Example sentences of "[adj] and [art] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | VAST , variegated and hugely expensive , an apparently random mix of the earnest , the entertaining and the purely kitsch , Expo 92 , which opens in Seville on Monday , is certain , if nothing else , to change the face of Andalusia . |
| 2 | I have worked my beat as near as possible to 2 and a half miles an hour , and I do n't think there is much to complain about . |
| 3 | It currently stands at 2 and a half miles . |
| 4 | The route has also changed , for the first walks were from Bradford to York , the winner of the first race taking 7 hours , 7 minutes and 50 seconds to cover the thirty-nine and a half miles . |
| 5 | Inset left Sam on her tractor-mower : ‘ Three sheep do n't eat enough grass to keep six and a half acres looking tidy ’ |
| 6 | Its large terraced gardens formed but a part of six and a half acres of land enclosed on three sides by high walls and locked gates . |
| 7 | The focal point of Cranswick is the village green , six and a half acres , believed to be the largest in East Yorkshire . |
| 8 | In addition to the muscle-stretching circuits , the recruits tackle endurance runs of up to six and a half miles , aerobics , assault courses and the Military Swimming Test . |
| 9 | Set in complete seclusion in thirteen and a half acres of landscaped gardens and fields and surrounded by woodland , Mizzards is an exceptionally attractive 16th-century farmhouse built of brick and stone . |
| 10 | The Oxford Canal , for example , was shortened by thirteen and a half miles between 1829 and 1834 . |
| 11 | The first point to make is that because all the possible histories for the universe are finite in extent , any quantity that one uses as a measure of time will have a greatest and a least value . |
| 12 | Nine hundred of the strongest men worked for about three hours to lift me on to the platform , and one thousand five hundred of the King 's largest horses ( each eleven and a half centimetres high ) pulled me to the capital . |
| 13 | Like George VI and the then Queen Elizabeth eating spam from a gold plate during the Second World War , this was pageantry on the cheap rather than an unrestrained recapitulation of the glories of the first Elizabethan Age . |
| 14 | It had , however , collected eight and a half tons of khat , the mild narcotic leaf on which Djibouti feeds like caterpillars on cabbage . |
| 15 | Eight and a half inches tall and bad tempered with it . |
| 16 | ( A pelycosaur sub-order like the Dimetrodon , with its great cooling crest , was three and a half metres long . ) |
| 17 | I loathe the metal anti-bazooka sheeting fixed to the museum walls and the twelve-millimetre-thick glass panel which , while protecting ‘ Guernica ’ , will only allow visitors to view the painting from a distance of three and a half metres . |
| 18 | His dick was perfectly formed , but measured no more than three and a half inches . |
| 19 | X 19 ins. , two inches thick , with a hole in the middle about three and a half inches in diameter . |
| 20 | It consisted of an oak beam ten feet long , behind this was the foot , five inches by three and a half inches and three feet long and on top of this the handles . |
| 21 | Its construction was a considerable engineering feat , an enclosed wet dock of three and a half acres built within the pool , a tidal creek of the Mersey . |
| 22 | Royal Cedar , trained by John McConnochie , who has taken him over from the now retired Mercy Rimell , is another who is perfectly at home on fast ground , winning here over three and a half miles and at Newbury this season . |
| 23 | Royal Cedar , trained by John McConnochie , who has taken him over from the now retired Mercy Rimell , is another who is perfectly at home on fast ground , winning here over three and a half miles and at Newbury this season . |
| 24 | Lowthorpe is a small elongated village , situated five miles northeast of Driffield , which stretches southwards for nearly three and a half miles across the plain of Holderness . |
| 25 | Paull is a small village lying beside the river Humber some seven miles from Hull and three and a half miles south-west of Hedon . |
| 26 | The offensive gained a strip of territory one mile wide and three and a half miles long . |
| 27 | He had had to walk home , three and a half miles , but luckily his parents were out , at some deanery get-together , and Trish Pardoe , who helped in the shop , was babysitting Flora . |
| 28 | The logical place to begin on the Basque Coast is Bayonne , which is a port , but three and a half miles from the open sea down the navigable channel of the river Adour . |
| 29 | The hunt recently fenced off 6 and a half miles of the M40 to stop foxes getting onto it . |
| 30 | The hunt recently fenced off 6 and a half miles of the M40 to stop foxes getting onto it . |