Example sentences of "have been half a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following her second disappearance her father wrote , ‘ I 've had little hopes of her — I consider what I write — since she has been half a year old . ’ |
| 2 | It must have been half a minute before Luke said in a scathing drawl , ‘ Find out ? |
| 3 | In Wilson 's eyes the condition of the British seaman was scarcely better than it had been half a century earlier . |
| 4 | But that had been half a century ago , and now most Catholics and many priests were arguing against it . |
| 5 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |