Example sentences of "and a half [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Excellent : nine and a half pounds of chocolate and a pair of socks . ’ |
| 2 | He was a big boy , weighing nine and a half pounds at birth . |
| 3 | The method has been in use since 1977 and requires only two and a half minutes of therapy time , according to reports . |
| 4 | And with seven and a half minutes of injury time Milton hung on to their slender lead ; final score here at Bishops Cleve was Bishops Cleve nil , Milton United one . |
| 5 | Okay we now have seven and a half minutes on affiliation other groups . |
| 6 | North estimates , for example , that if a company has 2,000 personal computers and it takes an average of one and a half hours per year to upgrade software on each of them , then company-wide , this activity takes a total 3,000 hours . |
| 7 | The actual report is completed in one and a half hours under examination conditions . |
| 8 | We were two and a half hours over guidebook time : so much for the armchair boasts of perfect stamina ! |
| 9 | The show is one and a half hours of entertainment for children of all ages . |
| 10 | After two and a half hours of deliberation , they awarded damages against The Sun , editor Kelvin MacKenzie and freelance journalist Ken Irwin . |
| 11 | three and a half hours of work . |
| 12 | Subdued , tired , and recovering from two and a half hours of surgery Frankie Vaughan still knew how to make an entrance . |
| 13 | They found that much of the large negative basis in the first one and a half hours of trading was due to the use of stale prices from Friday 16 October in computing the index . |
| 14 | BARB 's research shows that the average individual watches around three and a half hours of television per day ( and has done so for at least the last 10 years ) , just over half of this being ITV . |
| 15 | This is at the comparatively small cost of three hours therapy time per individual if there are two therapists running a group ( one and a half hours of therapy time per individual if there is one therapist ) . |
| 16 | Two and a half hours for setup at twenty eight pounds an hour . |
| 17 | EVEN WITH half a dozen arias omitted , the Opera North production of Mozart 's La Finta Giardiniera makes a long evening , three and a half hours including interval . |
| 18 | Lumbar puncture , performed three and a half hours after admission , showed turbid cerebrospinal fluid containing 1500 white cells/µl ( 100% polymorphs ) , protein 5.7 g/l ( normal 0.15–0.45 g/l ) , and glucose 1.2 mmol/l . |
| 19 | Three and a half hours after noon , he was close enough to the Earn to hear the shouting and deduce that the army landed that morning at Levenmouth had completed its march northwards through Fife and even its struggle , harassed by Tuathal , through the defile of Glen Farg , and was now here , on one side or the other of the Earn crossing . |
| 20 | Wool sorters at Exeter worked " from the time of being able to discern the wool until the evening " , which amounted to about eight and a half hours in winter and twelve in summer . |
| 21 | The whole service has taken some five and a half hours in gale force winds and heavy seas . |
| 22 | Angers is within easy reach of Paris ( 2 and a half hours by train ) , Brittany and the Mont-St-Michel , perhaps France 's most beautiful monument . |
| 23 | Eight miles further on were Mick and Paddy — I had two and a half hours before sunset to reach them . |
| 24 | Japan invests two and a half times per head more than the UK . |
| 25 | If it 's jewellery it 's harder , it will show up , erm if you 're marking things like engagements rings , then the best thing to do is actually take photographs of them with a ruler or some sort of erm comparison of the size of the item cos if you do like a a ring on a photograph it 's gon na , it 's gon na come out like a , so if you got a ruler to say , you know , it 's only sort of one and a half inches in width or whatever , then we can actually get a clear picture of , of that . |
| 26 | Fifteen and a half feet in diameter , it enabled a mason to raise a quarter of a ton of stone at a time . |
| 27 | The boot comprised a squared box covered in thick leather bound at each end with iron , measuring about two and a half feet in length and four inches square at the ends . |
| 28 | Coat 225g/8oz mixed nuts and 50g/2oz pumpkin seeds in 25g/1oz melted butter , one and a half teaspoons of paprika , one teaspoon of ground cumin , half a teaspoon of ground allspice and quarter of a teaspoon of salt . |
| 29 | Three and a half tonnes of home made explosives were inside , needing only seconds to prime . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's a bit of an aphrodisiac apparently , ’ I explained — ‘ which is tremendously useful when you 've just done a two-and-a-half hour show , driven 45 minutes home , eaten a baked potato the size of a human foot , scrubbed off two layers of greasepaint , nose shading , violet eyeshadow and seemingly permanent mascara , brushed one and a half cans of lacquer off the split ends , flossed the gums , massaged the bridgework , popped the ear plugs over the acupuncture needle , put the airplane mask over the anti-ageing eye cream and — pièce de lack of résistance — applied the ‘ Tonic Bust ’ to prevent anything descending further south during the night . |