Example sentences of "for [adj] [num] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I was back at Holland for another four and a half year . |
| 2 | He then hooked Andrew Caddick for another six and a perfectly timed shot off Richard Snell sailed over the square leg boundary and into a back garden . |
| 3 | For another two and a half years I survived the mosquitoes and grew to love the people and was just looking forward to my first home leave when a letter from the Superior General appointed me to Vocations Director in the South of England ! |
| 4 | While these careful measures succeeded in preserving Tokugawa rule for some two and a half centuries , they could never hope to prevent all social , economic and political change . |
| 5 | Dicky o' Tunstead is a celebrated skull who lived at Tunstead Farm in Derbyshire for some three and a half centuries . |
| 6 | When he returned , however , he was hit for three fours and a six in one over by the Trinidadian , who then crashed van Zyl over extra cover for another six . |
| 7 | The only one that 's gone down to yours is Bill last week for those four and a half hours doing that interceptor . |
| 8 | This is unsettling , and makes me realise that for those three and a half hours I have been the still and passive object of her intuition as well as her technical skill . |
| 9 | These were supported by a ‘ levy ’ of foot soldiers ; repeatedly in the fourteenth century , Sussex was faced with royal demands for five hundred or a thousand troops . |
| 10 | Mm , well Ann and she got it for thirty two and a half ! |
| 11 | Well , erm , I I give a very small example of that , er , we 're very privileged er , in having four distinguished leaders of the voluntary sector , who meet with us every four months , and they , er , we only meet for two two and a half hours , and we talk through what we think we 're trying to do , as a company . |
| 12 | I arranged with Dick that w Bill would be with him for two two and a half hours . |