There 's a very small difference of two and a half percent which Mr refers to in his proof as being a change er in the figures which I would accept . |
| 24 | Charles 's claim to be a martyr must largely depend on what ensued in the period of two and a half years between the end of the First Civil War and his execution . |
| 25 | For this purpose the current research project has about ECU6 million to spend over a period of two and a half years . |
| 26 | This latter is a longitudinal survey over a period of two and a half years following a structured sample of some 4,000 persons who registered as unemployed in May 1980 . |
| 27 | A period of two and a half years of which fifteen months have been for construction . |
| 28 | a period of two and a half , three years now . |
| 29 | The fracture of the right femur healed in six weeks with two and a half inches of shortening . |
| 30 | A decade of it now , ten years at two and a half thousand pages a year . |