Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Taylor : As many of the laws that used to be made in the House of Commons are now made by the Council of Ministers , and as we can discuss its decisions for only one and a half hours after 10 o'clock at night , does the Lord President agree that this makes nonsense of democracy and deprives the public of the knowledge of what is going on ? |
| 2 | Mr for the defendant effectively accepts that , but says that having regard to Mr er undoubted success in regard to provision of one to one assistance in relation to other children , some of whom are less disabled than Paul , that I should try and look to local authority will provide thirty hours assistance or thereabouts after say eighteen months and that therefore in this regard the defendant should pay for only one and a half years of er enabler 's time . |
| 3 | They got off to a great start when they almost scored after just two and a half minutes , when Jim Magilton fed Lee Nogan , and his left foot shot was brilliantly saved by Eric Torsvale , tipping the ball all round the post for a corner . |
| 4 | After about four and a half hours of driving , Sadler calculated that they were one mile away from the target , although there was absolutely nothing to see . |
| 5 | of three to five-year-olds receive pre-school education , and a substantial proportion of them have a school day of only two and a half hours . |
| 6 | The first thing to remember is that the England and Wales of 1700 has a total population of only five and a half million people . |
| 7 | ‘ We had never realised what hard work is actually involved in producing a programme of this kind and , with the added pressure of only five and a half hours in the city , we had our work cut out . |
| 8 | In the first a female employee received a potentially fatal electric shock of perhaps five and a half thousand volts while testing ovens for high voltage leakage . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The test of outrage was also considered , and was countered by evidence that in the two years from July 1973 to June 1975 , the film had been shown in 475 cinemas before an audience of approximately one and a half million people without a single complaint to the police or any local authorities until the present case . |
| 11 | It stands in its own grounds of approximately one and a half acres and from its elevated position has spectacular views . |
| 12 | A man qualified enough then , to select , out of a choice of just 12 and a half million , what he regards as the best pictures in the collection . |
| 13 | That does I think form a significant element because it makes a difference of nearly two and a half thousand dwellings . |
| 14 | basic of about eight and a half of something |
| 15 | It is the chief active ingredient in vinegar but the world 's consumption of about two and a half million tonnes per year is used for more than sprinkling on fish and chips . |
| 16 | By the end of July an advance of about two and a half miles had been made on a front which at this depth did not exceed two miles . ’ |
| 17 | In , the typical overhead of indexes and related files leads to a final size of about two and a half times the size of the corresponding serial file . |
| 18 | It would entail a coach trip of about two and a half hours each way . |
| 19 | The child , a boy of about two and a half , was unconscious and bleeding from a gash on his head . |
| 20 | I mean I 've only got some figures here up to the twenty fourth of February , and in that particular week we sold about thirteen and a half thousand U K holidays , as against the week last year of about five and a half , so we 've obviously seen a fairly major growth in U K holidays , but , as I said , we spent about a hundred thousand pounds on promotion , so we 're very pleased with the uptake of business coming in . |
| 21 | On the mantelshelf behind him there was a photograph of a pretty , smiling , dark-haired woman , a boy of about ten and a girl a few years younger . |
| 22 | Shucksmith ( 1981 ) found waiting lists of over 1,200 and a housing stock of only 2,169 in the Lake District National Park , while Phillips and Williams ( 1982a ) found a waiting list of about 1,000 and a stock of some 4,500 dwellings in South Hams , Devon . |
| 23 | We saw a ‘ pairing-up ’ ceremony , between two young people : a Japanese girl of about 15 and a boy who was slightly younger . |
| 24 | That means we are looking at having to dispose of around two and a half million tons of wet sewage every year by the end of the century , and the law says that we will not be able to dispose of it at sea . ’ |
| 25 | A pH of around 7–7.5 and a temperature of 82–84°s ; should also be aimed for . |
| 26 | But it is complicated and I er mean really for the average investor , unless you 're a non-taxpayer , because the in er the income from the gilts is gross , it may be worth er it may be worth a non-taxpayer holding gilts , and er getting a gross yield of maybe eight and a quarter , nine percent . |
| 27 | In this backward , square or forward short leg position he held most of his 375 catches , a startlingly high average of almost one and a half catches per match . |
| 28 | A gain of 400 in the first amplifier/filter will then produce an output of almost two and a half volts from the total earth 's field vector , avoiding overload and permitting a peak-to-peak measurement by rotating the core . |
| 29 | Erm the cost of sales is two and a half million pounds which gives us a gross profit of almost two and a half million pounds . |
| 30 | The second is that from the Cherwell boathouse to the point where the tragedy occurred is a distance of over two and a half miles , including a strenuous portage , and took us nearly an hour . |