Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] two [conj] 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 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | to play with really er we c to clear ten we 've still got two and a half grand left |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | By 10.30 he had gone down the full length of the corridor that ran past his office and he had then spent two and a half hours in H3 's laboratory . |
| 9 | Almost universally , the opinion is that the trial should never have taken place , which is of little comfort to the defendants who , they say , have effectively lost two and a half years of their lives . |
| 10 | Pompeii is the most popular archaeological site in Europe , currently attracting two and a half million people a year , and the present exhibition has already drawn an audience of nearly three-quarters of a million in the USA and Sweden . |