Example sentences of "[adj] half [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Took about bloody half an hour to get it out the pan ! |
| 2 | out for me and erm , when he went in on Monday , erm it was the other one the lad that actually owns it , so I was in there for about bloody half an hour and we came home with some samples and one that I quite liked it was up on the wall and he said that is my best selling Axminster that I had , and it was like , it was maybe it was a bit too busy , it was , it was greyey and it was all different other colours in it , but it was a lot of flowers on it , it was n't a traditional Axminster you see Mike loves these traditional Axminsters and he does n't really , he wo n't really entertain anything else , erm , anyway I brought that sample home and what else ? |
| 3 | For example , the pH in the stomach of a great horned owl was 2.2 before a meal and increased to 2.4 half an hour after eating , with further increases to 2.7 two hours after the meal and 3.0 four hours afterwards . |
| 4 | Although the final decision was with Cabinet , it would be most unlikely that they would overturn the views of a committee which had spent a number of weeks going through the proposals almost line by line — particularly given that half the Cabinet were on the committee and the Prime Minister was in the chair . |
| 5 | By 1850 half the population lived in cities of over 10,000 inhabitants , far ahead of any other European country . |
| 6 | By taking four years within our period , each half a century apart , one sees them glaringly clearly . |
| 7 | but it annoys me that , why , you see , I 'm , I 'm asking for cover for technical half an hour in the morning |
| 8 | The crime of syphilis had made me ban sex from my mind for weeks ; now I was found not guilty half an hour with a textbook Conchis had given me to look at had convinced me his diagnosis was right — the libido rose strong . |
| 9 | I managed to keep afloat then till , as I said we found this half a lifeboat and there was couple of fellows and er I managed to swim over to that and pull myself up on it and for there the inflatable off the standby boat came alongside , picked us up and put us on then standby boat . |
| 10 | What 's this half a day then ? |
| 11 | The town itself lay some half a mile distant , its gentle grey houses clustered , in a hollow , on each side of the twining silver river , like a flock of drowsy sheep . |
| 12 | The Department will be connected via a private telephone line to the processing units in the computer room which is some half a mile distant . |
| 13 | This too was a major piece of engineering , some half a mile long and eighteen feet wide , and making use of an estimated 4,000 oak trees . |
| 14 | She returned some half an hour later to find the Shill 's bedroom door open and Joseph gone . |
| 15 | Mrs had got home in her jeep with just chauffeur and one extra bodyguard , defying the pleas of the other wives , some half an hour after Kaptan and I had left with the Corporal , but she had n't been able to get the Colonel on the military net for nearly two hours after that . |
| 16 | ‘ I could have used some half an hour ago , in the sauce . |
| 17 | Having deliberately taken her time , Luce descended the stairs some half an hour later , looking flower-fresh , her wispy fringe brushed to one side , her hair curling loosely on to her shoulders . |
| 18 | And was still wondering some half an hour later when Rosa had settled her down for the night but frustration , sharper than any pangs of hunger , was keeping her awake . |
| 19 | He 'd returned some half an hour later to transport her down again . |
| 20 | I mean really what he should have done if it , if it was that difficult he should have gone back another half a brick and the j bricked it up all the way |
| 21 | After ascending for another half a mile the line dropped steeply into the quarry . |
| 22 | A report from the Srebrenica Press Centre received in Sarajevo yesterday said the Serb offensive was continuing and Serb forces had advanced another half a mile into the area held by Bosnian forces . |
| 23 | After another half a minute , the power is passed to the third person and so on until everyone has had a turn at passing the power . |
| 24 | Lay me on another half a gram ’ … and they 'd go , ‘ Alright ’ … in the end , you 'd owe them a coupla grams and you 'd have to go shoplifting in Chester or something 'cos you could n't go round town in case they were there … . |
| 25 | She shrugged , knowing the name would do him no good , since she would n't be born for another half a millennium . |
| 26 | Because they phone me up and said , Look we needed another half a page in this for us to get another hundred pound . |
| 27 | The talk in the sea lasted for another half an hour . |
| 28 | ‘ Another half an hour before school starts again , ’ he observed . |
| 29 | " You wo n't see her for another half an hour . " |
| 30 | I think , if we went on for another half an hour or forty five minutes , we could clear virtually everything . |