Example sentences of "to [num] and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er Mr also commented om the er consideration of the er emerging alteration and increase in Selby District 's allocation from ten thousand to eleven and a half thousand dwellings erm and I would like to assure him now that we have completed out local plan studies , we are in the process of fine tuning them and and I 'm quite confident that we will be able to accommodate the eleven and a half thousand dwellings . |
| 2 | Then the balloons were off rising above Herefordshire to eleven and a half thousand feet instead of the planned ten and a half thousand . |
| 3 | In Indonesia , in October 1990 , post-graduate researcher Bonar Tigor Naipospos was sentenced to eight and a half years ' imprisonment because he ‘ attempted to undermine Indonesian state ideology ’ through participation in a university study group and distributing banned literature . |
| 4 | Delta Libræ is an Algol-type eclipsing binary , with a range of from 4.8 to 6.1 and a period of 2.33 days . |
| 5 | Finally there is the Cepheid variable T Vulpeculæ , with a range of from 5.4 to 6.1 and a period of 4.4 days . |
| 6 | After lunch ( not included ) visit the Medieval town of Gouda , famous for its cheese but with a lot more to discover such as St. Jans Kerk which contains over half of Holland 's antique stained-glass windows , the Gothic City Hall dating back to 1430 and a collection of fascinating museums . |
| 7 | I have worked my beat as near as possible to 2 and a half miles an hour , and I do n't think there is much to complain about . |
| 8 | Before getting too excited , you must remember that this is a weight-loss diet and consequently drinks and foods containing chocolate must be included in the diet within the confines of your calorie allowance , and that does n't mean just eating 1,000 calories worth of chocolate per day ( equal to 2 and a half king-size Mars Bars ) . |
| 9 | In addition the National Free Church Council supported a peace mission by W. R. Cremer , Radical MP for Haggerston from 1885 to 1895 and a Wesleyan . |
| 10 | Confusingly , it was another Richard Hutchinson , of the City and later of Stepney , who was co-treasurer for sick and wounded soldiers , widows , and orphans from 1643 to 1660 and a judge for imprisoned debtors in 1653–4 , and who served as co-paymaster of the navy under the treasurers in 1688–71 , appearing in the latter part of Pepys 's diary . |
| 11 | Zeta is an Algol-type eclipsing binary , with a range of from 3.6 to 4.1 and a period of 1.67 days ; suitable comparisons are Eta ( 4.4 ) , Delta and Chi Eridani ( 3.7 ) . |
| 12 | In addition to the muscle-stretching circuits , the recruits tackle endurance runs of up to six and a half miles , aerobics , assault courses and the Military Swimming Test . |
| 13 | My weight had by now gone down to six and a half stone . |
| 14 | There are five million people out of work and in 1995 this figure is expected to have risen to six and a half million . |
| 15 | This grew from three to three and a half million by 1981 and was created by a combination of net immigration , earlier and more frequent marriage , and the maintenance of relatively high levels of childbirth . |
| 16 | It 's best to do these on the track , but if one is not available , you can do repeats of two and a half to three and a half minutes on the road . |
| 17 | The tunnelling of Phase 1 of the project from the gorge site is scheduled to take three years to three and a half years to complete . |
| 18 | The duration of the very short-term financing which central banks could draw through the EMCF was increased to three and a half months ( an increase of one month ) . |
| 19 | This person 's had to three and a half weeks . |
| 20 | A continuous recording of both sodium concentration ( mV ) and pH was obtained ( at intervals of two seconds ) for up to three and a half hours ( median value=two hours 27 minutes , range from 56 minutes to 3 hours 32 minutes ) . |
| 21 | The real figure is closer to three and a half million . |
| 22 | Why allowed three minutes for , but I might extend that to three and a quarter , I think , if the time goes well . |
| 23 | He was jailed for five years for manslaughter but today it was reduced to three and a half years . |
| 24 | Mr Taylor 's considering his future — dividing his time between replying to three and a half thousand letters of support and nursing his mother , who , he revealed today , has suffered a stroke . |
| 25 | The 7-year sentence originally imposed was adjudged to be excessive and reduced to three and a half . |
| 26 | Do you know the share he bought for ten p each last week went down to three and a half pence each . |
| 27 | Gone down from ten pence to three and a half . |
| 28 | If to this were added the effects of a special pension at 60 for those who were unemployed , a new invalidity pension , the raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen and a uniform forty-hour week , a total of 2,000,000 jobs would be redistributed to the unemployed . |
| 29 | ASIF MUJTABA scored 125 , his second unbeaten century of the match , to steer Pakistan to 291-5 and a five-wicket win over Queensland in Brisbane . |
| 30 | The export volume series shows a rather different pattern , with a more modest rise from 1977 to 1981 and a greater degree of fluctuation in the following years . |