Example sentences of "[det] half [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the final decision was with Cabinet , it would be most unlikely that they would overturn the views of a committee which had spent a number of weeks going through the proposals almost line by line — particularly given that half the Cabinet were on the committee and the Prime Minister was in the chair . |
| 2 | By taking four years within our period , each half a century apart , one sees them glaringly clearly . |
| 3 | I managed to keep afloat then till , as I said we found this half a lifeboat and there was couple of fellows and er I managed to swim over to that and pull myself up on it and for there the inflatable off the standby boat came alongside , picked us up and put us on then standby boat . |
| 4 | What 's this half a day then ? |
| 5 | The town itself lay some half a mile distant , its gentle grey houses clustered , in a hollow , on each side of the twining silver river , like a flock of drowsy sheep . |
| 6 | The Department will be connected via a private telephone line to the processing units in the computer room which is some half a mile distant . |
| 7 | This too was a major piece of engineering , some half a mile long and eighteen feet wide , and making use of an estimated 4,000 oak trees . |
| 8 | She returned some half an hour later to find the Shill 's bedroom door open and Joseph gone . |
| 9 | Mrs had got home in her jeep with just chauffeur and one extra bodyguard , defying the pleas of the other wives , some half an hour after Kaptan and I had left with the Corporal , but she had n't been able to get the Colonel on the military net for nearly two hours after that . |
| 10 | ‘ I could have used some half an hour ago , in the sauce . |
| 11 | Having deliberately taken her time , Luce descended the stairs some half an hour later , looking flower-fresh , her wispy fringe brushed to one side , her hair curling loosely on to her shoulders . |
| 12 | And was still wondering some half an hour later when Rosa had settled her down for the night but frustration , sharper than any pangs of hunger , was keeping her awake . |
| 13 | He 'd returned some half an hour later to transport her down again . |
| 14 | I mean really what he should have done if it , if it was that difficult he should have gone back another half a brick and the j bricked it up all the way |
| 15 | After ascending for another half a mile the line dropped steeply into the quarry . |
| 16 | A report from the Srebrenica Press Centre received in Sarajevo yesterday said the Serb offensive was continuing and Serb forces had advanced another half a mile into the area held by Bosnian forces . |
| 17 | After another half a minute , the power is passed to the third person and so on until everyone has had a turn at passing the power . |
| 18 | Lay me on another half a gram ’ … and they 'd go , ‘ Alright ’ … in the end , you 'd owe them a coupla grams and you 'd have to go shoplifting in Chester or something 'cos you could n't go round town in case they were there … . |
| 19 | She shrugged , knowing the name would do him no good , since she would n't be born for another half a millennium . |
| 20 | Because they phone me up and said , Look we needed another half a page in this for us to get another hundred pound . |
| 21 | The talk in the sea lasted for another half an hour . |
| 22 | ‘ Another half an hour before school starts again , ’ he observed . |
| 23 | " You wo n't see her for another half an hour . " |
| 24 | I think , if we went on for another half an hour or forty five minutes , we could clear virtually everything . |
| 25 | which added another half an hour to the journey |
| 26 | it 'll be ano well another half an hour it 'll be back on the road again |
| 27 | Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home . |
| 28 | And I think it 's probably at least another half an hour difference down there |
| 29 | the hour had gone and we could of stayed probably another half an hour without realizing that the hour had come |
| 30 | Well it 's gon na be a long time off that yet , another half an hour |