Example sentences of "[be] [verb] two [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're giving two and a half thousand doctors computers on their desk , where they can tap in to the computer anything which happens to the patient which they suspect might be related to the medicine and also put in to the computer , of course , the medicines which the patient is taking , so that these records , covering about five million patients altogether , will be all centrally brought together in order to give very early warning of any harm which medicines are doing , so that 's a very important development . |
| 2 | Such comments come a bit rich from the Opposition , when they have opposed each and every training initiative that we have introduced during the past 12 years and when we are spending two and a half times as much in real terms as the Labour Government did . |
| 3 | We are spending two and a half times as much , after taking account of inflation , as was spent by the last Labour Government on training . |
| 4 | I remind them that we are spending two and a half times as much on training and enterprise as they did . |
| 5 | They 're part of a four hundred-strong team whose task will be to keep two and a half thousand soldiers supplied with everything from food to clean clothing . |
| 6 | And very , yeah , I mean th that 's , that 's all that this exploration of needs is , is just saying you retired yesterday and you were earning twelve thousand a year , you 're now gon na be earning two and a half thousand pounds a year . |
| 7 | He showed the notarised notebooks of April 1986 demonstrating the range of materials , including not just palladium but several other metals , that was being used two and a half years before they learned of the work by Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 8 | ‘ The flats were flooded two and a half years ago and we were promised that it would never happen again . ’ |
| 9 | He came first equal in the foot-race This incident raises for the first time a question which is still being debated two and a half thousand years later : were the Macedonians Greeks ? the orators and propagandists of the fifth and fourth centuries do not help for they contradict each other . |
| 10 | He was given two and a half years custody . |
| 11 | The first formal study of the persuasive effect of language was written two and a half thousand years ago . |
| 12 | After nearly an hour and a half at sea in gale force winds Falmouth lifeboat , under the command of Second Coxswain Alan Barnes , came up on the yacht , a 40ft steel ketch , which was drifting two and a half miles south west of The Lizard Light . |
| 13 | The difference between the last elected candidate , Annon , ( DUP ) with 5,800 votes and the runner up , Donnelly ( SDLP ) with 5,124 votes , was 676 , which was covered two and a half times by 1,698 non-transferable votes most of which came from NILP and Alliance . |
| 14 | Destroyer USS Lansdowne was ordered two and a half hours later to fire four torpedoes into the side of the stricken carrier . |