Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] a half " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this trick all you need is a small coin such as a fifty-pence piece or a half dollar . |
| 2 | Actually if you 've a complete number of repeats , it does n't matter too much whether it a full repeat or a half repeat at the edges , as both can be mattress stitched to give a continuous unbroken pattern effect . |
| 3 | I never caught one in those days of the sixties and seventies myself , though pound to nearly a pound and a half fish graced my net often enough . |
| 4 | A pound and a half please ? |
| 5 | there 's a term and a half left before he moves on . |
| 6 | The restaurant was little more than an intelligently decorated semi-basement with space enough for a bar and a half dozen tables . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ About a foot and a half long . ’ |
| 9 | The gap was about a foot and a half wide — wide enough for Sigarup to sit in the basket with his legs hanging down below . |
| 10 | The height , with your bloody shoes on , cos I was gon na say I 'm five foot and a half inch and I 'm taller than you |
| 11 | They 're about foot and a half blades on them . |
| 12 | The computer itself is a box , oh what , a foot and a half by a foot by two feet , very small . |
| 13 | Australia play India next then they play England , that 'll be a match and a half I think |
| 14 | In this test the material is in the form of a bar a quarter or a half an inch square and is often provided with a standard notch to initiate failure . |
| 15 | Then , abruptly , for the following day and a half there was neither sand nor palm trees , just a thirty-mile climb up a canyon of broken slate and rock . |
| 16 | Lefevre spent much of his time standing about in the street outside the theatre to no avail , whilst Thiercelin wasted a day and a half following up a couple of false trails supplied by articles in the local newssheet . |
| 17 | The people taking part commit themselves to half an hour of scripture based prayer each day and a half hour meeting with a ‘ Prayer Guide ’ each evening when they receive personal guidance . |
| 18 | The secret I find and you may over the next day or day and a half to a couple of days you may well see me just do that occasionally I 'll just throw my hands back down to me side . |
| 19 | So like , you 've only got a day and a half have n't you ? |
| 20 | See he get 's a day and a half off , I mean it 's like we , I mean well this is why Dave said , he said do you fancy he said |
| 21 | Now and then , on Saturday afternoons , she financed a mile and a half walk to Thirsk to visit Power 's Picture House . |
| 22 | The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’ |
| 23 | As she only had one lead rope , Perdita had to walk both ponies the mile and a half back to Robinsgrove . |
| 24 | I wo , I would like to go back to the days of my youth when we at Hogmanay there was usually frost and and and ice , and er we used to celebrate it partly on skates and it was great fun when you skated perhaps a mile and a half out of the town , and er er had a lovely ice festival and then we skated back and we had |
| 25 | A mile and a half down Green Lanes , half a mile down Nassington Green Road , one and a half miles the wrong way down Balls Pond Road , two miles down Kingsland Road , and then she was lost . |
| 26 | The exhausting discipline , which features a mile and a half swim in open water and a 40-kilometre cycle topped off with a 10-kilometre road race , is one of the fastest growing sports in Europe . |
| 27 | Ammunition exploded , bullets began to fly , John Burn was incredibly lucky to escape serious injury , a mile and a half mile away in Crook an excited Lance Henderson was dashing to his bike to see for himself . |
| 28 | Snow Blizzard is something of a quirky character but would win Lingfield 's mile and a half Taurus Handicap if adapting to the all weather surface . |
| 29 | I said look what if I 'm a mile and a half from college I 'm not doing that every day ! |
| 30 | And if you 're coming in towards Oxford City Centre on the A40 , coming in towards the Headington roundabout , you 'll find at the moment that it 's er about a mile and a half to two miles of very slow moving traffic approaching the roundabout itself . |