Example sentences of "a half [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the centre of the latter is only a half hour 's walk away , many of its attractions are the same ( and for these please see entry for Topp 's Hotel ) . |
| 2 | " Spring tide , seven and a half hour 's ebb , low tide at 12 . " |
| 3 | And then certainly in two and a half year 's time , a hundred and seventy million pounds is being spent by Water er putting in a new sewage station . |
| 4 | ‘ Not bad for one and a half day 's work , ’ he said smugly . |
| 5 | At about 7.30 p.m. , after two and a half hours ' sleep curled up on the floor of the trench , I made my way out of the orchard and on to the road . |
| 6 | This fire officer , however , refused to allow the use of a sizeable proportion of the props , around which the entire show was structured ; and , although the Prince and Princess of Wales were arriving in one and a half hours ' time along with five Cabinet ministers , and the cast would have no time to rehearse without the props they relied upon , he was not to be budged . |
| 7 | The task of David Pomeranz in writing , and Adrian Reynolds in presentation , was to get this story into a two and a half hours ' stage show and to make it entertaining . |
| 8 | Yet the two earliest recordings of the movement , by the celebrated disciples Willem Mengelberg ( 1926 ) and Bruno Walter ( 1938 ) , average seven and a half minutes ' duration . |
| 9 | Perhaps we 'd say " Three and a half minutes ' . |
| 10 | This would render fruitless two and a half years ' negotiations between LAG and BP Coal leaving LAG to start from scratch with a new company . |
| 11 | In Indonesia , in October 1990 , post-graduate researcher Bonar Tigor Naipospos was sentenced to eight and a half years ' imprisonment because he ‘ attempted to undermine Indonesian state ideology ’ through participation in a university study group and distributing banned literature . |
| 12 | AFTER TWO and a half years ' studious application , Tilbury Container Services Personnel Officer , Paula Lowe , is now a graduate of the Institute of Personnel Management . |
| 13 | Kenneth Tindall , 20 , of Woodvale Road , Grove Hill , was sentenced to two and a half years ' custody . |
| 14 | for each year of employment between the ages of 41 and 65 one and a half week 's pay ; |
| 15 | The basic award for each employee is calculated as one and a half week 's pay for each year of continuous employment over the age of 41 , one week 's pay for each such year between the ages of 22 and 40 , and half a week 's pay for each year between the ages of 18 and 21 . |
| 16 | The payment is calculated as one and a half week 's pay for each year of continuous employment over the age of 40 up to 65 for a man and 60 for a woman , one week 's pay for each year between the ages of 22 and 40 , and half a week 's pay for each year between the ages of 18 and 21 . |
| 17 | At the beginning of August he left for a two and a half months ' rest at sequestered Welsh and English houses . |
| 18 | erm the the order which one , one I concern , maybe we can discuss if to , if , if the defendants were prepared to undertake to erm provide any as to instruct within twenty eight days from today , the matter should be list on and this convention on a Friday , Friday in about two or two and a half month 's time from now , which will take us in the next term , I , I beg a suggestion |