Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adj] and 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 | Louise : It 's a village about two and a half miles out of town . |
| 5 | However , he took evening classes in some subjects , and started part-time work about three and a half years after the accident . |
| 6 | It will also examine changes in the reporting of rape over three and a half decades . |
| 7 | I think this is rightly so , but there is an advantage to knowing to being slightly more explicit about how you 're doing it , and I think that if a lot of the evaluation that already went on in schools became a little bit more explicit and a little bit more open , it would be much easier for people outside the schools to realize the extent at which schools were themselves already engaging in evaluation . |
| 8 | Christmas dinner around the dining table will be rare treat and John says : ‘ Now the children are growing up , we hope they 'll be a bit more sensible and a bit less like unguided missiles . ’ |
| 9 | She was a big ill-tempered animal cowed by a presence more threatening and a temper more volatile than her own . |
| 10 | The Royal Bank branch opened in the town just two and a half years ago . |
| 11 | I looked along a line of patients and recognized a back still straight and a head still proudly held . |
| 12 | 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. |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Old friendships are broken and replaced by new friends who find significant alcohol or drug use more tolerable and a perpetual round of drink and drug related activities more acceptable . |
| 15 | Mr Browning motioned his wife to be quiet and taking Wilson 's arm conducted her to the door , saying something to the effect that she must not give way to gloomy thoughts and that doubtless she was tired with a young baby still nursing and a house to run . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | Ian Ashpole walked across a steel rope just one and a half inches wide almost two miles above the earth . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Made awkward by his amused scrutiny , she tilted the roll too much and a blob of jam dropped on to her chest between her breasts . |
| 22 | You can get the same sort of information from a Mel Bay book but going to Joe and doing it in a rock/heavy metal format made it a lot more interesting and a lot easier for me to learn . |
| 23 | O'Rourke sells a lot more than Hot Press , he is a lot more entertaining and a hell of a lot more sincere , and I bet that O'Rourke makes a lot more money than the po-faced , sanctimonious utterances on plebs , puffs , poetry and Provos from the likes of gobshites like Higgins , McCann et al will ever generate . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | In my own experience I have found this medium both economic and a very good way of learning the Technique , especially in the initial stages . |
| 26 | Depends what er this time of year about three and a half and then four in the winter . |
| 27 | X 19 ins. , two inches thick , with a hole in the middle about three and a half inches in diameter . |
| 28 | And she , too , had something of the precision and contrived charm of a doll with an almost round head poised ’ on a long delicate neck , a snub nose with a splatter of freckles , a small mouth with a full upper lip beautifully curved and a bristle of cropped hair , originally fair but with bright orange tips which caught the sun and trembled in the breeze so that the whole head seemed for a moment to have a vivid life separated from the rest of her body and , the image changing , he had seen her as a bright exotic flower . |
| 29 | 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 . |