Example sentences of "half a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ashore , Alan hunted round the hull , searching for the stuck fly , getting both arms and half a leg wet whilst doing so . |
| 2 | Another useful extension of telling and retelling stories is the technique of telling only half a story leaving the pupils themselves to determine what happened next . |
| 3 | But his ‘ green ’ Budget was condemned as half a figleaf to hide his party 's environmental shame . |
| 4 | You write quietly about overwhelming things , no fuss or fury , and never for half a sentence have you ever bored me . |
| 5 | The offering for staff at Evertidy Furniture in Wolverhampton , West Midlands , worked out at less than half a pub measure each . |
| 6 | Dot watched half a dumpling sliding on to her plate . |
| 7 | Tighten the rod ( clockwise ) by half a turn to pull the neck backwards slightly . |
| 8 | If I 'm in bed , it might take me half a minute to wake up . |
| 9 | He knew that time was ticking away remorselessly , though less than half a minute had passed . |
| 10 | ‘ Give you half a minute to get in or be chucked in , ’ said Joe . |
| 11 | But it might take half a minute to combine this range from this relatively large file . |
| 12 | The result is that the aircraft is about 30° off the inbound holding track , with less than half a minute to run to the holding point . |
| 13 | Amiss allowed half a minute to pass before he pushed open the door and stood in front of the quintet . |
| 14 | If processing time is negligible there will be an additional half a revolution to return to the next prime track record , and the total time to locate and process the overflow record will be precisely one revolution . |
| 15 | If the overflow record is held on the same cylinder as the prime data there will be an average wait of half a revolution to refer to the overflow record . |
| 16 | Sh I should have at least half a bunker left . |
| 17 | Secondly , there were the regions of the old industrial periphery — the North , Wales and Scotland — which for half a century had suffered higher than national rates of unemployment . |
| 18 | Thus Cuba , which for nearly half a century had run its economy on the basis of near-total reliance on the United States , was faced with the need to find a new market for 700,000 tonnes of sugar and an alternative source of oil supplies . |
| 19 | At that time Kiev was one of Russia 's greatest cities and within half a century had a great cathedral and hundreds of churches . |
| 20 | More than half a century has passed since he was brought to Swinbrook to escape the horrors of the blitz . |
| 21 | Unlike Poland or Hungary , East Germany has no nationalism upon which to fall back , as the dogmas of nearly half a century evaporate . |
| 22 | He spent half a day teaching me about the various policies and endowments , the way to figure cash surrender values , the matter of group insurance , and the various approaches to a prospect by the insurance salesman . |
| 23 | So I thought I 'd go to sea with the ebb , spend half a day pottering off the fascinating banks of Ray Sand and Dengie Flat , and come back to approach Winter Marsh from seaward . |
| 24 | ‘ The vicar would certainly agree with you , but you should talk to Jordan , though not unless you have half a day to spare . ’ |
| 25 | It only took me half a day to decide that I wanted the job . |
| 26 | Over a two week period children spent half a day meeting unexpected situations from a road accident to an obstruction on a railway line , testing their ability to think quickly . |
| 27 | The introduction of a trading lag of half a day reduced , but did not eliminate , these arbitrage profits . |
| 28 | Convene your team and spend half a day undertaking a fundamental review of customer-service orientation " in your area . |
| 29 | There are also some local variations in the measurements and because of this reliable detection of growth over a period of half a day seems unlikely . |
| 30 | it used to take half a day to cut our grass . |