Example sentences of "a half [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should we not also still go for the , if we can , the one and a half times they work Saturdays ? |
| 2 | Each day we used to do say an hour in the morning , whatever time was available between leaving school and getting back , dinner time , then in the evening you might have two , two and a half hours you left you , you finished school , and er you might finish at eight o'clock if you were lucky you 'd finish at half past seven . |
| 3 | This is unsettling , and makes me realise that for those three and a half hours I have been the still and passive object of her intuition as well as her technical skill . |
| 4 | The man was relaxed and rested and Holly felt the tiredness brush through his mind and for nine and a half hours he had worked in the Factory at the lathe that fashioned chairs ' legs . |
| 5 | In just six and a half hours he has produced the Matterhorn . |
| 6 | It 's actually forty is it forty nine and a half hours it 'll be ? |
| 7 | She seemed pulled out , elongated by it , so that her shoes , her new bronze slippers with rosettes on the toes that Aunt Emily had said she must keep hidden at all times if possible since legs and feet were highly indecent , seemed far further away than the five and a half feet she knew separated them from the crown of her head . |
| 8 | Of course all I needed was a two-minute sit-down and in two and a half minutes I was not only fully recovered and ready to carry on , I had adrenalin pumping out the top of my hat in anger that my man had left me to die . |
| 9 | For two and a half years they watched their comrades in Spain slowly strangled , and never aided them by even a single strike . |
| 10 | Apart from the ‘ Hands off Russia ’ campaign of 1920 he feels that the British working class had never thought or acted internationally and , ‘ For two and a half years they watched their comrades in Spain slowly strangled , and never aided even with a single strike . ’ |
| 11 | In the course of three and a half years they were able to recover over fourteen thousand ounces of gold , three quarters of it fine , from the single cemetery of Sinú . |
| 12 | In two and a half years she has won over 40 trophies and hundreds of rosettes so do n't despair , Kathy , keep an eye on the condition and just enjoy your horse . |
| 13 | For two and a half years she has received no medical attention and has thus been denied one of the most basic conditions laid down by the United Nations for the detention of prisoners awaiting trial — namely , the right to choose her own doctor . |
| 14 | Yes it would , it would not be properly to , to just make one comment and that is that the next five hundred thousand that the local is therefore two point six million from the reserve fund , that is substainable for two and a half years it is not substainable beyond . |
| 15 | For another two and a half years I survived the mosquitoes and grew to love the people and was just looking forward to my first home leave when a letter from the Superior General appointed me to Vocations Director in the South of England ! |
| 16 | During the next three and a half years I often thought of this meal and of the amount I had to leave on my plate because I could not eat any more . |
| 17 | After saving up my hard-earned wages for the past four and a half years I managed to scrape the 1750 or so quid together and bought myself the most stunning quilted maple P.R.S. Custom you ever saw . |
| 18 | We reckon in about four and a half years I should have gone up at least a grade , so , allowing for the usual increments , and assuming that the mortgage rate does n't rise above the present eleven per cent , I should think we could afford to let Juliet stop work then . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't trust them and I have n't for the seven and a half years I 've been inside jail . |
| 20 | Well now , although it was not much more of a job really than an errand boy 's , but as I did that for five and a half years I got to know the people at the pawnbrokers , the cycle agents I got to know them so well , I knew the staff , I got to know the people who were pawning clues and that regularly , I was getting more information every year . |
| 21 | In two and a half days we 've had four men under |
| 22 | And then I decided very reluctantly to have an excavator and for three and a half days it worked down there and erm created a sort of Black Hole Calcutta and put all the stuff it had taken out , it spewed around so that it , there was just mud and no water . |
| 23 | During the seven and a half months I was on C1 I went to Crown Court twice , and each time I got remanded back into Holloway . |
| 24 | If it 's a million , if it 's a million and a half dollars it 's er three quarters of a million pounds |
| 25 | Within three and a half seconds he 'd made a couple of marks on the paper and shoved it back . |
| 26 | The two and a half weeks I had been away from home seemed like years . |