Example sentences of "of [adj] [num] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus PPB was adopted on a totally unrealistic time-scale of some five and a half months from the date of the original instructions . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Wages inspectors cover nearly half a million firms , mostly small and non-unionised , with a workforce of some two and a half million . |
| 4 | My Lord the er case moves on there over the page now to the twenty fourth of September and on that day Mr was notified erm by his bank on the telephone that head office had approved the finance proposal in principal and as a result of that Mr then telephone Peter , the defendant , told him that the financing for this deal had been approved in principal and Mr asked Mr to provide a bankers draft of some seven and a half thousand pounds in order to enable exchange to take place as a matter of urgency . |
| 5 | Well , and I put an order in to buying erm two more of these five and a quarter inch . |
| 6 | There was a horizontal movement of 4.25 m and a vertical movement of 3.35 m . |
| 7 | And in general terms they 're something of the order of twenty five and a half thousand swellings committed to development in the county , together with three and a half thousand erm in in in draft local plans . |
| 8 | Which does indicate that something of the order of twenty five and a half thousand dwellings already committed through completions , outstanding planning permissions and local plan alteration in adopted local plans . |
| 9 | And he h He sold them at a profit of thirty three and a third percent which is a third . |