Example sentences of "and [art] [det] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After one and a half minutes the aircraft began to overshoot , correctly making an initial turn to the west . |
| 2 | Children spend some five and a half hours a day in a classroom for 40 weeks a year . |
| 3 | The school was a JMI school with over 400 pupils in ten classes , ten teachers plus a head teacher , a part-time secretary and a milk lady who came into school for one and a half hours a day to distribute milk . |
| 4 | Only three housewives had paid domestic help at the time of the interview : two for six hours a week and one for five and a half hours a fortnight . |
| 5 | That means that two-thirds of the population can be expected to sleep between six and a half and eight and a half hours a night , about 16 per cent regularly sleep over eight and a half hours , and another 16 per cent sleep under six and a half hours . |
| 6 | But when I started it was fifty-two and a half hours a week yes . |
| 7 | I worked for a month then I went to the dyers and cleaners and I came home to Ipswich in the , on the Easter time and I started work as a turnboy on the dredger at Ipswich at thirty five shillings a week for fi sixty six and a half hours a week , starting from Monday morning at six o'clock to six o'clock Monday night . |
| 8 | has got nothing to do with it but she 's working an extra two and a half hours a week and getting half an hour off , you know I mean you , in all |
| 9 | After three and a half hours the stragglers were still coming through . |
| 10 | Driving-time : one and a half hours the first time , two hours the second . |
| 11 | If people cared to read that record , they would know that for two and a half hours the Liberal Democrats proved beyond — |
| 12 | And at Watercombe on 5 May the River Yealm was found to have two and a half times the permitted level of aluminium . |
| 13 | Remember that accountants and business executives have two and a half times the average death rate from alcohol-related diseases ( doctors , incidentally , have three times the rate ) . |
| 14 | Boots ( retail division ) may consider giving employees moving from low-cost to high-cost areas a loan of up to a maximum of one and a half times the employee 's expected first year 's gross salary . |
| 15 | By 1975–76 it had risen to £10.3 billion — two and a half times the level inherited from the Conservatives just two years earlier . |
| 16 | In , the typical overhead of indexes and related files leads to a final size of about two and a half times the size of the corresponding serial file . |
| 17 | artwork one and a half times the size which it will be reproduced . |
| 18 | This tape will achieve a satisfactory curtain fullness with a minimum of one and a half times the track length using a thick fabric , but double fullness is preferable , particularly with lightweight fabrics . |
| 19 | It needs fabric fullness of two and a quarter to two and a half times the track length , depending on the thickness of the fabric . |
| 20 | A detachable lining which can be removed and washed separately need not use the same fullness as the outer curtain ; one and a half times the track length can be sufficient . |
| 21 | Chandrasekhar calculated that a cold star of more than about one and a half times the mass of the sun would not be able to support itself against its own gravity . |
| 22 | This year 's spending of £6.5 million is four and a half times the level of two years ago . |
| 23 | I announced an increase of grant in aid of 10 per cent. , roughly two and a half times the present rate of inflation . |
| 24 | It is going to be nine and a half times the footprint of Hambleton three and a half times the footprint of Brayton Bath it will tower in its mass beside them and it is totally unreasonable and wrong for anybody to describe it as merely of local concern . |
| 25 | It is going to be nine and a half times the footprint of Hambleton three and a half times the footprint of Brayton Bath it will tower in its mass beside them and it is totally unreasonable and wrong for anybody to describe it as merely of local concern . |
| 26 | Including these tremendously long towels which are er one and a half times the length of the table because they have to go over everybody 's lap as a napkin kind of communal napkin . |
| 27 | A test at Darlington police station revealed Crowther , an assistant manager at the Hurworth VG shop , was one and a half times the legal limit for driving . |
| 28 | The swollen testis was two and a half times the size of the normal one and very hard . |
| 29 | Bruce Mearns , 34 , of Arns Grove , Alloa , admitted speeding and driving his motorbike with more than one and a half times the legal limit of alcohol on 6 February . |
| 30 | Suicides by vets are more than three and a half times the average for all groups , says the latest issue of Population Trends from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys . |