Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [coord] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last hour between half-a-million and a million starlings — impossible to estimate accurately — had been flying in from every direction . |
| 2 | Inflation is at its lowest level for three and a half years . |
| 3 | She suffers from deterioration of the spine , but her family claims she was left sitting on a bed without any back support for three and a half hours . |
| 4 | The effect of Christian Democrat hegemony for four and a half decades has been the perpetual incumbency of a small circle of politicians . |
| 5 | ‘ It would be marvellous if The Committee were to win the National , ’ Scott said , ‘ for the two owners have been immensely patient and have let me get on with bringing the horse back to his best after he had been off the course for two and a half years . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ People are saying , if you 've been in existence for two and a half years , perhaps you 've got something about you , ’ he says . |
| 7 | So far in our case studies we have examined only those media in one-party systems ; the contrast between these and a multi-party political situation is immediate and obvious . |
| 8 | When the judge called the jury back this afternoon they 'd been considering their verdict for one and a half days . |
| 9 | But he gave the lion 's share of the credit for the victory to Snodin , playing his first full 90 minutes for two and a half years after a series of hamstring and knee injuries put his career in doubt . |
| 10 | I was with Suu for two and a half weeks in April and I was able to tell her that this was going to happen today . |
| 11 | I 've had a girlfriend for two and a half years , but before that I 'd never spoken to a girl in my life . |
| 12 | The company , which is projecting a $80m to $100m loss for 1992 and a sizeable loss for first quarter of 1993 ended October 31 , also cut another 200 workers before Christmas . |
| 13 | She had worked in the supermarket off Mulfords Hill for five and a half months . |
| 14 | Nigel Gibbon has worked for the Government Legal Service in the Customs and Excise Department for three and a half years . |
| 15 | It was Scott who launched McWilliams on his Irish career after he had come home from England where he had made his start and Pat stayed with Scott for two and a half years before moving on . |
| 16 | Jacqueline has been employed by Basingstoke for two and a half years . |
| 17 | Wheeler said he had been a member of the force for twelve and a half years and had been on duty on the Docks since last August . |
| 18 | Then , a youngster who stole three cars would go to a young offenders institution for one and a half years . |
| 19 | Ted will always be remembered at Selhurst Park for his full-back partnership with Fred Dawes for three and a half years before the war , when the pair played 106 matches together in the League and Cup for the Palace . |
| 20 | Having run sixth to Desert Orchid in the Irish National the month following the Cheltenham race and then been beaten a short head by On The Other Hand at the big Punchestown festival in April that year , The Committee ran into a major training setback and never saw another racecourse for two and a half years . |
| 21 | The raw scores were then standardised to a scale with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 . |
| 22 | Overall , if one aggregates those three things , the level of settlement for the county was down thirty- one per cent on the year , compared with a national total , which was also in distress of fourteen and a half per cent down . |
| 23 | On 9 May , after a closure of four and a half years , the gallery reopens with , among other treasures , Whistler 's restored Peacock Room |
| 24 | The centre is the result of three and a half years of hard fundraising work by local people . |
| 25 | ‘ In the eyes of all but a small percentage of Irish people , the so-called armed struggle has degenerated into a campaign of sickening sectarian killing of fellow Irish men and women . ’ |
| 26 | His father , Peter , was a stylish midfield back in Gala 's Border Championship side of 1966–67 and a brilliant sevens exponent , while Rob Moffat toured with Scotland in the Far East in 1977 and coached Townsend at Galashiels Academy and Scottish Schools . |
| 27 | It may be fortuitous that if we spend this morning discussing criteria , there 'll then be a gap of one and a half working days for those who do n't have to travel far to consider possible answers to the second stream of the dialogue . |
| 28 | In the light of this and a vivid description of an unexpected home delivery to my husband — we were taking no chances — and I was rushed to the Birmingham Maternity Hospital , with 5 minute contractions , the evening before the 2nd Estimated Day Delivery with what turned out to be a false alarm ! |
| 29 | The violence of this and a similar incident was greater than " anything I have seen in my life short of war " . |
| 30 | The boiler is 120lbs per square inch pressure with two cylinders of three and a half inch diameter , four and a quarter stroke working on driving wheels which are ten inch . |