Example sentences of "four and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In many ways the Crown Prince 's relationship to his stern father bears a passing resemblance to that of the Prince of Wales and King George V. Like his cousin , he was intensely bored by pomp and ceremony ; after an official visit to Konigsberg , he dispatched a typical wire to the Kaiser , reporting ‘ seventy-five speeches , four and a half hours ’ duration and the usual horrible banquet ’ On another occasion , he was actually placed under house arrest by the Kaiser for skipping a state function . |
| 32 | Reports of the pay freeze leaked out after the Cabinet spent another four and a half hours trying to hold public spending to next year 's target of £244.5bn . |
| 33 | So perhaps four and a half hours , if we do n't get held up on the M twenty five , four and a half hours would do so that , if we leave here at two , we could be there , you know , well by seven . |
| 34 | So perhaps four and a half hours , if we do n't get held up on the M twenty five , four and a half hours would do so that , if we leave here at two , we could be there , you know , well by seven . |
| 35 | I 've got a large carrying case for an electronic organ keyboard er I want to sell , it 's it 'll take a keyboard erm forty one inches long by forty inches wide and four and a half inches deep and it 's all sort of shaped inside with the lining to the shape of the keyboard and nice strong box . |
| 36 | Four and a half cases full . |
| 37 | ‘ If a similar crime clock for industrial deaths were constructed … and recalling that this clock ticks only for that half of the population that is in the labour force — this clock would show an industrial death about every four and a half minutes ! |
| 38 | Four and a half minutes later the Brandywell club were level . |
| 39 | we 've already got four and a half boxes |
| 40 | We 've done a quick calculation of interview sheets that we think we , we need , I need two boxes for Caernarfon , Jan needs three , we 've got four and a half boxes already , we were gon na order two just to be on the same safe , but we 're just looking into erm whether we need , how many we need on the R S I 's on the M sixty three cos we might as well order them all together , save |
| 41 | She did not go up to London to see her lover without first drawing fifteen pounds out of her bank account , and thinking up a convincing story to tell her parents , and packing a good book to read on the train ( it was U.S.A. by John dos Passos , and she had read four and a half pages of it before she had been interrupted by her neighbour 's knee ) , and looking up her lover 's address in the A to Z. |
| 42 | However , what if you have enough stitches , for , say , four and a half repeats ? |
| 43 | For example , supposing you 're knitting pattern 1–10 ( Fig. 1 ) which is 24 stitches wide , and your knitting is 108 stitches wide so you have space for four and a half repeats . |
| 44 | If the number of pleats across the knitting includes a half-repeat , with the pattern positioned symmetrically as above four and a half repeats would fall on the knitting as in Fig 7 . |
| 45 | Four and a half days , or weekend offers are available , based on bed and breakfast or hotel accommodation . |
| 46 | This cloth could be had off the baulk in length by the ell , a measurement approximating forty-four inches , with four and a half ells considered sufficient for the purpose . |
| 47 | I want to welcome obviously particularly er the order relating to Wales because it confers on Wales er one additional seat , giving us five altogether because of the rise in the Welsh population over the last ten years and that er although Wales was under represented under the previous erm er you know distribution of seats which gave us only four we will be slightly over represented when we have five because you simply ca n't have four and a half seats , it 's got to be one or the other but since the Welsh population is continuing to rise very rapidly then it is likely that that will be put right . |
| 48 | Boeing jetliners touch down every four and a half seconds of every day . |
| 49 | Erm , I personally prefer litres , but I transmit that the four and half litres about four and a half litres |
| 50 | ‘ Tides carrying us , we 're still making about four and a half knots over the ground . |
| 51 | A terrific finish to four and a half miles of the world 's greatest steeplechase . |
| 52 | Four and a half years , he wrote . |
| 53 | Today no-one — with the possible exception of members of his family - seriously believes that Wallenberg is still alive somewhere in what is left of the Gulag Archipelago , four and a half years into perestroika . |
| 54 | General Council 's action in support of the miners and wool textile workers signaled a turn in the tide , the beginning of a definite stand against the policy of wage reductions which economic conditions have enabled the employers to impose in the last four and a half years . |
| 55 | The time of proving himself was over ; John Cranko now held an official and important post in the Sadler 's Wells organization , only four and a half years after arriving in Britain as a student at the Sadler 's Wells school . |
| 56 | The next four and a half years were a waking nightmare for the Keenans , especially for Brian 's sisters Brenda Gillham and Elaine Spence . |
| 57 | After four and a half years of war involving food and clothes rationing , and bombing , and losing friends , the sight of these large , prosperous , untouched-by-anything foreigners parading round the streets , chatting up anything in skirts , was profoundly irritating . |
| 58 | Four and a half years later I am returning with three of my children and my husband . |
| 59 | After saving up my hard-earned wages for the past four and a half years I managed to scrape the 1750 or so quid together and bought myself the most stunning quilted maple P.R.S. Custom you ever saw . |
| 60 | The court heard that while on bail Hart , who was also banned from driving for four and a half years , was caught behind the wheel in a pub car park but refused to take breath tests . |