Example sentences of "three [conj] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 THREE & A HALF MINUTES , Bishop 's Stortford-based snarling guitar four-piece , follow their recent support slots alongside Sultans Of Ping FC with dates at
2 The trap with its missing section of beam had been three and a half feet across , and Harry , taking the envelope bait , had gone through its centre .
3 Three and a half tonnes of home made explosives were inside , needing only seconds to prime .
4 These are these are three and a half inches wide .
5 The ones that you see in the book they 're three and a half inches .
6 Sheila has lost three and a half pounds this week .
7 However , we shall also discuss the changes which have occurred over these three and a half decades .
8 It will also examine changes in the reporting of rape over three and a half decades .
9 You ge yo you must n't take it over er , three and a half things or eighty miles an hour
10 It 's best to do these on the track , but if one is not available , you can do repeats of two and a half to three and a half minutes on the road .
11 Perhaps we 'd say " Three and a half minutes ' .
12 Three and a half minutes left of your lunch hour , quick get back to work .
13 Levein , while in sardonic mood , also ventured the opinion that Robertson might get ‘ three and a half minutes against the Germans ’ .
14 three and a half minutes short , in fact you did it in about eleven and a half minutes .
15 And , if she were here three and a half minutes , that 's all she were 'ere , and it and it 'em fifty quid .
16 Three and a half minutes .
17 Three and a half minutes .
18 I think it said three and a half minutes .
19 Between it and the boundary of the Howardian Hills area of outstanding natural beauty at Foston Bridge , the distance is only three and a half kilometres , just over two miles , there is therefore a narrow corridor not designated either as greenbelt or A O N B , which naturally er comes under rather heavier pressure perhaps than er areas round it might .
20 In a long match like this it is really difficult to play your best for three and a half hours . ’
21 EVEN WITH half a dozen arias omitted , the Opera North production of Mozart 's La Finta Giardiniera makes a long evening , three and a half hours including interval .
22 He points to the fact that the Atlantic can now be crossed in three and a half hours as indisputable evidence that the pace has hotted up , but in his view , the next generation will assimilate such changes .
23 Flying time is three and a half hours and there is no time change .
24 That was less than three and a half hours ago , but it might have been years .
25 There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters .
26 This is unsettling , and makes me realise that for those three and a half hours I have been the still and passive object of her intuition as well as her technical skill .
27 Jo refused to discuss the Oscars ; the whole idea was too exciting to bear serious thought , and besides she knew something about the events of the next three and a half hours that her mother did not , and would not until her name was called .
28 There was another three and a half hours to go .
29 After three and a half hours the stragglers were still coming through .
30 His speech lasted three and a half hours ; most of it he read quickly in an even tone .
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