Example sentences of "and a [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a steep L curve and a shallow I curve , the effect on aggregate demand will be much greater . |
| 2 | Redraw the three diagrams of Figure 18.2 with a steeper L curve and a shallower I curve . |
| 3 | We have feelers , metal strips , that are one and a half thou thick , we call it , you ca n't have them any thinner because they can make them in Sheffield at one thou thick but they suffer and bend by use . |
| 4 | So the standard feelers for an engineer goes from about one and a half thou up to fifteen thou , the rest you can measure by other things . |
| 5 | When we were about nine and ten and a half we had somebody living in because there were an awful lot of evening meetings that my father had to go to and usually mother went with him . |
| 6 | ‘ For a year and a half we lived here together . ’ |
| 7 | My parents kept a baby book about me until I was sixteen , and when I was three and a half they wrote : ‘ Takes a great interest in her clothes and chooses her own outfit each morning . |
| 8 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 9 | Er Robert said Charlotte who 's two and a half she 's always been pretty but erm Robert said right , mother 's babysitting on the nineteenth so organize I I 've been getting them into bed and then I 've gave them a little bit of milk or whatever they want and then they 've had toast with jam on . |
| 10 | At six and a half I loved making up my face , and at ten , the baby book recorded , I wanted to be a dress designer . |
| 11 | When I was eighteen and a half I was let out , but I think I got institutionalised being there three and a half years , and I wanted to stay there . |
| 12 | If I 'd been fourteen years old I should have commanded one shilling , but being only twelve and a half I got sixpence . |
| 13 | Because er as far as I 'd concerned I 'd never heard of air raids before hand you know , know I had n't and I was , as I say , I was only nine and a half I know but er , I did use to speak to a lot more people than most , er lads of that age did like , you know . |
| 14 | I mean if he charges two and a half I would n't be disappointed cos it 's been in his garage , he 's pushed everything along and he 's always so |
| 15 | We 're both thirty three and a half I think . |
| 16 | Australia play India next then they play England , that 'll be a match and a half I think |
| 17 | One , no , one and a half I 'll be awkward ! |
| 18 | Over coffee in the study Miss Danziger thanked the guests individually for their concern , apologised for interrupting their enjoyment of an excellent meal , and explained that so long as she came out of the spasm in less than a minute and a half it was not dangerous and left no ill-effects . |
| 19 | We had barely enough food for three months , let alone the four and a half it would take at fifteen miles a day . |
| 20 | In the month and a half it 's been delivering its high-end SparcCenter 2000s Sun has shipped 130 systems to paying customers : the firm has reportedly come up with a new 50MHz MPU module for its high-end SparcCenter 2000 that adds 2Mb external caches and improves database throughput from 20% to 40% . |
| 21 | Brian 's selling an organ electronic organ carrying case for a fiver , forty one by forty by four and a half it 'll take . |
| 22 | Ah it has n't got three and a half it 's the Amstrad three inch ? |
| 23 | Nineteen and a half you 're catching up , you 're catching up , right . |
| 24 | He must be about five and a half you know . |
| 25 | Gon na ask you to do an exercise now er it 'll it 'll take us to four o'clock before we start talking about assertiveness what I 'm gon na ask you to do is in one , two three , one two in two twos and a three I want you to put on paper one side one sheet of paper to sum up all the things we 've done about communication so far today and it 's going to other people on this course , and it 's going to be marked by one of them on this course . |
| 26 | Grosvenor House has traditionally been both an exhibition and a fair it is not just about the exchange of money with this American theme , I admit that we draw something of a blank . |
| 27 | Skinny , weigh about a pound and an half I would think that 's all . |