Example sentences of "one and a half [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | So I need one and a half boxes |
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 | It was calculated from a breath test taken then that he was nearly one and a half times over the limit for driving at the time of the accident . |
5 | It can be seen that the trie was in fact faster to search than the reduced memory tree in all three cases , however it uses more memory ( approximately one and a half times as much as the reduced memory tree ) . |
6 | Boots ( retail division ) may consider giving employees moving from low-cost to high-cost areas a loan of up to a maximum of one and a half times the employee 's expected first year 's gross salary . |
7 | The tax-free lump sum , if you choose to take it , can not be more than one and a half times salary . |
8 | Prior to the 1987 Budget , the only restriction that applied was that the maximum was set at one and a half times salary . |
9 | In addition , as users pay one and a half times more per MIPS on an upgrade than on a new machine , their investment is not protected . |
10 | Leading brake manufacturers AP Lockheed calculate riders hit more than 1.5g under braking , which means weight of rider and machine is increased one and a half times . |
11 | We attempted to investigate , briefly , some aspect of ‘ way of life ’ and found Blacks and Whites had , on average , gone out just under three evenings in the previous week and Asians only one and a half times . |
12 | artwork one and a half times the size which it will be reproduced . |
13 | Public spending in the USA is higher than in the UK ; the US spends nearly one and a half times that amount in addition on private medical benefits , yet health outcomes in the two countries are broadly comparable . |
14 | This tape will achieve a satisfactory curtain fullness with a minimum of one and a half times the track length using a thick fabric , but double fullness is preferable , particularly with lightweight fabrics . |
15 | A detachable lining which can be removed and washed separately need not use the same fullness as the outer curtain ; one and a half times the track length can be sufficient . |
16 | The ratio of Mercury 's orbital and axial sidereal periods means that , as illustrated in Figure 7.2 , for every orbit of the Sun Mercury rotates one and a half times around its axis . |
17 | In 1954 , mortality was highest among the infants born to the oldest mothers — 45 years old or older ( 122.8 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in the same maternal age group ) : the rate was almost one and a half times higher than the mortality in the second highest risk group ( 85.9 ) on the other end of the reproductive period ( i.e. infants born to women under 17 years of age ) . |
18 | In the case of well-motivated students with a high aptitude , the learning rate may be increased by one and a half times or even more , according to Valette and Disick . |
19 | Chandrasekhar calculated that a cold star of more than about one and a half times the mass of the sun would not be able to support itself against its own gravity . |
20 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what would be the weekly cost to someone on one and a half times male average earnings of abolition of the national insurance upper earnings limit . |
21 | Someone earning £490 a week , which is about one and a half times average male earnings , would pay an extra £9 per week in national insurance contributions if the upper earnings limit was abolished . |
22 | Including these tremendously long towels which are er one and a half times the length of the table because they have to go over everybody 's lap as a napkin kind of communal napkin . |
23 | The coroner was told that blood alcohol tests after the accident showed Richard had been one and a half times over the legal drink drive limit . |
24 | A test at Darlington police station revealed Crowther , an assistant manager at the Hurworth VG shop , was one and a half times the legal limit for driving . |
25 | Bruce Mearns , 34 , of Arns Grove , Alloa , admitted speeding and driving his motorbike with more than one and a half times the legal limit of alcohol on 6 February . |
26 | Should we not also still go for the , if we can , the one and a half times they work Saturdays ? |
27 | Do you know how much it was when we got our first house , just before we were married , it was n't two and a half times your salary , it was one and a half times our salary |
28 | One and a half aeons is about the time that elapsed between the origin of the Earth and the first bacteria-like fossils . |
29 | And for a penny you could have a thick slice of bread , about one and a half inches , loaded with dripping , so that was your meal at lunchtime , before you nipped back to do other jobs . |
30 | but he still , the curtain was supposed to be something like sixty one and a half inches one was about a sixty one and the other was about a sixty three one end , you know ? |