Example sentences of "[num] and [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a young professional with Fulham some 30 and more years ago , he prospered hugely from advice offered in no uncertain terms by Joe Bacuzzi , a redoubtable professional of the old school and a firm believer in the unassailable principle that full-backs who can not defend should seek alternative employment . |
| 2 | The Payne Fund had sponsored nine investigations in the period between 1929 and 1933 and these observers were all too aware of the impact of the new sociological films and the dangers inherent in further progress in that direction . |
| 3 | Here sizes start at 12 and some clothes come in an unequivocally large 28 . |
| 4 | The minimum is 5,000 but few treasury bills are issued for less than 50,000 and most bills are much larger than this , up to a maximum normally of 1m . |
| 5 | In England there had been talk of reunion since the 1830s and some reunions had taken place . |
| 6 | To Rabbi Moishe , however , they were more than just delicacies , more even than symbols of the hoped-for good week to come — they were remembrances from the past , taking him back forty and more years to his distant home in Lithuania . |
| 7 | Rough guesses suggest they number round 300,000 and all predictions are that their numbers will increase . |
| 8 | Transfer of all courses into the new system will follow a planned three-year programme of implementation , with some students embarking on new-style courses in September 1990 and 1991 and all students embarking on new-style courses in September 1992 . |
| 9 | ‘ The course started in 1991 and those students who have completed two years will be awarded diplomas and those who have followed it for a year will get certificates . ’ |
| 10 | Having said that , some people have normal pulse rates up to 100 and some athletes and other normal people have pulse rates as low as 40 . |
| 11 | Many unwanted health conditions are less common in these than in large families of five or six and more children . |
| 12 | I measured the scar on your mum 's tum last night , it 's six and half inches without allowing for the |
| 13 | He certainly was in no hurry to marry poor Mary as she was already six and half months pregnant . |
| 14 | In relation to GP referrals only , more women ( 59 per cent ) than men ( 38 per cent ) were aged 16 to 44 and more women ( 63 per cent ) than men ( 43 per cent ) were in more stable council or owner occupied housing . |
| 15 | Stan made his Palace debut in the opening match of the 1928–29 season alongside another new boy , Tom Crilly , when the Palace beat Watford 3–0 and both men received rapturous reports . |
| 16 | In spite of being scheduled around the five o'clock timeslot , Doctor Who has always been a fully-fledged BBC Drama Series , made by the Drama Department in the same mould as Z Cars , Adam Adamant Lives , or , more recently , Blake 's 7 and All Creatures Great and Small . |
| 17 | Supplies of bright red paint ran out in 1943 and several cars appeared painted ‘ indian red ’ , this was a red oxide , that rather resembled the oxide used for trucks by many other undertakings . |
| 18 | Although there was another substantial missionary exodus in 1875 and some radicals settled semi-permanently in the villages , the euphoria evaporated . |
| 19 | Most girls born 70 and more years ago can not be traced because of change of name at marriage . |
| 20 | NOTHING in Neil Kinnock 's eight and half years as Labour leader so became the man as his dignified acceptance of his party 's calamitous general election defeat . |
| 21 | Well , we used to work from eight to half-past five and then from eight to half-past twelve , fifty-two and half hours , when I started first . |
| 22 | The total real value of exports from a selection of seven African countries rose three and half times from 1907 to 1928 , a further five times from 1928 to 1959 and a further four times from 1959 to 1982 . |
| 23 | and the republic in fact spend three and half times as much per capita as is spent by the United Kingdom in trying to restrain terrorism . |
| 24 | I drove back Friday afternoon , three and half hours , , after conference . |
| 25 | Three and half hours , but looking at the time log , and it 'll say I was on there for an hour actually speaking on the phone . |
| 26 | Cheltenham swimmer Kevin Morris who 's been trying to make history by swimming the channel backstroke has missed out again … he was three and half hours out from Dover when a throat infection sunk his dreams … |
| 27 | Or else if you 're driving up to Stranraer it 's a , it 's a good three and half hours ' drive plus your petrol . |
| 28 | Well we wanted to see that but erm , it 's three and half hours , three plus hours which erm we wanted |
| 29 | Erm , she 's worked with us , she 's worked with T N T three and half years . |
| 30 | Jenny , , she 's worked for Express for three and half months , and she previously worked for A N C , er , on their pallet service in Sheffield and South Yorkshire area . |