Example sentences of "and [prep] [num] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Indeed , stretches of the system had considerable success , and between 1814 and the 1840's it could be said that the Grand Union justified itself . |
2 | The man was relaxed and rested and Holly felt the tiredness brush through his mind and for nine and a half hours he had worked in the Factory at the lathe that fashioned chairs ' legs . |
3 | And then I decided very reluctantly to have an excavator and for three and a half days it worked down there and erm created a sort of Black Hole Calcutta and put all the stuff it had taken out , it spewed around so that it , there was just mud and no water . |
4 | And after two and a half hours , the doctor made the decision for me and gave me the epidural . |
5 | And with 1992 and the dismantling of trade barriers within Europe fast approaching , the spring East Midlands Tourism Business Survey also reveals a disturbing lack of interest in language training . |
6 | And with seven and a half minutes of injury time Milton hung on to their slender lead ; final score here at Bishops Cleve was Bishops Cleve nil , Milton United one . |
7 | So any dwellings over and above sixteen and a half thousand , would only be taken by people moving into the county and not by locals . |
8 | For a total of 3 years-in 1924 , from 1929 to 1930 , and from 1976 until the Lib-Lab Pact of 1977-a minority government held office without even a tacit agreement with other parties . |
9 | Neither the Saracen vassals nor the Basque and Navarese vassals were trustworthy , and in 778 while the army was returning across the Pyrenees , Basque warriors attacked the wagon train , capturing considerable amounts of booty and killing three senior members of Charles ' government . |
10 | Of course all I needed was a two-minute sit-down and in two and a half minutes I was not only fully recovered and ready to carry on , I had adrenalin pumping out the top of my hat in anger that my man had left me to die . |
11 | Now that each party has formal election procedures through which to choose its Leader , the Queen in normal circumstances will not have to make a personal choice between rival candidates for Prime Minister , a choice which she had to make in 1957 and in 1963 before the Conservative Party adopted election rules . |
12 | Otherwise , by securing railway concessions in Persia , the Russians could reach the Gulf and at one and the same time create their longed-for warm-water port and turn the western flank of the British in India . |
13 | All told , life expectancy has increased by two years for women in Britain in the last decade , and by two and a half years for men . |
14 | Life expectancy has increased by two years for women in Britain in the last decade and by two and a half years for men . |