Example sentences of "three and [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This grew from three to three and a half million by 1981 and was created by a combination of net immigration , earlier and more frequent marriage , and the maintenance of relatively high levels of childbirth . |
| 2 | I was there for about three and a half years . |
| 3 | Racing and Ireland go together — it is said there are as many horses as people ( three and a half million ) — and racecourse crowds are extremely knowledgeable about the sport . |
| 4 | Its own scheme was implemented three and a half years ago , and now 85 per cent of its 250,000 borrowers pay this way . |
| 5 | In a long match like this it is really difficult to play your best for three and a half hours . ’ |
| 6 | EVEN WITH half a dozen arias omitted , the Opera North production of Mozart 's La Finta Giardiniera makes a long evening , three and a half hours including interval . |
| 7 | It was there in 1903 that quarrymen went on strike for three and a half years , surviving on subsistence farming . |
| 8 | By that date Moscow had provided a mere three and a half million roubles , and one million had come in from other gubernii . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | He points to the fact that the Atlantic can now be crossed in three and a half hours as indisputable evidence that the pace has hotted up , but in his view , the next generation will assimilate such changes . |
| 11 | Around the world , they cause the deaths of three and a half million children every year . |
| 12 | So by sharing a little of what we have , we can remover the threat of these terrible diseases which , currently , kill three and a half million children a year . |
| 13 | With your help we can achieve that goal in 1990 — and in doing so , we can save the lives of three and a half million children every year . |
| 14 | Flying time is three and a half hours and there is no time change . |
| 15 | Yet now , three and a half years after Debbie was discharged from hospital , her mother has written a letter to the authorities , bitterly criticising them for ‘ bad planning , no comprehension and dismissive attitudes ’ . |
| 16 | Just before Christmas , a man had been seized at gunpoint and made to drive a van loaded with three and a half thousand pounds of explosives into Annaghmartin ; the Christmas before , two soldiers had been shot dead at the Derry checkpoint , next door . |
| 17 | That was less than three and a half hours ago , but it might have been years . |
| 18 | There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters . |
| 19 | Moz was a four-year old stallion who for most of his life , the three and a half years following weaning , had been kept in a small yard measuring no more than 20 x 20ft ( 6 X 6m ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The trap with its missing section of beam had been three and a half feet across , and Harry , taking the envelope bait , had gone through its centre . |
| 22 | JOHN BERRY , 54 , who was released on parole last week after serving three and a half years of a six-year sentence for making explosive devices , is to have a new appeal hearing in his long-running legal battle to clear his name . |
| 23 | JOHN BERRY , 54 , who was released on parole last week after serving three and a half years of a six-year sentence for making explosive devices , is to have a new appeal hearing in his long-running legal battle to clear his name . |
| 24 | Transcendental Meditation now has three and a half million followers worldwide . |
| 25 | It was in New Zealand , where he stayed for three and a half years , that he first entered the world of Bohemia and found himself getting on best with artists . |
| 26 | This is unsettling , and makes me realise that for those three and a half hours I have been the still and passive object of her intuition as well as her technical skill . |
| 27 | The Apothecaries looked no further ; they approached Charles Cheyne , a Chelsea landowner of some substance , who agreed , in 1673 , to let the Society a three and a half acre plot at a rent of £5 per annum . |
| 28 | The Dunbars have shown that whereas harems taken over in combat only last an average of three and a half years , those established by way of two-male team formation last eight and a half . |
| 29 | By the time human beings first came into being , several million years ago , life had already been evolving for three and a half billion years . |
| 30 | I met some now very loyal friends who have seen me through these last three and a half years . |