Example sentences of "[num] [conj] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are the high-rise towers around the edge of Newcastle with a motorway fifty or a hundred yards from their windows . |
| 2 | And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better . |
| 3 | rebuild er every fifty or a hundred years or whatever ? |
| 4 | People are anyway going to try and look for , lo look for explanations , and it may be that , you know , in fifty or a hundred years ' time , peoples insight into , into Freud 's findings are different . |
| 5 | And this is my personal view , as you know I think that people see , er , Freud completely differently in fifty or a hundred years ' time . |
| 6 | Angers is within easy reach of Paris ( 2 and a half hours by train ) , Brittany and the Mont-St-Michel , perhaps France 's most beautiful monument . |
| 7 | But he 'd have to wait at least another 2 and a half hours — that 's how long Mae Luz 's flight from Manila was delayed . |
| 8 | For the first time in 2 and a half centuries , the Rococo Garden at Painswick is dominated by a Gothic screen called an exedra . |
| 9 | You would be totally unaffected by it , okay , now there is one way that you might think camp ons are quite strange , and that is , if you 've got a camp on on , right , and somebody 's engaged , but they 're engaged for longer than 75 seconds , you get a ring back , but you do n't get a successful ring back , you get a ring back of the same long , say 2 and a half seconds , it might ring engaged , okay , if the person 's still engaged . |
| 10 | . they were the last words he spoke for 2 and a half years |
| 11 | It was the day Keith Capon had waited 2 and a half years for . |
| 12 | In the saddle Simon Goodman , the man who 's spent every waking hour of the last 2 and a half years creating a machine to recapture the excitement of classic British motorcycling . |
| 13 | Today he admitted serving 2 and a half years in jail for violent assults on women . |
| 14 | That was 2 and a half years ago . |
| 15 | Third , since the APB wants to ensure that the debate which it intends the paper to stimulate does not get confined to the Big Six and a few others , it is to go on a whistlestop tour of the country over the next three months , holding discussion meetings with interested parties . |
| 16 | It 's six and a half minutes to six . |
| 17 | Twenty three minutes , no no no it 's not twenty three Martin , you 're not reading the clock correctly , it 's twenty six and a half minutes away from nine o'clock , they 're still playing down at Lane so they 're getting er enough time down there to er get stuck into er all the injury time . |
| 18 | The executions began at midnight on Saturday and were completed six and a half hours later . |
| 19 | On full fuel tanks of five hundred litres , each rig has a road range of one thousand kilometres , or can operate in river current speeds of two metres a second ( about four knots ) for about six and a half hours without refuelling . |
| 20 | It was a gentle enough life and it took only six and a half hours to travel home by taxi from Beirut to Jaffa . |
| 21 | A total of six and a half hours and we were over the small , dying town of Wyndham . |
| 22 | Around six and a half hours are allowed in which to complete the race ; a search party is sent after that ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In just six and a half hours he has produced the Matterhorn . |
| 25 | I worked for a month then I went to the dyers and cleaners and I came home to Ipswich in the , on the Easter time and I started work as a turnboy on the dredger at Ipswich at thirty five shillings a week for fi sixty six and a half hours a week , starting from Monday morning at six o'clock to six o'clock Monday night . |
| 26 | The ship left there shortly after midnight but it was six and a half hours before the seamen were discovered missing . |
| 27 | and a cable tidy , that sounds quite good , these are half price things for ten days only There 's a remote control colour television for one thirty nine , ninety nine , save fifty pounds they 've got the dear tapes here look , erm six and a half hours video tapes , recommended price seven ninety nine can get for three ninety nine and there 's another one here three pack , twelve hours video tape for six ninety nine must end Saturday November the twenty ninth , oh perhaps I 'll buy you one of those , oh I have bought you a birthday present have n't I ? |
| 28 | so let's order two for us and that 'll give us five and a half , six and a half boxes |
| 29 | Willie Jarvis 's three-year-old has won his last two races by a total of six and a half lengths and is still well weighted for further success . |
| 30 | As I 'm six and a half feet tall , it 's difficult to get jeans to fit me . |