Example sentences of "one and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 So I need one and a half boxes
2 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 ) .
3 Their volume of production was one and a half times greater , and they were engaged chiefly in clothing , woodwork , skins , and agricultural repairs .
4 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 .
5 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 ) .
6 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 .
7 The tax-free lump sum , if you choose to take it , can not be more than one and a half times salary .
8 Prior to the 1987 Budget , the only restriction that applied was that the maximum was set at one and a half times salary .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 artwork one and a half times the size which it will be reproduced .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 ) .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Should we not also still go for the , if we can , the one and a half times they work Saturdays ?
27 Do you know how much it was when we got our first house , just before we were married , it was n't two and a half times your salary , it was one and a half times our salary
28 One and a half aeons is about the time that elapsed between the origin of the Earth and the first bacteria-like fossils .
29 And for a penny you could have a thick slice of bread , about one and a half inches , loaded with dripping , so that was your meal at lunchtime , before you nipped back to do other jobs .
30 but he still , the curtain was supposed to be something like sixty one and a half inches one was about a sixty one and the other was about a sixty three one end , you know ?
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