Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She puts her intellect to work on why she 's been such a pain for the last 50 years , and ends up a little less smug and a lot less married . |
| 2 | So perhaps four and a half hours , if we do n't get held up on the M twenty five , four and a half hours would do so that , if we leave here at two , we could be there , you know , well by seven . |
| 3 | Cos it can take apparently about two and a half hours to get into Nottingham from erm some of those areas . |
| 4 | I was only about five and a half when she too died after a long illness and one of my earliest recollections is riding in the well , at the foot of her bath-chair when she went out for constitutionals . |
| 5 | room 's only about eleven and a half , because you get the back room , the front room and then it goes in a bit |
| 6 | Oxygen itself has been present in significant amounts in the atmosphere for only about two and a half billion years — just over half the total life of our planet ; and there had already been a billion years of evolution before that . |
| 7 | The two tanks hold 400,000 gallons of water , which was sufficient in 1916 to last South Holderness for two days but would now last only about two and a half hours . |
| 8 | she was only about two and a half there |
| 9 | But these were only partially successful and a much more systematic assault on the question of poverty came from the capital , with a mixed reception from the local gentry . |
| 10 | Already one running champion had been crowned , the diminutive Portuguese Rosa Mota , winner of the women 's marathon in just under two and a half hours . |
| 11 | Just under two and a half acres of land untouched for centuries is at stake . |
| 12 | Follow the road from Florence , and just about two and a half miles before you reach the town of Greve , high on ups , stands a crenellated renaissance castle . |
| 13 | The debt 's already over seven and a half thousand pounds and rising . |
| 14 | The diameter is just over twelve and a half thousand kilometres . ’ |
| 15 | Tarvaras was just over twelve and a half thousand kilometres in diameter and the Simonova was orbiting approximately thirty-six thousand kilometres above the surface . |
| 16 | Just over five and a half years later , I stood on the same spot and watched the Israelis drive down the same road to be greeted in precisely the same way by the same Christians on the same balconies . |
| 17 | The Advanced Courses Development Programme Central Support Unit was established on a short term basis just over two and a half years ago with the task of co-ordinating the development of the new system of advanced courses . |
| 18 | But it 's only just over two and a half years since the village Post Office and shop put up the shutters for the last time . |
| 19 | Tony is favourite to win the Scottish masters Competition which started at Westburn Park today … first prize is worth just over two and a half thousand pounds … |
| 20 | Jacqueline 's weight dropped from 10 stone to just over 4 and a half stone by the time of her death on December 23rd last year . |
| 21 | My first experience of service with HM forces was when I was just over three and a half . |
| 22 | I 'm actually about just over ten and a half stone now . |
| 23 | If there are aspects of the science of art that Kemp fails to engage adequately , the scope of this book is nevertheless very impressive and a number of the issues he discusses impinge on my concerns as an historian of science . |
| 24 | He was part of her past now , and the future was a little more serious and a lot more dedicated . |
| 25 | And Terry Maher was also upbeat , predicting that publishing would ‘ slowly become a little more efficient and a little more commercial ’ ( and , of course , that the Net Book Agreement would receive further setbacks in the year ) , although he expressed worry about VAT being imposed on books . |
| 26 | Just a little more intense and a touch more desperate . |
| 27 | It shows , I think , that although the tramp is physically grotesque , he is actually pure at heart , like a ‘ ruined temple ’ which , although a wreck and a complete mess , is still arguably sacred and a place of purity . |
| 28 | When Leeds City arrived for their meeting with the Gunners ( which they lost 1–0 ) , on 6 December , 1913 , the Highbury ground was still only half-finished and a wooden stand on the east side , designed for 9,000 spectators , was still being built . |
| 29 | Half an hour spent in his wife 's elegant and comfortable drawing room was usually more productive and a great deal more entertaining than hours spent beavering through official files . |
| 30 | According to it did not seem to make much difference to tax on income differentials , rich peasants were still about two and a half times better off than poor peasants . |