Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] [coord] a " in BNC.

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1 The bonus erm he only got two and a half grand last year , is he expecting to get some this year and if so what does he normally do with the money .
2 Say the town had only got three and a bit thousand people anyhow , three thousand people , erm there was very very little actual passenger traffic .
3 The Carrick men could only manage two and a half points from their top of the table clash with Lisnagarvey ( 85-79 ) , but they still could be in with a chance when they meet Gilnahirk next week .
4 The Carrick men could only manage two and a half points from their top of the table clash with Lisnagarvey ( 85–79 ) , but they still could be in with a chance when they meet Gilnahirk next week .
5 One Sunday afternoon , when Dana and I were sitting on the edge of the bed working over versions of various poems , the door , which we always left unlocked , suddenly burst open and a group of surly-looking students entered , led by a big bully who was not Spanish but Venezuelan .
6 Derived from two Persian words — zar and nim ( half ) — it literally means one and a half zars .
7 They were also at the stage when they still found funny voices funny , and Charles had his best audience in years for his Welsh , developed for Under Milk Wood ( ‘ A production which demonstrated everything the theatre can offer , except talent ’ — Nottingham Evening Post ) , his Cornish , as used in Love 's Labour 's Lost ( ‘ Charles Paris 's Costard was about as funny as an obituary notice ’ — New Statesman ) and the voice he had used as a Chinese Broker 's Man in Aladdin ( ‘ My watch said that the show only lasted two and a half hours , so I 've taken it to be repaired ’ — Glasgow Herald ) .
8 With domestic cats it means that , every so often , the old ‘ standby ’ diet suddenly becomes unattractive and a brief change is required .
9 Dun Telve is now in Government care : much remains intact but a large part of its stone was robbed by local farmers in centuries past .
10 More money was soon made available and a plan for expansion drawn up by an official from the BBC in London .
11 we 've already got four and a half boxes
12 The operation , which normally takes two and a half hours , lasted twice as long , allowing the surgeons and systems engineers to mix the robot technology with traditional procedures .
13 After netting a lazy backhand to hand Stafford a place in the third round after two hours and 21 minutes Sampras said : ‘ I just felt tired and a little lethargic on court .
14 After netting a lazy backhand to hand Stafford a place in the third round after two hours and 21 minutes Sampras said : ‘ I just felt tired and a little lethargic on court .
15 Originally intended to have taken the form of a binding Convention , it was watered down to a " Statement " as a result of concerted lobbying by a number of timber-exporting countries , led by Malaysia , which viewed it as an attack on sovereignty , and accused northern countries of hypocrisy , given the fact that they had already destroyed all but a tiny fraction of their own virgin forests .
16 The son of Rainbow Quest was always up with the leaders that day , clearly enjoying himself on the easy ground and eventually racing three and a half lengths clear .
17 The life of this Government still has four and a half years to run , a terrifying prospect for us all .
18 Found in savanna woodland and grassland wherever there is such terrain throughout subsaharan Africa , the warthog is one of the classic wild pigs , an animal whose distinctive countenance seems to stick in the mind of anyone who 's ever seen one or a picture of one .
19 to play with really er we c to clear ten we 've still got two and a half grand left
20 I see no reason whatsoever for a council that will still have two and a half million pounds in balances after the labour group proposals , why on earth we need to build another hundred thousand pounds into the budget , paid for by er council tax payers to provide for unforeseen expenditure .
21 ‘ I 'm still ring rusty but a couple of weeks ’ hard work before the European Cup should see me all right . ’
22 He once went five and a half years unbeaten and he is still as modest as a mouse .
23 You will also get ten and a half public and privilege holidays each ear .
24 She also remembered five and a half years of girlish dreams and fading hopes .
25 Transcendental Meditation now has three and a half million followers worldwide .
26 Having made a perfect pain of myself ( not very hard ) on the Edelrid stand last year , it 's good to see their Full Carbon Helmet now has elastic and a headtorch clip front and back .
27 The area around the mill pond has also been landscaped , the whole site now looking magnificent and a credit to its new owners .
28 Coriolanus is seen as a magnificent warrior , a psychologically damaged mother-worshipper and a potential threat to an evolving republic .
29 The father of the little boy concerned , who is now approaching six and a half years of age , seeks an order of the court in this country that the defendant ( the child 's mother ) shall return the child to the jurisdiction of the court in Ontario , which is in fact presently seized of custody applications relating to the child in the context of divorce proceedings between the father and the mother .
30 As the submarine nosed around the island 's waters for three days , often making one and a half knots or less , there were a number of unanswered questions .
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