Example sentences of "and a [det] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 The Scottish Television script has been written by a former Daily Mirror editor , Mike Molloy , and a former People managing editor , Revel Barker .
2 General Yakov Jilinski , then in overall command of the Northwest Front Group , on 17 August directed the First Army , under General Pavel Rennenkampf , comprising six and a half infantry divisions and five cavalry divisions , north toward the fortified area around Königsberg .
3 The contribution erm made by each of these products after we 've used an average sales price erm is seven and a half pence roughly for the smallest size , erm about eighteen pence average for the one litre size and eleven twelve percent twelve pence sorry for the large size .
4 Gone down four four and a half pence a gallon .
5 Do you know the share he bought for ten p each last week went down to three and a half pence each .
6 Esso and Shell are putting four and a half pence on a gallon of petrol from Monday .
7 Indeed , they had reckoned German strength in the area to be at most one corps although British Intelligence had estimated it at three and a half corps and even this , in the event , proved an underestimate .
8 I never caught one in those days of the sixties and seventies myself , though pound to nearly a pound and a half fish graced my net often enough .
9 buying one extra drink and erm getting a you know cheaper than saving theirselves two and a half quid then .
10 Six and a half quid a throw .
11 Food imported for a million and a half people .
12 But while the battle goes on , the aid does not get through , and in Central Bosnia , a million and a half people depend upon it .
13 Well it 's equivalent to an another two and a half people .
14 erm it employs a million and a half people in full time jobs , or full time equivalents .
15 And so if we look at what was happening to income at that time , we find that the disposable income , meaning the amount of money we have to spend on other things after we 've bought essentials , that figure rose by only one and a half percent throughout this period .
16 Erm in year one growth is expected to be within a targeted range up to two and a half percent .
17 The advertising 's actually larger than other products are currently spent on their advertising but w we feel that with the launch of a new product and trying to catch eight and a half percent of the mar market over erm three years that we do need to spend heavily in the department so like I say that 's forty percent .
18 And the market the market size really for in year one is two and a half percent which is fourteen and a half million litres of water .
19 Year three eight and a half percent of the market which is forty nine point three million litres of w water .
20 Our advertising budget two and a half percent of the market the first year .
21 And the third year eight perc eight and a half percent of the market we should in fact of two million two er thirty hundred and thirty four erm thousand pounds .
22 This is what happens with tax exempt sources and by looking at a TESSA and assuming you pay the maximum each year which are those figures and assuming that the interest rate stays at seven and a half percent , it wo n't but it 's seven and a half percent at the moment , then this is what happens , at the end of the first year you 've put in your three thousand your interest at seven and a half percent is two twenty five and you would otherwise pay tax at fifty six at twenty five percent or twenty or forty which would be those figures , but you do n't .
23 This is what happens with tax exempt sources and by looking at a TESSA and assuming you pay the maximum each year which are those figures and assuming that the interest rate stays at seven and a half percent , it wo n't but it 's seven and a half percent at the moment , then this is what happens , at the end of the first year you 've put in your three thousand your interest at seven and a half percent is two twenty five and you would otherwise pay tax at fifty six at twenty five percent or twenty or forty which would be those figures , but you do n't .
24 This is what happens with tax exempt sources and by looking at a TESSA and assuming you pay the maximum each year which are those figures and assuming that the interest rate stays at seven and a half percent , it wo n't but it 's seven and a half percent at the moment , then this is what happens , at the end of the first year you 've put in your three thousand your interest at seven and a half percent is two twenty five and you would otherwise pay tax at fifty six at twenty five percent or twenty or forty which would be those figures , but you do n't .
25 So that at the end of the five years , assuming you 've paid the maximum stake at seven and a half percent , you would , otherwise you would receive the nine thousand back of course , and at that rate you would receive two six seven one and that will include , if you 're a twenty five percent payer , six hundred and sixty seven that you would have otherwise lost in , that would have gone out in tax .
26 Er so er let's say that the ten percent rate applies , er mind you ten percent is a long way from where we are now , but it makes the figures easy to look at , so er let's say that he 's getting ten percent gross on his return on a building society , he 'd actually get seven and a half percent net , er so on his ten thousand he 's going to earn seven fifty .
27 Erm the problem is that people who were in this account two years ago were earning thirteen and a half percent , well say eighteen months ago .
28 you 've got erm three , three and a half percent say per annum , er plus erm a superbonus which is perhaps five percent of additional bonuses , so it looks better but it is n't really .
29 So even at ten and a half percent rejection , if you look at the latest figures , it costs you thirty pounds a month for an Eagle Star low-cost super super-duper endowment , but at the end you 're only going to replace your money , if you 've got erm the ten and a half growth rate , ten and a half percent , which is unlikely i in current circumstances .
30 So even at ten and a half percent rejection , if you look at the latest figures , it costs you thirty pounds a month for an Eagle Star low-cost super super-duper endowment , but at the end you 're only going to replace your money , if you 've got erm the ten and a half growth rate , ten and a half percent , which is unlikely i in current circumstances .
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