Example sentences of "be [verb] more than half a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duties at 80 per cent on an estate of a million , only reduced by 30 per cent , because of the donor 's death before the end of the sixth year ( to borrow Gerald Venables ' terminology ) would mean that Nigel would be paying more than half a million in estate duty . |
| 2 | By then they were selling more than half a million major appliances annually . |
| 3 | It was in defence of the presumed ‘ sovereignty ’ of this peculiar nation — a product of the Quai d'Orsay rather than the creation of any Arab national aspiration — that countless thousands were to die more than half a century later . |
| 4 | This principle , that within each diplomatic rank ( ambassador , minister-resident , etc. ) precedence should be decided merely by seniority , was to lead more than half a century later , by the international convention of 1818 , to a final solution of most of the issues on which for generations so many energies had been expended and so much ink spilt . |
| 5 | We investigates and discovered that I was carrying more than half a litre of cyst . |