Example sentences of "five and [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's five and a half hours at a bit under two knots — say ten miles in round figures . |
| 2 | He 'd have had , say , five and a half hours of it . |
| 3 | The whole service has taken some five and a half hours in gale force winds and heavy seas . |
| 4 | ‘ We had never realised what hard work is actually involved in producing a programme of this kind and , with the added pressure of only five and a half hours in the city , we had our work cut out . |
| 5 | In addition , five and a half pages of notes to the accounts give valuable extra information . |
| 6 | Last December UK sales director Billy Adair after five and a half years with the company . |
| 7 | When we five and a half years of life of the coral from Isabella Island in the Galapagos the remarkable thing about this coral record is that it represents nearly three hundred and eighty years of continuous coral growth . |
| 8 | She also remembered five and a half years of girlish dreams and fading hopes . |
| 9 | Had she not already decided that five and a half years of girlhood dreams bore little resemblance to the harsh warrior beside her ? |
| 10 | After five and a half years of intense activity the burdens of leading the French people had worn de Gaulle down . |
| 11 | They were joined by John McCarthy , who spent his first days of freedom at the airbase after five and a half years as a hostage . |
| 12 | A ROYAL Navy technician who was extradited to New Zealand from Britain was jailed for five and a half years in Christchurch yesterday for snatching a woman off a beach and raping her . |
| 13 | And I mean it was a difficult start , and I was in fact a junior detective for five and a half years before any alteration was made in the staff , there was no promotions or leaving so that as junior detective for five and a half years , I got all jobs that nobody else wanted |
| 14 | According to the managers five and a half days in this area . |
| 15 | Thus PPB was adopted on a totally unrealistic time-scale of some five and a half months from the date of the original instructions . |
| 16 | Val with Matthew and William took the train to Auckland — a trip they recommended so much that I did it as well , 5 weeks later — and after staying overnight with the Hartleys they flew out on 23rd March — five and a half months after our arrival . |