Example sentences of "[was/were] [num] [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advance of the qualities was dramatic — sales in 1988 were two and a half times those of 1945 , with five quality dailies instead of two . |
| 2 | Fifteen and a half Er well no I was nineteen and a half then you see , five years is n't it . |
| 3 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
| 4 | well he should only be eight and a half , I mean they told us he was three and a half when he was rescued . |
| 5 | " I was 11 and a half stone ( 160lb/73kg ) when I began the WNAS diet . |
| 6 | Gustave met Mme Schlesinger at Trouville : he was fourteen and a half , she twenty-six . |
| 7 | The house itself was 1914 or a bit earlier , steeply pitched slate roofs and high chimneys : bijou Lutyens for the leaner purse . |
| 8 | She was five and a half when she entered school for the first time . |
| 9 | ‘ After my father died , when I was five and a half , she used to make me bath myself all alone . |
| 10 | And Terry was nine and a half . |
| 11 | When my teenage son heard that the visitor was 60 and a bachelor , there was silence . |
| 12 | When she was two and a half , we all went on holiday in France with the two boys . |
| 13 | I took my parents when I , my son was two and a half , and I can honestly say that my son , I was n't able to devote as much time as I would have wanted to give . |
| 14 | Er , I I had to care for my elderly parents when my son was two and a half and I had a six month old baby and er , I would agree with the previous speaker , it certainly does change your life . |
| 15 | I started school to er Bowvale School on Dovecote Lane at Eastwood , when I was two and a half . |
| 16 | ‘ She was four and a half when I first saw her , ’ explained Libby . |
| 17 | He was killed by a needle-like instrument ( punctured wound the report says , but it was four and a quarter inches deep ) going into his kidney , renal artery , peritoneum and loop of jejunem . |
| 18 | To tell me he would , she would come when he was four and a quarter . |
| 19 | I first started when I was seven and a half . |