Example sentences of "[be] [num] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you 're four and a half |
| 2 | You 're four and a half |
| 3 | These are three and a half so they 'd be slightly longer . |
| 4 | nine stone seven , I said what you talking about nine stone seven , I 'm eleven and a half stone , not now you 're not she said |
| 5 | well he should only be eight and a half , I mean they told us he was three and a half when he was rescued . |
| 6 | She must be eight and a half . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're much more sensible than you used to be , but your mum ca n't see it , and my mum still thinks I 'm three and a half . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sixteen and a half , Bean . ’ |
| 9 | I think , I think the Chancellor in the erm , Budget speech on the thirtieth of November actually said that local government increase in spending will be two and a quarter per cent in nineteen ninety-four , five . |
| 10 | yeah cos er , yeah he must be two and a half , cos er |
| 11 | And of course it 'll be four and a half after it 's paid tax , you know if you 've got any tax credits from your nationalized shares , you 'll see those come through , and y you 've got the net return . |
| 12 | History argues that when Arabs and Israelis do not make peace they will make war : there have already been five and a half since Israel 's founding . |
| 13 | The advance of the qualities was dramatic — sales in 1988 were two and a half times those of 1945 , with five quality dailies instead of two . |
| 14 | For every four windows on a Mark 3 standard-class coach there are four and a h–f bays of seats , only the end bays matching the windows and succeeding bays being more tightly spaced so that some passengers are seated against a blank wall . |
| 15 | and probab er probably Thursday morning as , as well , so I 'll probably have Thursday , Friday maybe Saturday , well , oh I should have , because by working on the games Thursday morning , that 's another three hours , that 's , brings me up to , twenty eight , yes twenty eight er er thirty one and er , I 'll , I 've got class top contacts time in the , in the afternoon , so that does n't count , Friday I 've got class , a two hour class , but er , tt , I 'll be working outside , in fact that class will be cancelled that day , so it 's er , so four hours that 's thirty six er , Saturday forty two , Tuesday erm tt , oh that week I 'll have a six for Wednesday er nine Thursday er twelve for Tuesday another twelve , plus the evening twelve , plus two , plus another six , that 's eight and a half , eighteen , another eighteen hours |
| 16 | He is 30 and an optician as well as a professional National Hunt jockey . |
| 17 | Clare , who is 30 and an art tutor , attended the presentation ceremony at The Mall Galleries , London last week . |
| 18 | Robert Hughes is 12 and a pupil at Llantarnam School . |
| 19 | For the past few months my husband , who 's 43 and a smoker , has been getting a sharp pain in the pit of his stomach , which he 's been ‘ curing ’ with a glass of milk . |
| 20 | The appeal relates to two children : a girl , E. , who is six and a boy , C. , who is 2¾ . |
| 21 | Philip Tataurangi is 21 and a demon putter , arguably the boldest and best amateur golf has seen for ten years . |
| 22 | I hate to say you should be American , because of course , no-one should , but this one single evening of Great British Music — Spiritualized , Curve , The Jesus And Mary Chain , in that fixed order — is three and a quarter hours that compounds and crystallises everything that is vibrant and clever and downright sex-mad- filthy about what squares call ‘ alternative ’ . |
| 23 | The date over the door is 1708 and a fire place is dated 1758 , but in an early Parish Register someone from Dubber Beck was buried in 1632 . |
| 24 | She is fourteen and a half , and still in pretty good shape . |
| 25 | That women 's seventy and a day and she 's got the body of a young girl ! |
| 26 | The arrow , which has been repaired in the centre at some time , is twenty-five and a quarter inches long and weighs seven ounces . |
| 27 | Today Odette is five and a half stone lighter and her life has changed in all kinds of ways . |
| 28 | I think it 's nine and a bit now |
| 29 | And as she 's five and a bit weeks old , it 's five weeks |
| 30 | ‘ No , it is one and a quarter , sir , ’ and he was right . ’ |