Example sentences of "about three [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was there for about three and a half years . |
| 2 | However , he took evening classes in some subjects , and started part-time work about three and a half years after the accident . |
| 3 | Put in a fireproof dish eight carrots cut in round pieces , about half an inch thick , half a dozen small onions , parsley , salt and pepper and a rasher of bacon cut in small pieces , add a tablespoon of water , cover the dish and cook on a slow fire for about three and a half hours . |
| 4 | X 19 ins. , two inches thick , with a hole in the middle about three and a half inches in diameter . |
| 5 | A different expression of a roughly similar tendency can be seen in the fact that the total production of books in Russia during the years 1762–1800 was about three and a half times that in the entire period from the introduction of printing down to 1761 . |
| 6 | We would have about three and a half hours in Swansea , an excellent shopping centre . |
| 7 | By 1736 the population of the town of Sheffield stood at 10,121 , which was about three and a half times higher than it had been a couple of generations earlier in 1672 . |
| 8 | About three and a half foot from the ground . |
| 9 | There 's about three and a quarter million of those , as and when this slide was made for the self-employed . |
| 10 | Fifty per cent less on the mortgage means erm about three and a half thousand . |
| 11 | thirty six , he 's about three and a half |
| 12 | if you come back on the one before you 've only got about three and a half hours so you 've got four hours on the ferry , three and a half there and then four hours back again have n't you ? |
| 13 | It 's about three and a half years . |
| 14 | Depends what er this time of year about three and a half and then four in the winter . |
| 15 | But it 's gon na take us , I mean , what Gatwick took us about three and a half hours did n't it ? |
| 16 | Erm round about three and a quarter thousand . |