Example sentences of "[conj] a half day " in BNC.
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| 1 | or a co or a half day |
| 2 | At one time , you could n't travel more than a half day across Ireland without coming across the Draoicht Suan in one form or another . |
| 3 | But with the parson , the youngsters do a half day in the mill and a half day at his school , an' you would n't believe the difference it 's made to those little 'uns . |
| 4 | But , ’ she now smiled from one to the other , ‘ it would be an experience ; and , as Annabel told me , I 'd get one and six a week and a half day off , besides a full day every month . ’ |
| 5 | We did say at the discussion , that we did a four and a half day or a five day construction site safety |
| 6 | erm and a half day in another location is point seven five |
| 7 | The first part of the one and a half day course deals with all the key elements of TNT on a formal lecture/discussion basis . |
| 8 | This includes a minimum wage for a five and a half day week , and daily and hourly rates for part-time workers , maternity rights , annual leave and sick leave , payslips and proper contracts of employment . |
| 9 | ‘ Not bad for one and a half day 's work , ’ he said smugly . |
| 10 | Since the length of the lunar month is about twenty-nine and a half days and a calendar month can not contain a fractional part of a day , it was arranged that the calendar months were alternately of twenty-nine and thirty days . |
| 11 | Lord Silsoe , QC , opening up the CEGB campaign and taking two and a half days to do it ( there 's nothing like Latin for spinning words out ) , said that the board 's case had three main points . |
| 12 | But give us a good meal first , wo n't you — I have n't had good home-cooking for … for two and a half days . |
| 13 | Cruising at 150–185 mph , he expects the circumnavigation to take five and a half days . |
| 14 | In rural Third World communities the average transit time is one and a half days ; in Western countries it is about three days in young healthy adults ; among the elderly it is often over two weeks . |
| 15 | The course follows the American precedent , with two and a half days each week allocated to in-house tuition , augmented by home study , and governed by an acronym which becomes fixed in the minds of all students : DPR , or , Daily Practise Routines . |
| 16 | Two and a half days of hard crowbar work revealed what looked like half an acre of tongue and groove floorboarding , supported on hefty joists . |
| 17 | ‘ There are five of us now and we open five and a half days a week to deal with debt problems , ’ she said . |
| 18 | The Grand Pilier d'Angle route took two and a half days and weighed in at 6c and A4 . |
| 19 | Climbing in a pure alpine style , without additional support , they spent six days climbing the Kishofer route on the Diamir face , and a further two and a half days to descend . |
| 20 | Filming just the ELR train scenes took two and a half days , one shooting finishing at 04.00 hours , and all for about six minutes of the 90 minute drama Angels , which was a pilot for a possible TV series . |
| 21 | Few would deny the convenience for shoppers of large numbers of local stores with long opening hours on six and a half days each week , but there is no doubt that consumers pay for the convenience . |
| 22 | It took him two and a half days to reach Edinburgh . |
| 23 | But it was coming up to thirty nineish and the war breaking out so the one and a half days a week started to change to five days , which gave you a w a regular wages of about thirty shillings . |
| 24 | Well w we just er opened it s I think it was three and a half days a week . |
| 25 | It took one and a half days to the confluence with the Tisza with mosquitos , heat , sometimes unbearable , and camping wild on sandbanks . |
| 26 | I took maternity leave in October 1986 and came back to work part-time in July 1987 working two and a half days each week . |
| 27 | This will take the form of Preliminary Training ; a core part in the new Module 20 which has been expanded to last one and a half days followed by a written assessment with a pass mark of 75% ; and Specialist Training — both on and off the job which has been tailored to be appropriate to the area that the prospective RPS will be working in . |
| 28 | The senior management team spent one and a half days in Cheddar , Somerset , on a variety of teamworking tasks , one of which included mapping an underground cavern . |
| 29 | The testing at Buenos Aires-1 took two and a half days , Jeff App says , and the calculated formation damage ( skin values ) for the well 's producing layers were approximately 50 for the lower and 13 for the upper layer . |
| 30 | Everyone was in a good mood because not only was it the last day of school today , but everybody had had one and a half days off school already . |