Example sentences of "[conj] [num] and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dakletons have a crew of seven or eight and a patrol time of six hours . |
| 2 | You do not mention whether you are using Windows 3.0 or 3.1 and the procedure is slightly different in each . |
| 3 | Two of the dead were children , a girl aged about eight or nine and a boy of about eleven years , they were travelling together , but otherwise unaccompanied . |
| 4 | The age of the full-time judiciary has remained constant over many years : the average on appointment has been about fifty-two or -three and the average of all those in office has been about sixty . |
| 5 | Then they were all friends together , but within an hour or two and a pint or two , or three or four , of rough cider or scrumpy , how their personalities changed . |
| 6 | Saying , if I get a farm with cows and sheep and a five-bar gate and chickens and a coop and a metal stream and a few trees about the place and a green field made of billiard cloth and a dog or two and a cat — never mind the cat — and perhaps a fox on a hill … if I get this , with a pair of ball-bearing roller skates so that I can gleam and flash and go backwards through the heavy Friday traffic and be as glamorous as Boy Davids from the Park … |
| 7 | ( Botticker had similarly gone through multiple plate glass windows — real glass , in fact , primed with explosive charges , not plastic ones — with no more than a cut or two and a designer-plaster . ) |
| 8 | Sue feels that 1992 and the opening of the Channel Tunnel will present new challenges and greater competition . |
| 9 | Even towards the end of 1920 , the coal-mines produced less than one-tenth and the iron-and-steel works less than one twentieth of their pre-war output . |
| 10 | Well , I think I ca n't stretch the secretary 's report much longer than one and a half |
| 11 | If she had a guest it was never more than one and the hour was always the same . |
| 12 | Pocket sprung mattresses can cope with weight differences of up to four stone , but if you and your partner 's weight differs by more than four and a half stone ( 30kg ) your best bet is a pair of ‘ zip-and-link ’ mattresses . |
| 13 | From a frightening ratio of expenditure to fares revenue of four to one , the ratio has improved to better than two and a half to one and it is stili improving . |
| 14 | How would they shake down in such a confined space with what amounted to more than two and a half ? |
| 15 | The award is higher where the employer is found to have discriminated against the employee under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 , the Sex Discrimination Acts 1975 and 1986 and the Race Relations Act 1976. ( iv ) Special award Special awards are made where a dismissal relates to trade union membership . |
| 16 | So , and eight and a half for that one . |
| 17 | The director whose most famous films include the and Eight and a Half will be buried in the family crypt in his home town of Rimini . |
| 18 | The pH remains between 7 and 7.5 and the water is moderately hard . |
| 19 | Example 4 gives a comparison between a single-note melody in bars 1 and 2 and the melody harmonised in 4ths in bars 3 and 4 . |
| 20 | And that plane went on to set a world air speed record of six hundred and six and a quarter miles per hour . |
| 21 | And that plane went on to set a world air speed record of six hundred and six and a quarter miles per hour . |
| 22 | What was the name of the plane that went on to set a world air speed record of six hundred and six and a quarter miles per hour . |
| 23 | The first pay they got was two the the first I remember people gillying for the Stenness Hotel , their pay was two and six and a gill of whisky . |
| 24 | In all these solutions the space-time can only be extended uniquely up to the fold singularities in regions II and III and the surface in region IV on which . |
| 25 | ( 1979 ) produced isopleths of precipitation acidity for selected periods which revealed increasing acidity between 1955–6 and 1975–6 and an enlargement of the area affected by acid precipitation in eastern North America . |
| 26 | With a deficit of 552 and thirteen and a quarter hours left , obviously only the weather was going to save England , so there was not the least justification for the barrage of short balls that Holding and Roberts hurled at Edrich and Close . |
| 27 | Support can be seen in the upsurge of working-class activity that accompanied the strikes of 1978 and 1979 and the way that the union 's leader , Lula , became such a popular figure . |
| 28 | Although two of its directors were killed during the fighting between 1975 and 1979 and the building suffered badly from neglect , most of the National Museum 's collection survived . |
| 29 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will give the total of manufacturing investment in 1990 and 1991 and the percentage fall ( a ) in cash terms and ( b ) in real terms . |
| 30 | Research International says that the proportion of farmers under 35 dropped from 39 to 14 per cent between 1987 and 1991 and the number with under 10 years ' experience dropped from 10 per cent to four per cent . |