Round 1 of the Olympiad is a three-and-a-half hour examination including six more difficult, long answer questions, which serve to test entrants ' puzzle-solving skills.

This lengthened the normal three-and-a-half hour drive from Nashville to Memphis to five hours or longer.

Theodus conceded after the first hour of balloting, but Presser ordered the roll call to continue to the end ( it lasted another three-and-a-half hours ) to humiliate Theodus.

In the United States, critic Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying it was " beautifully designed, intelligently written, acted with conviction, it's an uncommonly thoughtful epic.

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, calling it " delightful and sly ", and directed with " light-hearted enchantment " by Newell.

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Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four and praised it for allowing " all the financial wheeling and dealing to seem complicated and convincing, and yet always have it make sense.

" Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote, " This movie is an exception to the general rule that big special effects can wreck a comedy ...

Empire magazine gave the film 4 / 5 stars, referring to it as " fascinating " and " cerebral " Jeffrey Lyons stated that the film was " mesmerizing " while Richard Corliss in Time Magazine referred to the film as " cinematic " Mick LaSalle of The San Francisco Chronicle wrote that " the picture never stops coming at you " Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three-and-a-half stars ( out of four ) and included the film among his Great Movies list.

USA Today gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four and called it " the most imperfect of the year's best movies ".

Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, was impressed by the acting, and gave Selena three-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote, " Young Selena is played by Becky Lee Meza, who has a big smile and a lot of energy.

Children under twelve were charged three-and-a-half dollars per week and, at first, boys over twelve were charged four dollars a week and girls were charged five ; by August 1842, the rates were made identical, regardless of gender.

Aitken contracted tuberculosis, and when he was four years of age he was admitted to Cappagh Hospital, Dublin where he was an inpatient on a TB ward for more than three-and-a-half years, being cared for and educated by Catholic nuns.

Following a trial at Southwark Crown Court lasting four weeks ( including jury deliberation for three-and-a-half days ), which ended soon after a jury member was evicted for discussing the case in public, Charles and Diana Ingram and Whittock were convicted by a majority verdict of " procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception " on 7 April 2003.

Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote " Bigelow is an interesting director for this material.

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half out of four stars and praised George Clooney's performance: " Clooney has never been better.

USA Today gave the show three-and-a-half stars out of four and called it, " one of the season's coolest, funniest and most genuinely offbeat treats.

The Cape Florida Channel ( ten to eleven feet to three-and-a-half meters deep in 1849 ) and Bear Cut ( four feet little more than one meter deep in 1849 ) are the deepest natural channels into Biscayne Bay, and provided the only access for ocean-going vessels to Biscayne Bay until artificial channels were dredged starting early in the 20th century.

Since 1978, school years have been divided into nine " blocks " of three-and-a-half weeks each ( usually followed by a four-day " block break " to round out to four weeks ), during which students are enrolled in a single class ; what would normally be covered in a full semester's worth of class at a typical university is covered in just seventeen-and-one-half Cornell class days.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four and felt the film was well-cast and " deserves comparison with All the President's Men among movies about journalism ".

USA Today gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote of him: " Sarsgaard deserves more credit than he'll probably get for his multi-layered performance ".

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four and praised the voice-over narration as " poetic and colorful.

Online critic James Berardinelli highly praised the film, giving it three-and-a-half out of four stars, stating, " No current film maker appears to love and understand Shakespeare as well as Branagh, and never has his affection for the Bard been more apparent than here.

Los Angeles Times writer Jonathan Gold gave it three-and-a-half out of four stars and viewed it as " far more consistent " than the duo's Paid in Full, calling Eric B.

Sandy Masuo, writing for the Los Angeles Times, rated the album three-and-a-half stars out of four, finding that the compilation's " unsettling ambience " suited the " deliciously creepy " atmosphere of the series.

Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half out of four stars.

However, Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four and compared it to Rosemary's Baby saying, " Birth is less sensational and more ominous, and also more intriguing because instead of going for quick thrills, it explores what might really happen if a 10-year-old turned up and said what Sean says ".

Within a state or territory, the number of enrolled voters in each Division can not vary by more than 10 % from the average across the state, nor can the number of voters vary by more than 3. 5 % from the average projected enrolment three-and-a-half years into the future.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated each segment individually, awarding them ( on a scale of four stars ): two for the prologue and first segment, one-and-a-half for the second, three-and-a-half stars for the third, and three-and-a-half for the final.

James Christopher Monger of Allmusic gave the EP three-and-a-half stars out of five, saying " While each of the seven tracks contained herein are fully realized, they are as unfocused as they are beautiful, resulting in an intangible, dreamlike atmosphere that reduces each cut – no matter how deep – down to a mere scratch.

Wayne Shipping owns dozens of freighters and handles three-and-a-half billion tons of freight each month.

There will be a rapture of the Gentile church followed by a great tribulation of seven ( or three-and-a-half ) years ' duration during which Antichrist will arise and Armageddon will occur.

When the casket was opened, a small book of the gospels, measuring only three-and-a-half by five inches, now known as the Stonyhurst Gospel, was found.

Her father Peter drove a bread delivery truck, and her mother, Marguerite ( née Maltese ), started her in show business by putting her on the television show Juvenile Jury at the age of three-and-a-half.

For instance, " The National Anthem " opens with radio transmissions, has a harder " fuzz bass " guitar sound and lacks the horns and free jazz ending of the studio version ; " I Might Be Wrong " emphasizes the rhythm section and is more of a rock tune ; " Morning Bell " is driven by Phil Selway's live drums rather than a drum machine ; " Idioteque " builds into a frenzied audience singalong ; " Dollars and Cents " replaces strings with synthesisers and ends with a guitar coda not heard on the album ; while " Everything in Its Right Place " is about three-and-a-half minutes longer, and makes use of improvised effects on a Korg Kaoss Pad.

To ears informed by the twenty-first century, it's the uncanny feeling of listening to three-and-a-half decades of experimental music history as delivered in a chillingly prescient sort of reverse premonition ...

When the show was revived in 1976 as The $ 128, 000 Question, its theme music and cues were performed ( albeit with a new disco-style arrangement for the theme ) by Charles Randolph Grean, who released a three-and-a-half minute single, " The $ 128, 000 Question " ( the show's music and cues as an instrumental ), with the B-side (" Sentimentale ") on the Ranwood label ( 45rpm release R-1064 ).

Stead was signed by Sheffield United from Sunderland for a fee of £ 750, 000, potentially rising to £ 1. 2 million, on a three-and-a-half year deal on 11 January 2007.

" Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying " the movie finds countless opportunities for humorous scenes, most of them with a quiet little bite, a way of causing us to look at our society ", noting that " by using a central character who cannot talk, is sometimes able to explore the kinds of scenes that haven't been possible since the death of silent film.

In a 2008 rating of New Zealand shopping centres by a retail expert group, Botany Town Centre received three-and-a-half stars, just under the maximum rating of four stars, based on the criteria of amount of shopping area, economic performance, amenity and appeal as well as future growth prospects.

Having not been drafted by an NHL team, he was signed as a free agent by the Vancouver Canucks and played three-and-a-half years within the organization.