Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] half [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it reaches us , we 'll have calm for half an hour . |
| 2 | I want a physio for a kid with cystic fibrosis , but she 's down in ITU and wo n't be free for half an hour . ’ |
| 3 | I kept them interested for half an hour and now I ca n't even remember what I said . |
| 4 | Andropulos took his glass — a scotch and not a small one , and disposed of half the contents in one gulp . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you free in half an hour ? ’ |
| 6 | One new size has replaced two old ones , making it impossible for half the customers to get a correct fit . |
| 7 | CARDINAL : The fair Quaker will be too hard for half a dozen antagonists . |
| 8 | The convergence of geopolitical events , of the consequences of the technology that has been fermenting in the post-war years , of new ideologies , of government processes are of a scale and significance unprecedented for half a century . |
| 9 | The linewidths of the components of 1,290 , 1,322 , and 1,435kms -1 remained nearly constant for half a year , indicating saturated maser emission , but the line-width of the 1,385kms -1 component varied with the flux density , S , roughly as S — 0.5 , suggesting an unsaturated maser . |
| 10 | In these cities it was not unusual for half the working population to be jobless , while the wages of those in work — including professional footballers — fell . |
| 11 | If he had bumped into anyone worthy of half a mention he would have told us . |
| 12 | I come now to what will be the first of many simplicities which I shall offer to you this afternoon ; for I am sure you already realise from what you know of my speakings and writings — and it will be all the more painfully obvious in half an hour 's time — that I am incurably simpliste . |
| 13 | The Ticket Desk at each venue is usually operational from half an hour before the performance . |
| 14 | We have recently moved to an area of Norfolk that is infested with holiday homes : our village is rendered lifeless for half the year , and local people find it impossible to afford homes because prices have been forced up by the greater buying power of outsiders . |
| 15 | ‘ The thought of being in one for a week and unconscious for half a day would n't have appealed to me very much . |
| 16 | I added several Large Amazon Swords , which looked great for half an hour before the Oscar dug them up . |
| 17 | At 5 a.m. the barrage stood still for half an hour while the infantry mopped up and re-formed behind it . |
| 18 | If a rat is placed in a marked box and given an injection of apomorphine , it sits still for half an hour with its hair erect and shivering . |
| 19 | A mere two hundred miles from Washington had brought them into a different season although it was obviously the first hint of real autumn in New York : around them others were hurrying because they were too thinly dressed or tugging at coats and gloves that were unfamiliar and awkward after half a year at the back of the closet . |
| 20 | I ought to be married with half a dozen kids of my own . |
| 21 | If a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting , the meeting shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week at the same time and place or to such time and place as the Directors may determine . |
| 22 | If a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting , the meeting shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week at the same time and place or to such time and place as the Directors may determine . |
| 23 | As far as Fri Fri is concerned , running costs are equal to half a penny for every pound of fried product , ’ he says . |
| 24 | The corners of an octahedron can be located by erecting a perpendicular , height equal to half the side length , on the midpoint of each face of a cube . |
| 25 | With odd numbers of phases the motor can be operated in the " half.stepping " mode , producing the increment of motion equal to half the normal step for each excitation change , e.g. the seven-phase phase motor is excited alternately three- and four-phases-on , giving the excitation sequence : ABC , ABCD , BCD , BCDE , CDE In the hybrid motor there are two phases , which can be excited with positive or negative currents , or , if the motor is bifilar-wound , there are four phases each excited with unipolar current . |
| 26 | Almost a year ago he told an environmental conference in Glasgow that land equal to half the area of Glasgow would be needed to dispose of the region 's sludge . |
| 27 | Yet because the philosopher 's adult has traditionally been male , his children boy children , and his educational programmes designed to facilitate the transition between them , the ideal of the fully human person has been masculinised to the point where otherwise thoughtful and sometimes good and wise men have unashamedly admitted that this defining ideal is not applicable to half the species . |
| 28 | Physically the Intel 8080 is a package approximately two inches long by half an inch wide by a fifth of an inch deep . |
| 29 | It was too long by half an hour ( running at two hours twenty minutes ) , the lighting was gloomy and the show was top-heavy in places and fluffy in others , but overall the magic of Joyce had prevailed . |
| 30 | You were late by half an hour this afternoon . |