Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [art] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tender carries 80 gallons of water and a hundred weight and a half of coal . |
| 2 | He did n't boil it , for fear the bleach might evaporate ; after the mixture was warm he added twenty bottles of Yugoslav Riesling , two bottles of Guinness and a pound and a half of oranges cut into segments . |
| 3 | I have about a pound and a half in a gigantic envelope … |
| 4 | We cram over a pound and a half of plum , sun-ripened tomatoes into every single jar : unlike some pasta sauces which are thickened with a generous helping of starch , rather than a generous helping of tasty tomatoes . |
| 5 | Fruit grew on the compound : a few bananas , lemons , mangoes , pawpaw and avocado pears weighing up to a pound and a half . |
| 6 | This year they 're averaging a pound and a half . |
| 7 | just can you nip in and get me a pound and a half of liver ? |
| 8 | Yeah , but when we have a pint and a half o er , pound and a half of mince so you should have a three quarters of a pint . |
| 9 | Strega rounded home pylon about a second and a half ahead of Dreadnought now about five to seven seconds back . |
| 10 | She tried not to snatch his arm off , and waited all of a second and a half before , ‘ I 'd like to , very much , ’ she accepted . |
| 11 | It was a personal best performance by a second and a half , and now Matthew is hoping she will still be picked to represent Cleveland in the English Schools Championships at Hull next month . |
| 12 | An operator suggested designing a special apron to hold all three parts so that he could save a second and a half per car . |
| 13 | And we go way back — way , way back , back to the time when you could still buy mono records , when kiwi fruit were yet to be devised , when the khaki-clad representative of the Automobile Association would salute the passing motorist , when a packet of Gold Flake cost a groat and a half and you still had change for a flagon of mead . |
| 14 | Back in the days when a groat and a half , etc . |
| 15 | She put her name down to speak in the great debate about the state of the English Faculty that was held in the University Senate ; and in the Cambridge University Reporter for the 18th February , 1981 , occupying a column and a half of small print , sandwiched between contributions from two of the University 's most distinguished professors , you may find Robyn 's impassioned plea for a radical theorization of the syllabus . |
| 16 | He 'd have done a par about the lead in his pencil if you 'd asked him — a stick and a half — a column — whatever you needed ; and all of it full of wit and erudition . ’ |
| 17 | This was followed swiftly by the news that Alain Lequeux , the rider of the runner-up , Behera , had lodged an objection against the winner for interference a furlong and a half from the finish of an exceptionally rough race . |
| 18 | As they migrate to their breeding sites , from distances of up to a kilometre and a half , many will be squashed by traffic ; sometimes singly , sometimes in pairs with the males already piggybacked on the females , in the characteristic prenuptial position of anurans ( tailless amphibians ) known as amplexus . |
| 19 | The vineyards of Sillery are indeed an extension of the lower slopes of Verzenay , where they stretch out along the flatter , frost-prone ground on the plain beneath the Montagne de Reims , taking a good kilometre and a half to rise a mere twenty metres or so . |
| 20 | Most classes last for an hour or perhaps an hour and a half . |
| 21 | He was killed about an hour and a half ago during a German counter attack on our positions . |
| 22 | He fished bloodworm and a three metre whip from a peg near the greenhousees and after a blank first hour and a half eventually caught around 100 fish . |
| 23 | The sortie has taken something over four hours to complete , for a little over an hour and a half in the air . |
| 24 | Back at the Military Port in Marchwood , the working day for the remainder of the regiment would not start for another hour and a half . |
| 25 | An hour and a half later , Jakki had a great interview in the can . |
| 26 | He looked round , and realized she had cleaned the whole office in the hour and a half since he had seen her . |
| 27 | Within an hour and a half , the Exxon Valdez had eluded the coastguard radar tracking system and plunged at full speed on to the rocks of Bligh Reef , rupturing eight cargo holds , each big enough to house a 15-storey building . |
| 28 | As on every other Saturday morning , the inhabitants of Little Saigon in Orange county will crowd around their televisions to watch an hour and a half of Vietnamese programmes . |
| 29 | Stewart stayed with him for about an hour and a half and Lamb hung around for a while , but Smith was his main ally and , as the day ebbed away , it seemed as though only the new ball stood between England and a draw . |
| 30 | And so they sat with clammy hands for an hour and a half and let go only when the lights came back on . |