Example sentences of "[num] and a [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | they were married in December 1421 and a son was born at Windsor , but before the boy was nine months old , Henry V died in France . |
| 2 | Coke died in the 1840s and a monument was erected to him at Holkham , guarded by a cudding Devon cow carved in stone . |
| 3 | ‘ Thirteen and a half is a responsible age . |
| 4 | The only one I got was that in his view thirteen and a half was too late for confirmation ; it was best done as a sort of early ‘ double shot ’ — like a jab of cholera with typhoid — along with baptism . |
| 5 | No , twenty eight and a half 's not bad . |
| 6 | Three and a half is about there . |
| 7 | Five and a half , that 's right he is almost exactly five and a half are n't you ? |
| 8 | ‘ On this new album there 's one huge track called The Lighthouse , which a lot of people have heard because I 've been playing it on stage — an hour out of two and a half is this album . |
| 9 | four for two and a go is three . |
| 10 | And Peter forty four and a half is fifth . |
| 11 | I be four I 'm not four and a half am I mum ? |