Example sentences of "and a [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have returned this year after a two and a half year break ) to a 100% improvement within your magazine — correction my magazine . |
| 2 | In 1980 the Academic , College and Research Libraries ( ACRL ) Board of Directors in the USA approved funding for a two and a half year project to provide information concerning academic librarianship to organizations and individuals involved with higher education through the development of channels of communication with professional and higher education associations . |
| 3 | Jeanette 's tow and a half year old niece , Sula , was a pretty flowergirl in a satin dress made by the mother of the bride . |
| 4 | Freer : a Legacy of Art by Thomas Lawton and Linda Merrill ( £40 , $49.50 ) tells Freer 's story as a collector and celebrates the reopening of the Smithsonian 's Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC on Sunday , 9 May , its seventieth anniversary , after a four and a half year renovation project . |
| 5 | At the moment it is a nine and a half year loan and then the pictures leave . |
| 6 | He also admitted fingering the private parts of a two and a half year old child for whom he was baby sitting . |
| 7 | And then certainly in two and a half year 's time , a hundred and seventy million pounds is being spent by Water er putting in a new sewage station . |
| 8 | They were moving with me all the time and er , the eldest child was four year 's old when he came to this country and er , two and a half year 's old the girl , younger to him . |
| 9 | The association between Cryptosporidium , chronic diarrhoea and a proximal small intestinal mucosal enteropathy was reviewed over a six and a half year period . |
| 10 | He gets so excited any two and a half year old would would n't they . |
| 11 | Two and a half year . |
| 12 | And then I was back at Holland for another four and a half year . |
| 13 | And then I was four and a half year in Sanday . |
| 14 | TWO AND A HALF years ago I was diagnosed as being HIV positive . |
| 15 | Four and a half years , he wrote . |
| 16 | I was there for about three and a half years . |
| 17 | I had been employed at Jersey House for about two and a half years when I was approached to see if I might like to do a little cleaning work to earn some overtime . |
| 18 | Capriati spent two and a half years under the tutelage . |
| 19 | According to Commission sources , the US negotiators have recently offered the EC 7 per cent of the market in a new agreement to run for two and a half years . |
| 20 | He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust . |
| 21 | Its own scheme was implemented three and a half years ago , and now 85 per cent of its 250,000 borrowers pay this way . |
| 22 | It was there in 1903 that quarrymen went on strike for three and a half years , surviving on subsistence farming . |
| 23 | Today no-one — with the possible exception of members of his family - seriously believes that Wallenberg is still alive somewhere in what is left of the Gulag Archipelago , four and a half years into perestroika . |
| 24 | LIQUIDATORS of the Isle of Man Savings and Investment Bank , which crashed seven and a half years ago with debts of £42.4m , said last night they would be paying more than 10p in the pound to the 4,000 mainly small investors who lost money . |
| 25 | He once went five and a half years unbeaten and he is still as modest as a mouse . |
| 26 | Experience in the past two and a half years has shown both the general effectiveness of such schemes and the need for a much wider extension of them . |
| 27 | As Nick Gatfield , director of A&R for EMI Records ( UK ) says , ‘ In three and a half years at EMI I have signed only one artist from an unsolicited demo tape . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm eight and a half years old and disgusted that my mother has to come with me to see A Hard Day 's Night when usually she just sees me to the edge of the estate and across the main road . |
| 29 | He was requested by Prime Minister James Callaghan to head a commission that looked into the future of the engineering profession in Britain , which kept him occupied for two and a half years . |
| 30 | It has taken him just five and a half years to make his mark in the big time . |