Example sentences of "and a half day " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | But , ’ she now smiled from one to the other , ‘ it would be an experience ; and , as Annabel told me , I 'd get one and six a week and a half day off , besides a full day every month . ’ |
3 | We did say at the discussion , that we did a four and a half day or a five day construction site safety |
4 | erm and a half day in another location is point seven five |
5 | The first part of the one and a half day course deals with all the key elements of TNT on a formal lecture/discussion basis . |
6 | This includes a minimum wage for a five and a half day week , and daily and hourly rates for part-time workers , maternity rights , annual leave and sick leave , payslips and proper contracts of employment . |
7 | ‘ Not bad for one and a half day 's work , ’ he said smugly . |
8 | Since the length of the lunar month is about twenty-nine and a half days and a calendar month can not contain a fractional part of a day , it was arranged that the calendar months were alternately of twenty-nine and thirty days . |
9 | Lord Silsoe , QC , opening up the CEGB campaign and taking two and a half days to do it ( there 's nothing like Latin for spinning words out ) , said that the board 's case had three main points . |
10 | But give us a good meal first , wo n't you — I have n't had good home-cooking for … for two and a half days . |
11 | Cruising at 150–185 mph , he expects the circumnavigation to take five and a half days . |
12 | In rural Third World communities the average transit time is one and a half days ; in Western countries it is about three days in young healthy adults ; among the elderly it is often over two weeks . |
13 | The course follows the American precedent , with two and a half days each week allocated to in-house tuition , augmented by home study , and governed by an acronym which becomes fixed in the minds of all students : DPR , or , Daily Practise Routines . |
14 | Two and a half days of hard crowbar work revealed what looked like half an acre of tongue and groove floorboarding , supported on hefty joists . |
15 | ‘ There are five of us now and we open five and a half days a week to deal with debt problems , ’ she said . |
16 | The Grand Pilier d'Angle route took two and a half days and weighed in at 6c and A4 . |
17 | Climbing in a pure alpine style , without additional support , they spent six days climbing the Kishofer route on the Diamir face , and a further two and a half days to descend . |
18 | Filming just the ELR train scenes took two and a half days , one shooting finishing at 04.00 hours , and all for about six minutes of the 90 minute drama Angels , which was a pilot for a possible TV series . |
19 | Few would deny the convenience for shoppers of large numbers of local stores with long opening hours on six and a half days each week , but there is no doubt that consumers pay for the convenience . |
20 | It took him two and a half days to reach Edinburgh . |
21 | But it was coming up to thirty nineish and the war breaking out so the one and a half days a week started to change to five days , which gave you a w a regular wages of about thirty shillings . |
22 | Well w we just er opened it s I think it was three and a half days a week . |
23 | It took one and a half days to the confluence with the Tisza with mosquitos , heat , sometimes unbearable , and camping wild on sandbanks . |
24 | I took maternity leave in October 1986 and came back to work part-time in July 1987 working two and a half days each week . |
25 | This will take the form of Preliminary Training ; a core part in the new Module 20 which has been expanded to last one and a half days followed by a written assessment with a pass mark of 75% ; and Specialist Training — both on and off the job which has been tailored to be appropriate to the area that the prospective RPS will be working in . |
26 | The senior management team spent one and a half days in Cheddar , Somerset , on a variety of teamworking tasks , one of which included mapping an underground cavern . |
27 | The testing at Buenos Aires-1 took two and a half days , Jeff App says , and the calculated formation damage ( skin values ) for the well 's producing layers were approximately 50 for the lower and 13 for the upper layer . |
28 | Everyone was in a good mood because not only was it the last day of school today , but everybody had had one and a half days off school already . |
29 | I could get used to two and a half days at school a week instead of five ! |
30 | Sir , i having listened to the discussion nearly two two days , two and a half days , it seems to me that I come very firmly with the conclusion that the A f A fifty nine , the A nineteen north and B one three six corridors are simply not practical . |