Example sentences of "[verb] [num] and 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 | The average chocoholic eats twelve and a half , 60-gram bars a week — three times more than is usual . |
6 | He 's made seven and a half |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 |
9 | so if we get two , we 've got six and a half ? |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Yeah but he 's had one and a half then . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Got eighteen and a half today on the pools ! |
14 | 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 . |
15 | So so we 've got three now , so we got , sorry we 've got four and a half |
16 | We 've got four and a half yeah |
17 | You save seven and a half P a pint . |
18 | You save seven and a half P a pint ! |
19 | 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 . |
20 | What , wh wh feeling slightly bigger , you get three and a half , but er what goes into conven what goes into conventional memory ? |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Using one and a quarter fullness , i.e. , one width of 120cm ( 48in ) wide fabric with finished curtain width of 112cm ( 44in ) . |
26 | Sales were split 50–50 and a set fee was advanced per month on the legal basis of a three-year agreement . |
27 | When I reached six and a half stone or so , my periods stopped . |
28 | Well weighs ten and a half ! |
29 | Does any firm specialise in supplying suitable reconditioned exchange cylinder heads to allow two and a quarter litre petrol engines to run on lead-free ? |
30 | He had caught up with and passed his rival in a latter of a few strides in a quite extraordinary spurt of acceleration for a steeple-chaser carrying twelve and a half stone at the end of a three-mile chase , and for the big horse it was simply too much : Mill House weakened rapidly and by the time Arkle had strode home to a rapturous reception Mill House had been passed by Rondetto . |