Example sentences of "be [art] [adj] [conj] half a " in BNC.

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1 That sign must also be no more than half a square metre in area and all signs should be removed within two weeks of a sale being completed .
2 The first English gold coin was struck only in 1255 and it was not until 1344 that the country was able to begin to sustain what proved to be no more than half a millennium of minting a gold denomination in its regular coinage .
3 The council said the courses would be no more than half a full GCSE course , allowing pupils to concentrate on other subjects they choose .
4 Only half of the counter had opened up at this early hour and there were no more than half a dozen people in the place , most of them in uniform .
5 Cambridge put up a tremendous fight and there was no more than half a length between the crews for 14 minutes .
6 In Elizabethan Willingham the typical holding was no more than half a yardland , a size which in practice varied from 14 to over 20 acres .
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