Example sentences of "over [adj] and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Attlee 's tally it should be recalled , was 148 standing Cabinet committees and 313 ad hoc , accumulated over six and a quarter years . |
| 3 | Shucksmith ( 1981 ) found waiting lists of over 1,200 and a housing stock of only 2,169 in the Lake District National Park , while Phillips and Williams ( 1982a ) found a waiting list of about 1,000 and a stock of some 4,500 dwellings in South Hams , Devon . |
| 4 | Royal Cedar , trained by John McConnochie , who has taken him over from the now retired Mercy Rimell , is another who is perfectly at home on fast ground , winning here over three and a half miles and at Newbury this season . |
| 5 | Royal Cedar , trained by John McConnochie , who has taken him over from the now retired Mercy Rimell , is another who is perfectly at home on fast ground , winning here over three and a half miles and at Newbury this season . |
| 6 | My first experience of service with HM forces was when I was just over three and a half . |
| 7 | Further items on display include a large bound pattern book from Lockett , Crossland & Co of Strangeways , which dates back to 1952 , containing over three and a half thousand samples of printed cotton fabric together with listings of the client firm for which it was produced . |
| 8 | Over three and a quarter hours , in almost medically precise measures , about 800 Windy kids and myself are , by turn , massaged , soothed , picked up and shaken , sexually aroused and punched repeatedly about the face . |
| 9 | It will also examine changes in the reporting of rape over three and a half decades . |
| 10 | Haunting the city from across the Nile are the three Great Pyramids and the Sphinx , these colossal constructions have guarded the desert border for over three and a half thousand years . |
| 11 | Over three and a half million more Germans fled from East Germany in the 1950s but were absorbed relatively easily , helped by the fact that generally many were young and skilled . |
| 12 | After this preamable , the question is , where did Benjamin Britten , the latest if not the last of the great composers of opera in a line stretching over three and a half centuries , look for inspiration to invent his masterpieces ? |
| 13 | At over three and a half hours , the film starts entertainingly enough in the ghetto , with a $40m budget plain to see . |
| 14 | He was over sixty and a relatively wealthy man , with a wife who was financially independent . |
| 15 | Jacqueline 's weight dropped from 10 stone to just over 4 and a half stone by the time of her death on December 23rd last year . |
| 16 | I 'm actually about just over ten and a half stone now . |
| 17 | At one stage the average time of the five daytime trains between Euston and Glasgow was over five and a half hours . |
| 18 | Full day trips include a drive along the magnificent High Alpine Grossglockner Road , where you will see the longest glacier in the eastern Alps the Pasterze , which is over five and a half miles long . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The diameter is just over twelve and a half thousand kilometres . ’ |
| 21 | Tarvaras was just over twelve and a half thousand kilometres in diameter and the Simonova was orbiting approximately thirty-six thousand kilometres above the surface . |
| 22 | The servants had taken pity on Alexandra , old Elsie especially who had nursed her as a baby and who now kept the linen cupboard , and helped in the kitchen ; and she had learned that her mother had married beneath her , far beneath , but that being over thirty and a cripple , she was , in a sense , lucky even to get James Abbott , if a man was what she wanted besides all she had already , castle and land and sheep . |
| 23 | Rusch de Farges , an ex-French gelding , won two of his six races last season both in soft ground and put up his best effort when beaten three lengths by Barnbrook Again at levels in the Arlington Chase Final over two and a half miles at Cheltenham last January . |
| 24 | Rusch de Farges , an ex-French gelding , won two of his six races last season both in soft ground and put up his best effort when beaten three lengths by Barnbrook Again at levels in the Arlington Chase Final over two and a half miles at Cheltenham last January . |
| 25 | The second is that from the Cherwell boathouse to the point where the tragedy occurred is a distance of over two and a half miles , including a strenuous portage , and took us nearly an hour . |
| 26 | Ladbrokes had quoted Jenny Pitman 's gelding , who has been off the course for over two and a half years , at 33-1 but have now scratched him from their list . |
| 27 | Morley Street beat his full brother Granville Again in the slowly-run Elite Hurdle last month , but has since been beaten by Muse over two and a half miles at Ascot . |
| 28 | He was n't at his best over two and a half at Ascot last time , but can redeem his reputation around his favoured left-handed track . |
| 29 | 1.20:DAVID Elsworth 's Muse heads the market due to a brave success from Morley Street over two and a half here last month . |
| 30 | Over two and a half years of research and development have gone into Aldercare Ltd 's Abacus Practice Management package , and chartered accountants have been involved at every step . |