Example sentences of "a [num] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 3 Walk part of the Pennine Way on a eight and a half mile circular walk , north of Calder .
2 A fifty and a thirty , eighty pence today for you my love
3 He opens with a history of homebuilts dating from Sir George Cayley ( who would have approved the sage advice to get an experienced hand to make the first test flight of your creation , though in his case the unfortunate man was more adept at handling a coach-and-four than a flying machine ) and proceeds through the Flying Flea era to the post-war rebirth in France and the USA , thence to Rutan and the foam/fibreglass revolution , and on to the 1980s emergence of IFR-capable alabaster-smooth hot-rod kitplanes that will blow the socks off anything Vero Beach and Wichita are ( or more accurately are n't ) building .
4 Hawke 's own losses amounted to two ships , a 74 and a 64 , and 300–400 men .
5 If you 're doing twenty in a forty and a copper comes along and pulls both of you , it 's gon na be you that gets fucking done , not him !
6 For example , if an a 2 and a b 2 vibration of a C 2ν , molecule are both singly excited , we calculate the representation of the final state like this :
7 The operation follows an armed robbery at a village post post office near Reading and a 2 and a half hour police chase during which an inspector was shot at .
8 And I 'll have to get a two look , cos she was a thirteen and a half so I bought a one .
9 I usually fish four or five maggots on a 12 hook ; two or three grains of sweetcorn on a 10 or an 8 .
10 I had my problem hamstring and knew that I had n't had the necessary training to run a 200 metres after a 100 and a relay .
11 A bonus of £10,000 was available at the hole for a hole-in-one and the American 's tee shot landed a foot beyond the hole and spun back to a foot short of the hole .
12 On the spectrum of improbabilities , the spotlight turns out to illuminate only the narrow range from the left-hand end ( certainty ) up to minor miracles , like a hole-in-one or a dream that comes true .
13 She now has in her possession a Vox Standard 25 , a Yamaha SG3000 , two acoustics and two Fender Jaguars , a 1963 and a 1968 model .
14 Lamb rampaged to 50 with a six and a pull for four in the same Su'a over .
15 The association between Cryptosporidium , chronic diarrhoea and a proximal small intestinal mucosal enteropathy was reviewed over a six and a half year period .
16 They each completed a six and a half mile circuit — in aid of Centrepoint , the charity which helps London 's homeless .
17 Two fours , a six and the odd wicket , and that 'll be your lot .
18 At times this caused quite a scuffle , especially when we tried to insist on lumping several together and pretending that the result was a nation , albeit a federal one — rather in the same way as the parliamentary managers of the eighteenth century used to bribe Scottish peers by the batch , half a dozen or a dozen at a time .
19 But other platforms will come in the future so we can see us using sta very low cost standard hardware components , we might stack up erm half a dozen or a dozen erm workstations with a high speed interconnect between them each running a SQL Server .
20 A dozen and a half red ones should do , I think .
21 And she cut a dozen and a half splendid blooms and laid them reverently in Sally-Anne 's trug .
22 But Leeman 's experienced trio added a three and a two to go through 20-16 .
23 The Apothecaries looked no further ; they approached Charles Cheyne , a Chelsea landowner of some substance , who agreed , in 1673 , to let the Society a three and a half acre plot at a rent of £5 per annum .
24 ‘ In my lunch hour I run a three and a half mile circuit of the village where I work .
25 When it became apparent that the land was too small to construct a museum on , the Terras bought a three and a half acre site opposite the Monet gardens .
26 Fine china and investment banking inevitably er , er er er er suffered from the economic conditions so did entertainment er , which also brought two extra burdens er , firstly the er marked reduction in tourism and , er , for the first time , a three and a half million pound er , bill for Alton Towers ' loss-making winter quarter which I think we , we 've flagged er , quite consistently .
27 ‘ My biggest catch to date is a three and a quarter pound trout from the River Test . ’
28 throw in a three and a two
29 Stable jockey John Carroll partnered both winners , making all the running in each case , bringing Soba Guest home five lengths clear in the Whirlies Selling Stakes and ushering Anusha to a three and a half length victory in the Auchingramont Maiden Stakes .
30 Having slugged it out with Rufus in the Bowmer & Kirkland Novices ' Chase , the lead swapping several times , he survived a blunder at the second last to power his way to a three and a half length victory .
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