Example sentences of "[adj] and a half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er one time the locksmiths had a rise from ni eighteen , twenty to twenty-one a man , it was a big rise but the locksmiths ' union they altered it from to twenty and a half , twenty-one , twenty-one and a half , three rises before you went from a lad to a man 's raise , you know . |
| 2 | ‘ Hardly little at six and a half , or whatever that is in metric . |
| 3 | Arguments were fierce : some said six , some six and a half , some seven . |
| 4 | Six and a half inches ! |
| 5 | My weight had by now gone down to six and a half stone . |
| 6 | Mr Verne-Smith paid me up till the end of April , so that 's seven weeks you owe me — let's say six and a half to be fair . ’ |
| 7 | When I reached six and a half stone or so , my periods stopped . |
| 8 | That means that two-thirds of the population can be expected to sleep between six and a half and eight and a half hours a night , about 16 per cent regularly sleep over eight and a half hours , and another 16 per cent sleep under six and a half hours . |
| 9 | She wants to do more of it , though she is too old at 27 and too short ( five foot six and a half ) for catwalks . |
| 10 | For the next six hours — or a little less , because at Battersea the flood lasts five and a half hours , and the ebb six and a half — they would be living not on land , but on water . |
| 11 | So six and a half for that one . |
| 12 | Six and a half ? |
| 13 | Erm , six and a half for that one . |
| 14 | And technicolour , on the night er top of the shop tonight was Gerald who gave the vote of thanks , who got twenty six and a half . |
| 15 | SLIPPERY customers have sloped off with an east Belfastman 's six and a half foot corn snake . |
| 16 | when I lost my six and a half stone |
| 17 | the age of six and a half |
| 18 | so if we get two , we 've got six and a half ? |
| 19 | five six and a half |
| 20 | Right er six and a half . |
| 21 | Fifteen and a half Er well no I was nineteen and a half then you see , five years is n't it . |
| 22 | no he would er nineteen and a half stone he popped his head in the door when I went to see Jimmy |
| 23 | Fourteen and nineteen and a half . |
| 24 | Nineteen and a half . |
| 25 | ‘ You are now thirteen and a half … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Thirteen and a half is a responsible age . |
| 27 | The only one I got was that in his view thirteen and a half was too late for confirmation ; it was best done as a sort of early ‘ double shot ’ — like a jab of cholera with typhoid — along with baptism . |
| 28 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
| 29 | thirteen and a half , and that 's blinking , that 's Clark 's , new pair September . |
| 30 | Yeah she has , thirteen and a half . |