Example sentences of "only half [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of shouting by Opposition Members when I made my statement , I was not able to point out that the increase in the ratio of total Government expenditure to gross domestic product , both central and local , is only half a percentage point next year . |
| 2 | Houses have only half a storey too … |
| 3 | Within two years of starting my apprenticeship I was having to do roughly a man 's work , but my wages were only half a crown a week . |
| 4 | Caliban is only half a person at the best of times . |
| 5 | This was different , a need deep inside , a feeling of being only half a person without him . |
| 6 | Cheryl gazed for only half a minute . |
| 7 | At the start of the C2 first heat Reneiski/Zuravski of the USSR broke a paddle shaft but still managed to finish only half a minute after the Korean pair using just the blade at the stern to secure a repêchage place . |
| 8 | They make Utopia only half a dream ; |
| 9 | said only half a stone actually . |
| 10 | Moving at the pace of the infantry , they had not covered any great distance in the interim and were in fact only half a day 's march ahead when Ramsay reached Lockerbie in the Johnstone country . |
| 11 | Headmaster — We will have only half a day at school this morning . |
| 12 | In the case of ‘ minor events ’ which were arranged to cope with less complex proposals the programme was similar but scaled down to take only half a day . |
| 13 | The hours of London tailors were fixed by statute , but the journeymen could still complain that the masters called upon them for only half a day , leaving them in their public houses all morning . |
| 14 | But erm , it 's , it 's terrifying , and when we get , as and Jack 's made a good point and , and it is a good one , that perhaps if we spent only half a day when somebody joins the depot and said to them , this is the geography of our depot , and this is where everywhere is , and this is how you get from one side of it to the other . |
| 15 | Oh tha so it 's only half a day 's ever ? |
| 16 | Only half a spoon of sugar per cup . |
| 17 | When Michael was 5 the family moved house , only half a mile , to a larger house nearer Magdalene College , Howfield beyond Castle Hill . |
| 18 | Christmas shoppers were given 25 minutes to evacuate the area before the van exploded in Market Street only half a mile away from the headquarters of the British Army in Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | The Hotel Orion was only half a mile away . |
| 20 | On one occasion , when the Land Rover was only half a mile away , I had to go three miles to reach it . |
| 21 | In the wilds of Bodmin Moor , yet only half a mile from the busy A30 trunk road , is the tiny hamlet once renowned for its unconventional religious practices and known as being the ‘ Gretna Green ’ of Cornwall . |
| 22 | I live only half a mile from the canal , and visit those parts of it nearby regularly . |
| 23 | He asked if , in the circumstances , the South Metropolitan service could be extended to Tooting Broadway , only half a mile beyond the Tooting Junction terminus . |
| 24 | The proposal from National Wind Power is for 15 wind turbines , each 24 metres high , to be erected only half a mile from the park 's southern boundary on Kirkby Moor — a Site of Special Scientific Interest . |
| 25 | But only half a mile away you 'll be in force 5 to 7 and choppy water , excellent if you 're a fit expert . |
| 26 | Yet another fortress stands on a promontory only half a mile away . |
| 27 | It is only half a mile away , near the Docklands Arena at the other end of the Mudchute . |
| 28 | The bank on this side is low , only half a metre above the white plain of the snow-covered river . |
| 29 | But if you crossed to the wrong post there was a devil of an arguament because someone ended up with only half a strip |
| 30 | Only half a generation later the Dutch had found them in Borneo and more were revealed in 1829 in the Urals as part of the Russian drive to open up the mineral resources of the interior . |