Example sentences of "[verb] [num] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this amp , Ch.1 is the lead channel and the standard volume , treble , middle , bass and master volume controls are also given the secondary tasks of channel select , gain 1 , gain 2 and a notch shift . |
| 2 | The insurance is underwritten by R E Brown & Others Syndicate 702 and a group of syndicates at Lloyd 's . |
| 3 | count three and a half . |
| 4 | Benny was turned sixty-five and a widower who lived alone in Abbey Street . |
| 5 | On this basis , it may be assumed that reliability estimates ought to exceed 0.7 if a test is to be regarded as providing ‘ reliable ’ scores . |
| 6 | where a legally aided person fails in an interlocutory matter it often occurs 6 that an order for costs will not be enforced without leave of the court . |
| 7 | The average chocoholic eats twelve and a half , 60-gram bars a week — three times more than is usual . |
| 8 | Found in savanna woodland and grassland wherever there is such terrain throughout subsaharan Africa , the warthog is one of the classic wild pigs , an animal whose distinctive countenance seems to stick in the mind of anyone who 's ever seen one or a picture of one . |
| 9 | He 's made seven and a half |
| 10 | The earliest I have found relates to Henry de Lornes , in the year 1203 , when he paid 16s and a palfrey for 1½ yokes of land in Halling and Cuxton and another in 1271 , when Walter , son of John de Boghurst granted land to Thomas Heryng of Halling for which he was to pay a seam of corn and do service to the chief lord . |
| 11 | Julia said oh you do n't look eleven and a half , but er I 'd still like to look about , I do n't know about ten , I suppose oh you do have to do |
| 12 | so if we get two , we 've got six and a half ? |
| 13 | Say the town had only got three and a bit thousand people anyhow , three thousand people , erm there was very very little actual passenger traffic . |
| 14 | Yeah but he 's had one and a half then . |
| 15 | then I turned round and says no you have n't you 've got eight and a half weeks and he has n't he 's got twelve and a half . |
| 16 | Got eighteen and a half today on the pools ! |
| 17 | You 've had two and a bit examples , a thirteen year old with their questions about life , what 's it all for , who put us here and what on earth did they put us here for . |
| 18 | So so we 've got three now , so we got , sorry we 've got four and a half |
| 19 | We 've got four and a half yeah |
| 20 | You save seven and a half P a pint . |
| 21 | You save seven and a half P a pint ! |
| 22 | A weekly competition at DPR awarded 1100 and a bottle of champagne to the AE who got in the largest amount of money over the five days . |
| 23 | What , wh wh feeling slightly bigger , you get three and a half , but er what goes into conven what goes into conventional memory ? |
| 24 | Telethon '92 raised one and a quarter million pounds for charities across the Central region — recipients like Play for Children in Nottingham will be sorry to see it go . |
| 25 | One person informed us that he lost four and a half stone doing jury service : we considered sending on his letter to weight-watchers , so that the future courtroom might feature twelve fat men and true . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | You think you no a colour until you try the er , and the one I actually picked out when she measured it off , she 'd only got three yards and I needed four and a half . |
| 28 | Using one and a quarter fullness , i.e. , one width of 120cm ( 48in ) wide fabric with finished curtain width of 112cm ( 44in ) . |
| 29 | Sales were split 50–50 and a set fee was advanced per month on the legal basis of a three-year agreement . |
| 30 | When I reached six and a half stone or so , my periods stopped . |