Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [num] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We arrived at the lake at about 7.30a.m. after approximately a four and a half hour drive to find two lovely lakes , one , with a chalet on stilts , about seventeen acres and another smaller lake by its side about four and a half acres . |
| 2 | Employees who first went through the Heartwatch programme around two and a half years ago will soon be recalled for another assessment . |
| 3 | 2.40:LEADING northern hurdler Coulton gained all his successes last term over two and a half miles and back over the minimum I fancy HALKOPOUS to beat him . |
| 4 | Thus , it would become an offence for a person of either sex to abduct a boy or girl under 16 or a severely mentally handicapped person of either sex with intent to have unlawful sexual intercourse or take part in an act of gross indecency . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Louise : It 's a village about two and a half miles out of town . |
| 7 | However , he took evening classes in some subjects , and started part-time work about three and a half years after the accident . |
| 8 | It will also examine changes in the reporting of rape over three and a half decades . |
| 9 | The Royal Bank branch opened in the town just two and a half years ago . |
| 10 | Compare that attendance figure with the 248,000 visitors over two and a half months to the ‘ Masterworks from Lille ’ exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum , an only averagely successful exhibition by their standards ; the 204,000 to ‘ Sisley ’ at the Royal Academy over two and a half months , and even the 52,000 to ‘ Royal Treasures of Sweden ’ over three months , considered a flop by the R.A. |
| 11 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that a significant number of my right hon. and hon. Friends are bitterly disappointed that during today 's Consolidated Fund Bill debate only one and a half hours have been allocated to discussing pension funds ? |
| 12 | The start of the text is clearly signalled by a rubric about five and a half inches from the top edge of the roll : " " Hic incipit interludium de clerico et puella " " , " Here begins the interlude of the clerk and the girl " . |
| 13 | Ian Ashpole walked across a steel rope just one and a half inches wide almost two miles above the earth . |
| 14 | That means that two-thirds of the population can be expected to sleep between six and a half and eight and a half hours a night , about 16 per cent regularly sleep over eight and a half hours , and another 16 per cent sleep under six and a half hours . |
| 15 | The village of Tickton in East Yorkshire is situated on the Beverley to Bridlington road about two and a half miles north-east of Beverley and separated from it by the river Hull . |
| 16 | Morley Street beat his full brother Granville Again in the slowly-run Elite Hurdle last month , but has since been beaten by Muse over two and a half miles at Ascot . |
| 17 | Now there is a much greater tendency to say if we were able to reduce family size to replacement level , zero population growth , for the developing world about two and a half children per family , by the year two thousand what would the situation look like ? |
| 18 | Depends what er this time of year about three and a half and then four in the winter . |
| 19 | X 19 ins. , two inches thick , with a hole in the middle about three and a half inches in diameter . |
| 20 | After the collapse of the Dwarf empire almost three and a half thousand years ago the Dwarf stronghold of Karak Eight Peaks lay in ruins . |