Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead we 've had limp-wristed pardoners , a well paid return after a couple of years and now the insult of Johnson being only 10 and a bit seconds from another Olympic final . |
| 2 | So six and a half for that one . |
| 3 | She was n't the shape for running , she decided , although she was growing taller suddenly — too tall for her liking , because Midnight was only fourteen and a bit hands . |
| 4 | I 'm only ten and a half stone |
| 5 | I was not quite five feet eight inches high , weighed only nine and a half stone , and found it uncomfortable to stand without arch-supports even for the duration of a hymn in church . |
| 6 | So on top of the five shows and rehearsals every day at the Rex , they did another four at the Olympia and did not even receive double salaries but only one and a half . |
| 7 | It 's only one and a half . |
| 8 | ‘ She has given her final view today and although only 15 and a half , she knows her own mind . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We can cut it down to three hours , perhaps two and a half . ’ |
| 10 | He was only four and a half when his father died . |
| 11 | It 's nine yeah so four and a half . |
| 12 | I wanted to join in , but I was only two and a half , and this was the first time I had been left with people I did n't know . |
| 13 | I play Elmo and he 's only two and a half so it means I can play like that . |
| 14 | She ca n't half talk , she 's only two and a half but aye and when she sets off that 's it . |
| 15 | The average rating is thus 100 because a child of ten years old with a mental age of ten will score 100 : — |
| 16 | Easthall , where most of the technical in-depth analyses took place , has a population of approximately 5,000 and a housing stock of 1,000 three apartment flats . |
| 17 | Five and a half , that 's right he is almost exactly five and a half are n't you ? |
| 18 | Minus one wing it was carefully moved inside with just two and a half inches clearance from the tail and the side of the building ! |
| 19 | The Department of Health was alerted last year when it was revealed that the mother of one child , aged just two and a half , had made purchases without prescription from Mr O'Reilly 's pharmacy . |
| 20 | It is equally an offence to administer drugs to a woman for a similar purpose or to procure a girl under 21 or a defective to have sexual intercourse with a third party in any part of the world . |
| 21 | Under the Sexual Offences Act 1956 , ss.5 and 6 , it is an offence punishable with a maximum of life imprisonment for a man to have sexual intercourse with a girl under 13 and an offence punishable with a maximum of two years ’ imprisonment if the girl is under 16 . |
| 22 | Indeed , nearly one in five of all temporary workers are under 20 and a quarter of all teenagers in the labour force work on a temporary basis . |
| 23 | Nearly 1,200 and a petition of 467 names objected . |
| 24 | I 've put on nearly two and a half stone |
| 25 | The UK car market has plummted from a peak in 1992 when nearly two and a half milklion vehicles were sold . |
| 26 | Nearly four and a half |
| 27 | basic of about eight and a half of something |
| 28 | Even though I was about eight and a half . |
| 29 | he should be about eight and a half , he 's rescued . |
| 30 | room 's only about eleven and a half , because you get the back room , the front room and then it goes in a bit |