Example sentences of "eight and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a closer indication of the Authority 's priorities , we have therefore incorporated the length of each course and the number of participating teachers into an index of teacher-days : for example , a three-day course for eight teachers would involve twenty-four teacher-days ( 3 × 8 = 24 ) , while a half-day course for seventeen teachers would involve eight and a half teacher-days ( 3 × 8 = 24 ) . |
| 2 | It was a terrible job , standing there for eight and a half hours — because you did n't finish after eight hours . |
| 3 | That means that two-thirds of the population can be expected to sleep between six and a half and eight and a half hours a night , about 16 per cent regularly sleep over eight and a half hours , and another 16 per cent sleep under six and a half hours . |
| 4 | That means that two-thirds of the population can be expected to sleep between six and a half and eight and a half hours a night , about 16 per cent regularly sleep over eight and a half hours , and another 16 per cent sleep under six and a half hours . |
| 5 | Wool sorters at Exeter worked " from the time of being able to discern the wool until the evening " , which amounted to about eight and a half hours in winter and twelve in summer . |
| 6 | He 's hoping to ride two hundred miles in less than eight and a half hours , beating the time set by an eccentric Yorkshireman in 1831 . |
| 7 | I mean I was in eight and a half hours yesterday , eight hours a day before |
| 8 | An inscription says it was caught in the late eighteenth century and weighed sixty eight and a half pounds . |
| 9 | I 'm eight and a half years old and disgusted that my mother has to come with me to see A Hard Day 's Night when usually she just sees me to the edge of the estate and across the main road . |
| 10 | In eight and a half years , Labour under Neil Kinnock has worked miracles in divesting itself of policies which , as well as being fundamentally unpopular , had no obvious connection with our central beliefs . |
| 11 | I have been here eight and a half years now . |
| 12 | ‘ Throughout his eight and a half years as Labour leader he has shown the sort of courage in reforming the party which few politicians are capable of — and which , it must be said , John Major has never been called on to demonstrate in his effortless , virtually unchallenged glide through the great offices of state . ’ |
| 13 | In Indonesia , in October 1990 , post-graduate researcher Bonar Tigor Naipospos was sentenced to eight and a half years ' imprisonment because he ‘ attempted to undermine Indonesian state ideology ’ through participation in a university study group and distributing banned literature . |
| 14 | For example , one Lambodar Gorain has been held in Ranchi Jail since 18th June 1970 , for an offence under Section 25 of the Arms Act … with the result that he has been in prison for eight and a half years for an offence for which even if convicted , he could not have been awarded more than two years imprisonment … . |
| 15 | In that log book , which he showed me later , was the name , port and country of origin , of every ship that had passed through during the last eight and a half years , together with her age and condition , her destination , and of course the name of the captain and details of the cargo . |
| 16 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 17 | I do not expect much joy from the Minister tonight , but I give warning that , for the time I remain on these Benches , with the label on which I came here eight and a half years ago — as a Labour Member of Parliament , albeit a Member who has a label beneath his name on the TV as an expelled Labour Member — I shall bring before the House the necessary measures not just to talk about the death of the poll tax but to bury it once and for all . |
| 18 | A , Diana Rigg , James Bond movie , B , Kathleen Turner , Crimes of Passion , C , Kim Basinger , Basinger in Eight and a Half Weeks |
| 19 | Eight and a half weeks . |
| 20 | eight and a half weeks , |
| 21 | then I turned round and says no you have n't you 've got eight and a half weeks and he has n't he 's got twelve and a half . |
| 22 | Slim Annette , who weighs just eight and a half stones , said she did not fulfil everyone 's idea of a dame . |
| 23 | he 'll hit the ground in eight and a half seconds ! |
| 24 | I think we had something like eight and a half months without rain and there 's the feeling , quite often , that when we get a good summer in this country , people assume that the next summer will be just as good . |
| 25 | ‘ Considering I 'm eight and a half months pregnant and have n't heard from you for a couple of weeks . |
| 26 | WHEN Agnes Cauldhame arrived , eight and a half months pregnant , on her BSA 500 with the swept-back handlebars and eye of Sauron painted red on the petrol-tank , mv father was , perhaps understandably , not ferociously pleased to see her . |
| 27 | A MUM today hugged the new-born baby she feared might might have been injured in a hit and run car crash when she was eight and a half months pregnant . |