Example sentences of "one and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wexford had seen that glass and teak lamp in a Kingsmarkham shop and noted it had been priced at twenty-five pounds , one and a quarter times Hatton 's weekly wage . |
| 2 | The sheet metal workers , who cut sheet metal to the design of the drawings of the part of a car , earned 2s 6d ( 12p ) per hour , and did a lot of overtime at one and a quarter time , which means that many of them would have been earning £6 or £7 per week , and be well over the arbitrary divide of £4 suggested as a line for the divide between the working class and the middle class . |
| 3 | It read fifty one and a quarter pounds . |
| 4 | ‘ No , it is one and a quarter , sir , ’ and he was right . ’ |
| 5 | Since the 1950s , £16 billion has been spent on nuclear research and development , which is equivalent to a one and a quarter pence tax on each unit of nuclear electricity produced over the years . |
| 6 | Although the church is no longer standing the old graveyard is still there with tombstones which are still readable , on a site one and a quarter miles from the present church . |
| 7 | After about one and a quarter miles you detour east to Dresternan Castle , a small Georgian country house . |
| 8 | The motor age had arrived and by the end of the 1950s one and a quarter million new vehicles were being registered every year . |
| 9 | As a rough guide , the distance in nautical miles over which signals can be received can be estimated by taking the square root of your altitude and multiplying by one and a quarter . |
| 10 | As a rough guide the reception distance can be found by multiplying the square root of your altitude by one and a quarter . |
| 11 | One and a quarter fullness will enable the curtain to lie reasonably flat across the window . |
| 12 | Using one and a quarter fullness , i.e. , one width of 120cm ( 48in ) wide fabric with finished curtain width of 112cm ( 44in ) . |
| 13 | It is interesting to not that the values achieved in 1989 were broadly at about three times the turnover seen in these outlets , whereas today , a multiplier of approximately one , to one and a quarter times turnover , is far more appropriate . |
| 14 | They set something like 50,000 km of net a night , enough to go around the equator one and a quarter times . |
| 15 | At about 10.35 on Saturday morning 7 December , the 07.00 hrs sprinter diesel train from Portsmouth to Cardiff collided with the rear of the08.30 hrs InterCity 125 train from London , Paddington to Cardiff inside the Severn tunnel , about one and a quarter miles from the Newport end . |
| 16 | Telethon '92 raised one and a quarter million pounds for charities across the Central region — recipients like Play for Children in Nottingham will be sorry to see it go . |
| 17 | A transfer tribunal has valued Swindon Town 's former captain Colin Calderwood at one and a quarter million pounds . |
| 18 | Once one thinks in terms of the man on the one hand , and his writings on the other , one is surprise , even , I think , puzzled and disconcerted , by the disparity , the apparent disparity at any rate , between , on the one hand , the frequenter of the Faubourg Saint Germain salons , and , on the other , the author of À la Recherche , between the rather eccentric hypochondriac and the observer in the novel of human weakness , erm between perhaps the often precious and whimsical Figaro columnist and the architect of an astonishingly complex and lengthy novel , amounting to something like one and a quarter million words . |
| 19 | so we get another hour done , that 's another hour of taping , so that 's er one and a quarter tapes , sure you wo n't take it home ? |
| 20 | The standard charge is set by the local council , and can be zero , one half , equal to , one and a half or twice the cost of the personal community charge in the area . |
| 21 | Between your two easy days , find a hill that takes from one and a half to two minutes to run . |
| 22 | So on top of the five shows and rehearsals every day at the Rex , they did another four at the Olympia and did not even receive double salaries but only one and a half . |
| 23 | Now we have one and a half , ’ says John Cox , the BP manager charged with advising Hungarian industry . |
| 24 | In this backward , square or forward short leg position he held most of his 375 catches , a startlingly high average of almost one and a half catches per match . |
| 25 | A good gooseberry will weigh between one and a half and two ounces and is the size of a golf ball . |
| 26 | Each of us lived in a concrete box , nine feet long and six feet wide , with walls one and a half foot thick , and 14 air holes . |
| 27 | The price is one and a half milliardi . ’ |
| 28 | The price is one and a half milliardi . |
| 29 | If you are using Fisherman 's rib or tuck stitch , the fabric will stretch widthways when removed from the machine , so you will need to increase the stitch by one and a half or two numbers to prevent a tight cast off . |
| 30 | The Tory performance was in fact one and a half percentage points better in The Economist 's regular sample of provincial English districts than it was three years ago , at the height of the rebellion against Mrs Thatcher 's poll tax ( see table 1 ) . |