Example sentences of "about [num] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | basic of about eight and a half of something |
| 2 | Even though I was about eight and a half . |
| 3 | he should be about eight and a half , he 's rescued . |
| 4 | room 's only about eleven and a half , because you get the back room , the front room and then it goes in a bit |
| 5 | and I 've got three phone numbers to ring but I thought I 'd wait till the end of the week until I 'm about eleven and a half |
| 6 | There 's about three and a quarter million of those , as and when this slide was made for the self-employed . |
| 7 | Erm round about three and a quarter thousand . |
| 8 | About three and a half foot from the ground . |
| 9 | thirty six , he 's about three and a half |
| 10 | Depends what er this time of year about three and a half and then four in the winter . |
| 11 | That was when I was about fourteen and a half . |
| 12 | I was about sixteen and a half then or going for seventeen aye . |
| 13 | On the mantelshelf behind him there was a photograph of a pretty , smiling , dark-haired woman , a boy of about ten and a girl a few years younger . |
| 14 | Fama and Babiak tested this model and found that , on average , firms in the USA have a target ratio of about 0.5 and an adjustment rate of 0.33 . |
| 15 | After his sexual initiation by a barmaid in an outback pub , while his father was drinking downstairs ( at an age which would seem to be about twelve and a half — but Greg felt the incident had been brought forward significantly , from a feeling that the narrative pace of the opening pages was already flagging ) , Gerald Seymour-Strachey went on to a variety of girls ( occasionally called ‘ girlies ’ ) and later women . |
| 16 | This probably explains why menarche the age of which er menstruation begins menarche er why the age of menarche has dropped progressively in the last century from about fifteen and a half to about twelve and a half er today . |
| 17 | The theorist is quite in line really with the reflector the average there is about twelve and a half . |
| 18 | I was only about five and a half when she too died after a long illness and one of my earliest recollections is riding in the well , at the foot of her bath-chair when she went out for constitutionals . |
| 19 | I mean I 've only got some figures here up to the twenty fourth of February , and in that particular week we sold about thirteen and a half thousand U K holidays , as against the week last year of about five and a half , so we 've obviously seen a fairly major growth in U K holidays , but , as I said , we spent about a hundred thousand pounds on promotion , so we 're very pleased with the uptake of business coming in . |
| 20 | We saw a ‘ pairing-up ’ ceremony , between two young people : a Japanese girl of about 15 and a boy who was slightly younger . |
| 21 | About four and a half |
| 22 | I reckon about four and a half . |
| 23 | The overall differential is about two and a half to one . |
| 24 | The child , a boy of about two and a half , was unconscious and bleeding from a gash on his head . |
| 25 | Mm it was about two and a half , three thousand . |
| 26 | she was only about two and a half there |
| 27 | I think Jeanette said Tom had that problem cos he did n't speak until he was about two and a half and they thought he was you know a bit daft |
| 28 | took about two and a half , two hours did n't it ? |
| 29 | there shanks usually weigh about two and a half pound |
| 30 | That 's about two and a quarter . |