Example sentences of "one and a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all four of them discovered the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his brand of Transcendental Meditation — and took it seriously enough to fly to India and study at his feet in Rishikesh ( John and George stuck it out for two months , Paul for one and a homesick Ringo for only ten days ) . |
| 2 | I was watching the ice hockey on here last night , last night , the and Czechoslovakia one and a Canadian guy scored a goal and the announcer said they 'll be celebrating that in his home in Canada if they 're watching , listen I bet they are ! |
| 3 | However , in March 1979 , the Callaghan Labour Government lost a vote of confidence by a majority of one and a general election followed . |
| 4 | The audience rose as one and a shocked intake of breath hung in silence for a second , before they broke into hysterical laughter . |
| 5 | So I need one and a half boxes |
| 6 | On any day towards the end of the campaign , those who had been very interested in politics just before the campaign opened were one and a half times as likely to read a paper , and twice as likely to watch both BBC-TV and ITV news , as those with no interest in politics ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 7 | Their volume of production was one and a half times greater , and they were engaged chiefly in clothing , woodwork , skins , and agricultural repairs . |
| 8 | It was calculated from a breath test taken then that he was nearly one and a half times over the limit for driving at the time of the accident . |
| 9 | It can be seen that the trie was in fact faster to search than the reduced memory tree in all three cases , however it uses more memory ( approximately one and a half times as much as the reduced memory tree ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The tax-free lump sum , if you choose to take it , can not be more than one and a half times salary . |
| 12 | Prior to the 1987 Budget , the only restriction that applied was that the maximum was set at one and a half times salary . |
| 13 | In addition , as users pay one and a half times more per MIPS on an upgrade than on a new machine , their investment is not protected . |
| 14 | Leading brake manufacturers AP Lockheed calculate riders hit more than 1.5g under braking , which means weight of rider and machine is increased one and a half times . |
| 15 | We attempted to investigate , briefly , some aspect of ‘ way of life ’ and found Blacks and Whites had , on average , gone out just under three evenings in the previous week and Asians only one and a half times . |
| 16 | artwork one and a half times the size which it will be reproduced . |
| 17 | Public spending in the USA is higher than in the UK ; the US spends nearly one and a half times that amount in addition on private medical benefits , yet health outcomes in the two countries are broadly comparable . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 20 | The ratio of Mercury 's orbital and axial sidereal periods means that , as illustrated in Figure 7.2 , for every orbit of the Sun Mercury rotates one and a half times around its axis . |
| 21 | In 1954 , mortality was highest among the infants born to the oldest mothers — 45 years old or older ( 122.8 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in the same maternal age group ) : the rate was almost one and a half times higher than the mortality in the second highest risk group ( 85.9 ) on the other end of the reproductive period ( i.e. infants born to women under 17 years of age ) . |
| 22 | In the case of well-motivated students with a high aptitude , the learning rate may be increased by one and a half times or even more , according to Valette and Disick . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what would be the weekly cost to someone on one and a half times male average earnings of abolition of the national insurance upper earnings limit . |
| 25 | Someone earning £490 a week , which is about one and a half times average male earnings , would pay an extra £9 per week in national insurance contributions if the upper earnings limit was abolished . |
| 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 | The coroner was told that blood alcohol tests after the accident showed Richard had been one and a half times over the legal drink drive limit . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 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 | Should we not also still go for the , if we can , the one and a half times they work Saturdays ? |