Example sentences of "[prep] [num] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I said , you 're gon na come in at two per cent , and I 'm gon na come in at twenty-two , and we both know that actually we 're gon na up finish between eight and a half and nine , do n't we ? |
2 | At a meeting on Sunday , the 300 strikers indicated they were prepared to agree to management plans to resolve a dispute over lay-offs , but would return to work under protest at part of the package which included a wage freeze for 1993 and a cut in fringe benefits . |
3 | One thing is clear none of this OO stuff is imminent in Oracle as SQL 3 is pencilled in for 1995/6 and an object storage manager will most likely follow that . |
4 | Thanks to Mrs Castle 's Diary , we have some intelligence on Wilson Mark I. Elected in October 1964 , he had by early 1969 ( i.e. after four and a quarter years ) reached his 236th ad hoc group . |
5 | After four and a quarter years , some firms will already have had at least two visits and many in category 1 will be facing a second visit in the near future . |
6 | That means that two-thirds of the population can be expected to sleep between six and a half and eight and a half hours a night , about 16 per cent regularly sleep over eight and a half hours , and another 16 per cent sleep under six and a half hours . |
7 | Fine Gael had a PV of 27.1 and a PS of 30.7 . |
8 | With the drive cache disabled , it turned in a power rating of 14,203 and a WinTach rating of 3.75 , which is n't bad . |
9 | The British branch employs a fund raising team of eleven and an information staff of the same size . |
10 | The race will be over 5 miles instead of eight and a quarter and is being arranged with the help of Loftus AC road race organiser Peter Clifford . |
11 | The FT Government Securities index currently stands at 88.18 against a high for the year to date of 89.75 and a low of 85.11 ( see panel ) . |
12 | Determine your total daily calorie intake at a minimum figure of 850 and a maximum of 1,500 . |
13 | When he died in 1980 , the brothers decided to buy the landscaping division and concluded the deal almost four years later , when Waterers was losing money on a staff of 12 and a turnover of £400,000 . |
14 | The following example explains how a bar of 12/8 translates into a bar of 4/4 , a bar of 6/8 translates into a bar of 2/4 and a bar of 9/8 translates into a bar of 3/4 : |
15 | The calculated minimal sample size was eight subjects in each group , with an alpha risk of 0.05 and a beta risk of 0.10 . |
16 | I live in a parish of 12,000 and a town of 30,000 . |
17 | There is a cast of 100 and a stage crew of 20 but every pupil in the school was involved in the artwork , costumes and hall decorations . |
18 | I 'm 32 and have two children from a first marriage — a daughter of 10 and a son of 13 . |
19 | the age of six and a half |
20 | Li , a veteran of the Long March of 1934-35 and a commander of the Red Army prior to its revolutionary victory in 1949 , was a self-taught economist from a peasant family . |
21 | As it happens , the problems of an unstaged Porgy are hardly less acute — a cast of 24 soloists and a duration of three and a quarter hours are not easily managed in the concert hall . |
22 | The following season he was back at the Festival as favourite for the Gold Cup , but soft going and the distance of three and a quarter miles proved his undoing , and he finished fifth . |
23 | After meeting Prince Charles , Diana went back to school that November day to have a second shot at her O levels , which eluded her yet again , and the following month , at the age of sixteen and a half , she left for good . |
24 | The deposition of the king was followed by a reversal of the forfeitures of 1322 and an annulment of the grants that the victors of Boroughbridge had made to themselves and their supporters . |
25 | A scale was formed by simply scoring the number of times the respondent said that he or she was satisfied ; the resulting scale started with a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 6 , but it was dichotomized at the median value into a scale of political alienation with two values ( high and low ) . |
26 | Using a comprehensive selection of standard psychological tests between October and December 1979 , Tunstall came to the conclusion that Mr X had an IQ of 80 and a reading comprehension age , in English , of 71/2 years . |
27 | With a span of control of 5 and a salary differential of 25 per cent , this implies a ‘ mark-up ’ over the front-line costs of ⅓ to allow for the hierarchical ‘ overhead ’ . |
28 | Intensive Group Courses : They are offered throughout the year for executives and for serious students of all professions and institutions of learning , who enjoy the challenge of quick progress in a small group of an average of 5 and a maximum of 7 participants . |
29 | He considered that a multiplier of 12 was substantially too high for the ordinary case of a man dying at age 53 , leaving a widow of 52 and a child of 18 . |
30 | This is said to represent an increase in real terms of 5 per cent , but this assumes an inflation rate of 5.75 per cent by the fourth quarter of 1990/91 and a rate of 3 per cent in 1992/93 . |