Example sentences of "about two and " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I had been employed at Jersey House for about two and a half years when I was approached to see if I might like to do a little cleaning work to earn some overtime . |
| 2 | The tax for a property in the highest band will be about two and a half times that for one in the lowest band . |
| 3 | In August , 1920 , the average cost of a local authority house was £930 , about two and a half times as much as before the war . |
| 4 | The principal floor is raised about two and a half feet . |
| 5 | It was about two and a half years before he wrote anything like it again . |
| 6 | Oxygen itself has been present in significant amounts in the atmosphere for only about two and a half billion years — just over half the total life of our planet ; and there had already been a billion years of evolution before that . |
| 7 | On the way back we were about two and a half miles from Fordingbridge when disaster struck . |
| 8 | It is the chief active ingredient in vinegar but the world 's consumption of about two and a half million tonnes per year is used for more than sprinkling on fish and chips . |
| 9 | The two tanks hold 400,000 gallons of water , which was sufficient in 1916 to last South Holderness for two days but would now last only about two and a half hours . |
| 10 | The village of Tickton in East Yorkshire is situated on the Beverley to Bridlington road about two and a half miles north-east of Beverley and separated from it by the river Hull . |
| 11 | The relative risk of an overweight baby becoming an overweight 5-year-old is about two and a half times more than for a normal weight baby . |
| 12 | Most conscientious objectors are given four-year sentences which they reduce to about two and a half years by working . |
| 13 | When they just try to entertain , to be stompy dynamic pop punks with a snigger and a scream — and that amounts to about two and a half tracks tonight — they are briefly , brashly terrific . |
| 14 | By the end of July an advance of about two and a half miles had been made on a front which at this depth did not exceed two miles . ’ |
| 15 | Follow the road from Florence , and just about two and a half miles before you reach the town of Greve , high on ups , stands a crenellated renaissance castle . |
| 16 | Tavarnelle is about two and a half miles in the opposite direction . |
| 17 | It was converted from a nobleman 's residence situated about two and a half miles north-east of San Gimignano on the way to Certaldo , is surrounded by its own gardens and is tastefully appointed in every aspect . |
| 18 | The boot comprised a squared box covered in thick leather bound at each end with iron , measuring about two and a half feet in length and four inches square at the ends . |
| 19 | Er , it 's seven fifty per head coach from Harlow at nine in the morning get back again about five , we intend to beat the rush hour and it 's a conducted tour of Docklands and the city airport with a guide , and also viewing of the visitor 's centre at Docklands , and then about two and a half hours , probably three , to roam around the area yourself . |
| 20 | A part of his inheritance has gone in a number of ventures ; his books make about two and six a year . |
| 21 | My Lords , for about two and a half years the defendant , Mr. Gary Thomas , made his home with his brother Webster in a council house 29 , Juniper Court , Morris Road , London , E.15 which belonged to and was let by the respondent local authority the Waltham Forest London Borough Council ( ‘ the plaintiffs ’ ) to Webster . |
| 22 | The overall differential is about two and a half to one . |
| 23 | The 1981 Census was estimated to have been under-counted by about half a per cent ( around two hundred thousand people ) in England and Wales as a whole and by about two and a half per cent in Inner London ( about fifty five thousand people ) . |
| 24 | In , the typical overhead of indexes and related files leads to a final size of about two and a half times the size of the corresponding serial file . |
| 25 | That lasts me about two and half week . |
| 26 | Louise : It 's a village about two and a half miles out of town . |
| 27 | That 's about two and a quarter . |
| 28 | Apart from the bad weather the golfers and non-golfers in the party had to queue for about two and a half hours for the small car ferry to take them back to the mainland . |
| 29 | Well when I was down at the er council that May , I told them there and then that er I 'm prepared to er let one of the council men come to our house , about eight o'clock in the morning , and then stop till ten and then come back again about two and wait till they come home from school which they would n't have come home from school , but they go across the road and come back again , double back as if they 'd been to school |
| 30 | Willis sometimes took Tilda , in her character as an apprentice painter , to the Tate Gallery , about two and a half miles along the Embankment . |