Example sentences of "[prep] a half [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 50 After a half century of building and prosperity in the newly proclaimed Empire , Sigmar vanishes into the east . |
| 2 | The Dubliners had 58 runs to spare after a half century by Mark Cohen helped them reach 181 . |
| 3 | The shrewd Smailes has already agreed to buy the beers all night in the event of a half century being scored from this direction this summer , in one innings that is . |
| 4 | SCOTVEC courses for beginners are on the basis of a half day per week for one year while the NWRAC Home Machine Knitting Course requires a full day per week for two years , or three if Part 2 is included . |
| 5 | Oh I suppose , like a half pint ? |
| 6 | Normally six cases will be listed for a half day , which would allow about 30 minutes per case if all the claimants attended , but a significant number do not . |
| 7 | Membership can run for a full year or for a half year ( either January 1 — June 30 or July 1 to December 31 ) . |
| 8 | erm My cause for concern , and I think it 's one that 's been echoed in a number of places , is the still very high figure for food-poisoning outbreaks , for food-poisoning cases , erm you 'll see we 're not as high as the previous comparable half-year of last year , which was ninety-two , but that included the Keble outbreak , which you 're well aware of , but at thirty-two for Oxford for a half year , that 's a very high figure . |
| 9 | To ensure you get a full charge , just leave on for a half hour or so longer than normal . |
| 10 | Or are you still going to tell me that you were alone , alone all evening except for a half hour in a café ? ’ |
| 11 | You stick the hook through the slug about a half inch from one end and then cast to a spot where the current will carry the slug beneath the roof of streamer weed , then place the rod in a rod-rest and watch it very carefully . |
| 12 | I had about a half hour to kill , I reckoned . |
| 13 | How many of us would n't be happy to make it through a half century in half as good shape . |
| 14 | Milk was a local produce from Fauchon 's , Marsh Farm , this would be delivered around Lower Halling by hand-cart loaded with a churn and buckets and dispensed from the buckets with a half pint measure into jugs placed on windowsills , and covered with beaded doilies to keep out flies and dust . |
| 15 | Detergent one teaspoon of washing powder with a half pint of lukewarm water . |
| 16 | The reduction in the plasma CRP concentration as the acute phase response subsides may be similarly rapid , with a fall from peak with a half time of 48 hours , as hepatocyte production of CRP rapidly decreases . |
| 17 | For example , the morning play on the Saturday was condensed into a half hour package and there was some great stuff in the morning . |
| 18 | it was very clever , I watched the first couple because people who like Harry Enfield 's comic characters switched on , just to see what he was like and before you knew it you were twenty minutes into a half hour programme and you stuck with it to the end . |
| 19 | Tony poured her out a generous measure into a half pint glass . |
| 20 | The Little Avon was used to feed the millpond via a half mile long leat , the mill powered by five large internal wheels , producing between them over 40 hp . |
| 21 | Discussing a character and finding an outline of what is required in a half hour tutorial can save a lot or time on a tight rehearsal schedule . |
| 22 | And writing it out in a half hour or hour lesson was almost impossible because it took too many sheets of paper . |
| 23 | What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ? |
| 24 | It was well over a half mile long , consisting of 2 military bands ; more than 100 mounted men ; well over 100 armed retainers on foot ; 50 Irvine archers in Lincoln green outfits ; the Duke of Atholl with a company of his Atholl Highlanders ; several open carriages ; trumpeters ; a jester on a mule ; Lord Eglinton as Lord of the Tournament ; Lady Jane Seymour as the Queen of Beauty ; and the 13 competing knights . |
| 25 | When you 're not out walking around this lovely area of the Borders try seeing it from the back of a horse — the Westertoun Riding Centre will take you out on anything from an hourly ride to a half day trek through the Lammermuir Hills . |
| 26 | Occasionally I treated myself to a half hour browse in a bookshop . |
| 27 | I favour a 1in roughing gouge for this operation , kept well sharpened and with the bevel rubbing it is safe , fast and very little sanding is required : you also have about four times the cutting edge available compared to a half inch bowl gouge , more time between re-grinds . |
| 28 | Andrew Guest , of United , said the proposals for speed restrictions would mean buses travelling over 50 speed humps on a half hour round trip . |
| 29 | But if you wanted to go to any of those , those I marked for my days off , apart from the one to Blagden on a half day . |
| 30 | and we 're off on Friday , I 'm on a half day on Thursday , so I think I should have my day off on Wednesday . |