Example sentences of "a half [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember that accountants and business executives have two and a half times the average death rate from alcohol-related diseases ( doctors , incidentally , have three times the rate ) . |
| 2 | A test at Darlington police station revealed Crowther , an assistant manager at the Hurworth VG shop , was one and a half times the legal limit for driving . |
| 3 | Bruce Mearns , 34 , of Arns Grove , Alloa , admitted speeding and driving his motorbike with more than one and a half times the legal limit of alcohol on 6 February . |
| 4 | I announced an increase of grant in aid of 10 per cent. , roughly two and a half times the present rate of inflation . |
| 5 | And at Watercombe on 5 May the River Yealm was found to have two and a half times the permitted level of aluminium . |
| 6 | Driving-time : one and a half hours the first time , two hours the second . |
| 7 | If people cared to read that record , they would know that for two and a half hours the Liberal Democrats proved beyond — |