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Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [num] [det] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	They had previously won compensation of 1 million yen each for eight former employees dismissed in the ‘ red purge ’ and had set them up in business near the company 's housing project .
2	for two eights or like that for four that way , so .
3	The ferocity of ants in attack is a consequence of their haplodiploid sex determination : sisters in a brood are genetically identical with half of one another and half identical with the rest ( their fathers being haploid ) , so that , on average , they are 4 identical to sisters and only half to offspring .
4	At such a temperature the deuterium and tritium fuels are so hot that they would vaporise every material known , stripping the atoms apart into a ‘ plasma ’ of electrons and nuclei roaming free of one another .
5	About half past nine that evening , after one of Mrs Parker 's excellent dinners , Teesdale sat alone in his study .
6	Oh I went at half past nine this morning .
7	half past nine this morning .
8	Contractors turned up to start work at The Boynes at around half past eight this morning .
9	I think I got up about half past eight this morning .
10	As it happened , Hamilton called Carrington into his office shortly after half past five that afternoon , again excluding Benson .
11	Do n't know whether they thought I was gon na leave home at half past five this morning .
12	At half past two this morning my wife died .
13	At half past two this afternoon Mr Cruikshanks injected at the crural arteries 5 pints of Oil of Turpentine mixed with Venice Turpentine and Vermillion .
14	Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on .
15	Cowboy was on at half past two this morning .
16	There was a bus went down School Lane at half past two this morning cos I sent it down there .
17	He was late yesterday , got a brand new vehicle and , yet I mean if , if was getting here at one and yesterday he got to ours at half past eleven , so erm , it was half past eleven that 's right , it was dead on , so erm , erm whatever 's he going to be like when it gets near to Christmas ?
18	do n't forget , remind me at half past eleven those flap jacks
19	The march was longer than I expected and we staggered in at half past six this morning , having done twenty-seven miles in just over nine hours , which is n't bad .
20	I were tidying up at half past six this morning .
21	And erm they had their opening , big opening night Thursday so he was , he was out , he was up at half past four that morning so I thought well we might as well go .
22	No I had a a chap at the door at half past four this afternoon and it was this woman for the British Market Research Bureau er
23	It 's half past seven that 's on .
24	And if you could get here by half past seven those of you who have got items , it 'll be much appreciated cos it takes quite a time to set them out .
25	It was half past seven this morning .
26	The meeting will take place at St Michael 's first school in Marston Road and half past seven this evening .
27	Mrs Knelle would not be meeting me until half past ten that night , after the theatre .
28	They had been noticed by Jessica at half past ten that morning , searing the peaceful waters of Lough Swilly with a little sporty powerboat , bright red and snarling .
29	I recollect about half past ten that evening on the fourth .
30	Thank you so if I press play and record now twenty one thirty , twenty two thirty it 's half past ten thirty five to half past ten that 's alright so if I press play and record now it should come on at wha one and a half and ten one forty so it should come on when it says one forty .