Example sentences of "one and [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes on to argue that the bourgeoisie have always used sections from within the ‘ dangerous classes ’ to control those who are overtly troublesome , perhaps following the maxim that ‘ it takes a thief to catch a thief ’ , when he argues : ‘ for one and a half centuries the bourgeoisie offered the following choices : you can go to prison or join the Army ; you can go to prison or go to the colonies ; you can go to prison or you can join the police ’ ( ibid. 23 ) . |
| 2 | On any day towards the end of the campaign , those who had been very interested in politics just before the campaign opened were one and a half times as likely to read a paper , and twice as likely to watch both BBC-TV and ITV news , as those with no interest in politics ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 3 | Their volume of production was one and a half times greater , and they were engaged chiefly in clothing , woodwork , skins , and agricultural repairs . |
| 4 | In the Gomel'sk workshops in Belorussia 450 railway staff collected one and a half million roubles in order to start up their own social insurance scheme for lack of an adequate state system . |
| 5 | At the same time he tried to make an economic case for expenditure in that area : ‘ Moreover , from the trade point of view , this area was probably worth between one and one and a half million employed men to this country . |
| 6 | His empire now stretched over one and a half million square miles of war-shattered Asia , with a population of some 128 million , many of them starving or , at least , severely undernourished . |
| 7 | Over one and a half million cubic metres of ash were swept out of what remained of the town . |
| 8 | After my marriage I used to go to Africa every one and a half years or so . |
| 9 | This fire officer , however , refused to allow the use of a sizeable proportion of the props , around which the entire show was structured ; and , although the Prince and Princess of Wales were arriving in one and a half hours ' time along with five Cabinet ministers , and the cast would have no time to rehearse without the props they relied upon , he was not to be budged . |
| 10 | One and a half million new accounts were opened in the first year . |
| 11 | Reduce sugar on cereal to one and a half teaspoons . |
| 12 | Goal for sugar Reduce sugar on cereal to one and a half spoonsful . |
| 13 | The official winning margin over Bering was one and a half lengths . |
| 14 | He then ran a gallant race when third to Linwell in the Mildmay Memorial Chase over three miles five furlongs at Sandown Park , conceding twenty-three pounds to the winner and finishing only one and a half lengths behind him . |
| 15 | Wayward Lad was one and a half lengths further away in third , Silver Buck a tired and remote fourth , and then Ashley House stayed on up the hill to pass Combs Ditch amid cheering never before heard for a horse running fifth ! |
| 16 | Alphabatim was third , one and a half lengths behind Baynoun , with Crazy fourth . |
| 17 | Some thought the Führer must have meant only the losses on the eastern Front , not including Stalingrad and those missing , and put the real figure at something like one and a half million . |
| 18 | I always leave a minimum of one and a half hours so that if I have a blow-out or breakdown or some other unforeseen emergency , I still have time to take care of it and catch the plane . |
| 19 | It lasted only one and a half hours but it satisfied body and soul . |
| 20 | It took us One and a half hours to clean up , but my early start gave us plenty of time . |
| 21 | An average of one and a half hours was spent with most families . |
| 22 | It was one and a half hours later before they reached him , caught up in all the plants , still shouting ‘ What have I done ? |
| 23 | Seventy Mothers ' Clubs distributed 2,000 questionnaires , which showed that the average worker in that part of São Paulo earned one and a half minimum salaries , which was not sufficient to cover costs of food , rent , mortgage of land payments , clothing , transport , medicine , school equipment , electricity and water for their families . |
| 24 | By 2.00 though the pains were every one and a half minutes and I was only 2cms dilated. was sitting eating sandwiches and I was starving hungry . |
| 25 | Seven and a quarter million voted , yes , and only one and a half million ‘ no ’ out of an electorate of roughly ten million . |
| 26 | Over one and a half million pensioners ( 15% ) , claimed the means tested top up Income Support in 1989–90 , and it is estimated that a further 0.9 million were eligible , but did not claim . |
| 27 | I think it 's more productive to be polite , ’ ) whose primary aim was to secure the future of the rainforest in an area stretching from the Heath Sanctuary on the Bolivian border up to and including Manu and the Tambopata Reserves : an area of one and a half million hectares , the size of Switzerland . |
| 28 | You have one and a half hours to get here . |
| 29 | for each year of employment between the ages of 41 and 65 one and a half week 's pay ; |
| 30 | The two areas did differ in the level of statutory service provision ; in Ipswich , home help input was available only two or three days a week for up to one and a half hours at a time , and a financial assessment and payment for home help had recently been introduced . |