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

No	Sentence
1	Malcolm 's return brought him a straight push for three and a ninth Test hundred , but he immediately drove half-heartedly at Hemmings and gave Gooch a simple catch at mid-on .
2	Do you know the share he bought for ten p each last week went down to three and a half pence each .
3	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 .
4	Well I do n't know , but it , it is a long way down , people who do n't know Lord 's , you have to come down from , er and er perhaps they 're not quite ready , but it is there must have taken , I do n't , next time perhaps put the clock on it , but this must be a three minute or three and a half minute .
5	I think ours is thirty three and a half Ruth I think
6	Three and a half tonnes of home made explosives were inside , needing only seconds to prime .
7	These are these are three and a half inches wide .
8	The ones that you see in the book they 're three and a half inches .
9	Met at airport , change money , three and a half hour drive in the cool morning to Yalikavak .
10	Sheila has lost three and a half pounds this week .
11	‘ In my lunch hour I run a three and a half mile circuit of the village where I work .
12	In only its third year of operating the three and a half mile branch between Bodmin General and Bodmin Parkway , the B & W has established itself as a major leisure attraction and is building a reputation as one of the more progressive preserved railways in the country .
13	The three and a half mile line running between Hammersmith and Riddings Junction with intermediate stations at Butterley and Swanwick Junction was originally opened in 1875 and acquired by the Midland at a later date .
14	Piloted by BC 's own GEC Stephenson diesel shunter , the 1950's built tank heaved 16 wagon-long loaded trains down their three and a half mile long mineral line under the M6 Motorway to exchange sidings with British Rail .
15	However , we shall also discuss the changes which have occurred over these three and a half decades .
16	It will also examine changes in the reporting of rape over three and a half decades .
17	You ge yo you must n't take it over er , three and a half things or eighty miles an hour
18	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 .
19	Perhaps we 'd say " Three and a half minutes ' .
20	Three and a half minutes left of your lunch hour , quick get back to work .
21	Levein , while in sardonic mood , also ventured the opinion that Robertson might get ‘ three and a half minutes against the Germans ’ .
22	three and a half minutes short , in fact you did it in about eleven and a half minutes .
23	And , if she were here three and a half minutes , that 's all she were 'ere , and it and it 'em fifty quid .
24	Three and a half minutes .
25	Three and a half minutes .
26	I think it said three and a half minutes .
27	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 .
28	In a long match like this it is really difficult to play your best for three and a half hours . ’
29	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 .
30	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 .