Example sentences of "four and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Siberian crane stands four and a half feet tall , its brilliant white plumage offset by a blood-red beak , face and legs . |
| 2 | Officers strutted in their brightest breacan-feiles ; the same length of a finer cloth , four and a half feet wide , held at the waist by a silver-buckled belt to fall double thickness , and the outside layer at the back drawn up over the left shoulder and pinned with a great silver brooch . |
| 3 | The effect of Christian Democrat hegemony for four and a half decades has been the perpetual incumbency of a small circle of politicians . |
| 4 | Those who had to live with the legacy of Cold War did not necessarily have a future that was any clearer or simpler than those who inherited the remains of Hitler 's Europe four and a half decades earlier . |
| 5 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 6 | The Russia of 1880 lifted less than 1.5 per cent of Europe 's coal ; to the greatly enlarged production of 1900 she contributed 3.6 per cent — about four and a half times as much . |
| 7 | This year 's spending of £6.5 million is four and a half times the level of two years ago . |
| 8 | That is my Game Boy four times over and even yeah four and a half times over . |
| 9 | Japanese , it 's a massive one , one er , it 's a thirty thousand gallon erm pond and it 's got , and it goes through a filter box and it 's four and a half tons of erm four and a half tons and that is a lot of |
| 10 | Japanese , it 's a massive one , one er , it 's a thirty thousand gallon erm pond and it 's got , and it goes through a filter box and it 's four and a half tons of erm four and a half tons and that is a lot of |
| 11 | Yeah , well , no it 's a one day course then I 've got four and a half things af , you know follow on |
| 12 | P&O European Ferries ( 0304 203388 ) has five sailings a day in each direction from Dover to Zeebrugge : crossing time four and a half hours . |
| 13 | Instead , he was out first thing next morning for 110 and Gower declared at 300 for 9 , leaving West Indies to make 342 in four and a half hours and twenty overs . |
| 14 | On one day in March 1969 , four and a half hours were spent on points of order and discussing the confidentiality of attendance records . |
| 15 | The result is an evening of Wagnerian dimension spread over four and a half hours . |
| 16 | After about four and a half hours of driving , Sadler calculated that they were one mile away from the target , although there was absolutely nothing to see . |
| 17 | Geoff Dowling , race secretary and one-time competitor ( but unfortunately never winner ) , told me that five and a half hours was reasonable but the first-class walkers could be expected about four and a half hours after the start . |
| 18 | But four and a half hours later , when the curlers were taken out , Susan was furious . |
| 19 | It is given over to writing between 2,000 and 2,500 words and it takes from three to four and a half hours to do . |
| 20 | Any other woman would have been spitting angry at being kept waiting for four and a half hours . |
| 21 | At the islands ' police headquarters they were detained for questioning for four and a half hours . |
| 22 | But nothing prepares you for four and a half hours climbing up crumbling ice . |
| 23 | The decision to grant permission did not come easily : the meeting lasted four and a half hours . |
| 24 | It was no ordinary train , but one made up of fifty-seven carriages and hauled by no less than six locomotives that ran the fifty miles from London to the ‘ Daphne ’ of the Metropolis , as Brighton has sometimes been called ( to quote from The London Illustrated News of 7 December 1884 ) ; the journey took four and a half hours . |
| 25 | It took four and a half hours to reach the summit and , believing it would be easier and quicker to regain the glacier by traversing the mountain , we continued our crab-like progression to the west . |
| 26 | The battery takes about four and a half hours to charge . |
| 27 | George Kirk , who works in Chemical Plants , battled round in four and a half hours while John Kenny from FDPED finished in three hours 18 minutes . |
| 28 | The only one that 's gone down to yours is Bill last week for those four and a half hours doing that interceptor . |
| 29 | Army bomb disposal experts arrived at Dorton late this afternoon to join the search of the trackside that had already been going on for four and a half hours . |
| 30 | Life is hectic , time is precious enough , without having to cope with unwanted visitors staying four and a half hours beyond their welcome . |