Example sentences of "be [v-ing] two and [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |