Example sentences of "five and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one stage the average time of the five daytime trains between Euston and Glasgow was over five and a half hours . |
| 2 | P&O has two sailings a day from Felixstowe to Zeebrugge , crossing time five and a half hours . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was a last-minute dash that took him five and a half hours to reach Heathrow Airport . |
| 5 | ‘ The rescue services are still trying to put out fires after five and a half hours . |
| 6 | Children spend some five and a half hours a day in a classroom for 40 weeks a year . |
| 7 | The opener , who hit 12 fours in an innings almost five and a half hours long , was eighth out and one of off-spinner Neil Smith 's six victims . |
| 8 | The opener , who hit 12 fours in an innings almost five and a half hours long , was eighth out and one of off-spinner Neil Smith 's six victims . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The whole service has taken some five and a half hours in gale force winds and heavy seas . |
| 11 | Moreover , it is impossible to define what constitutes the ‘ appropriate ’ proportion of time which a 5-year-old , or a 7- or 11-year-old , should spend on task in a school day of some five and a half hours . |
| 12 | He 'd have had , say , five and a half hours of it . |
| 13 | That 's five and a half hours at a bit under two knots — say ten miles in round figures . |
| 14 | For the next six hours — or a little less , because at Battersea the flood lasts five and a half hours , and the ebb six and a half — they would be living not on land , but on water . |
| 15 | For five and a half hours , competitors in teams of four , battled it out finishing in time for lunch late in the afternoon . |
| 16 | The flight lasted five and a half hours . |
| 17 | ‘ We had never realised what hard work is actually involved in producing a programme of this kind and , with the added pressure of only five and a half hours in the city , we had our work cut out . |
| 18 | That 's five and a half hours and we 've got to be there at two |
| 19 | Because of the width of the cabin , nearly five and a half feet , it follows that there is plenty of room to accommodate all this without the panel becoming cluttered . |
| 20 | She seemed pulled out , elongated by it , so that her shoes , her new bronze slippers with rosettes on the toes that Aunt Emily had said she must keep hidden at all times if possible since legs and feet were highly indecent , seemed far further away than the five and a half feet she knew separated them from the crown of her head . |
| 21 | In addition , five and a half pages of notes to the accounts give valuable extra information . |
| 22 | Players score one point for a win , half for a draw and the first player to reach five and a half points wins the match . |
| 23 | He once went five and a half years unbeaten and he is still as modest as a mouse . |
| 24 | It has taken him just five and a half years to make his mark in the big time . |
| 25 | Even more puzzling is why , throughout the five and a half years Blake was in Wormwood Scrubs , no action was taken to move him to a more secure establishment . |
| 26 | Just over five and a half years later , I stood on the same spot and watched the Israelis drive down the same road to be greeted in precisely the same way by the same Christians on the same balconies . |
| 27 | That is the highest for five and a half years and is on course to reach three million around Christmas or early in the New Year . |
| 28 | When I arrived at Palace five and a half years ago it was n't only Ian 's gold tooth and charisma that sparkled on the training field . |
| 29 | Ellie knew this well , although she was barely five and a half years old , because she and Patsy had talked endlessly about the problem as they sat up in their cot while their father and the ‘ broth ’ played cards below them in the living room . |
| 30 | Er yes current position er at the moment I 'm the licence training manager for brewery and I 've held that position for five and a half years . |