Example sentences of "[conj] a [num] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bad news is that the eight-way — and seven-way — machines will not be single-image systems but two fours — or a four and a three — tied together in an MP configuration , so that software has to be loaded on each side . |
| 2 | It may take five years , he wrote , or it may take ten , or a hundred or a thousand , but sooner or later everything in the mausoleum will be affected and everything in all the other mausoleums in the city , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the country , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the world . |
| 3 | But the negative motive is not the whole of it ; Athens was anxious about her own supplies of grain in the mid-fifth century , and benefited in 445/4 from a massive gift of corn — 30,000 medimnoi , or a million and a half daily rations — from an Egyptian prince ‘ Psammetichos ’ ( Philochorus F 119 = Fornara 86 ) . |
| 4 | Or a three or a six . |
| 5 | More than a million and a half children — one in eight — live in these one-parent families . |
| 6 | In 1986 , the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) , estimated that there were just over a million ( 1,010 thousand ) one parent families in Great Britain caring for more than a million and a half ( 1.6 million children ) . |
| 7 | In the previous half-century it could not have been more than a million and a half in all . |
| 8 | More than a million and a half Palestinians live in the occupied territories , their treatment prompted repeated accusations by western governments as well as those in the Middle East , that Israel 's crackdown has been too harsh , at times undisciplined ; one image of violence by Israeli forces aroused world-wide condemnation . |
| 9 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 10 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 11 | An impending thirtieth birthday and a two and a half year-old daughter called Sophie have n't turned her fashion tastes one whit . |
| 12 | Thank you Chairman , I , I , I 'm rather amazed actually , at Colonel 's er , comments because er , in Stratton St Margaret there has been a sixty-one percent increase in crime , and a four and a half percent detection , decrease in the detection and prosecution of crime , and I was absolutely amazed when he come out with the figure that there 's going to be a seven hundred and fifty- three thousand pound shortfall in the police budget , when on the radio , in my car this morning , from a very reputable source of Wiltshire , there was a police officer on there this morning , saying how good they were in producing a freebee newspaper for distribution to every household in the county , to show the police offi , the Chief Constable 's report this year . |
| 13 | The operation follows an armed robbery at a village post post office near Reading and a 2 and a half hour police chase during which an inspector was shot at . |