Example sentences of "half a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The apparent aim was to strengthen the Sunday Telegraph , which with a circulation of 667,000 was nearly half a million copies behind the daily and facing a fight for its life . |
| 2 | However , it would be possible to require all newspapers with a mass circulation ( say , for example , half a million copies ) to carry , without payment , the equivalent of television 's Party Election Broadcasts — that is , pages of free advertising in the same party ratio as PEBs on television . |
| 3 | His first Green novel , Stark , sold more than half a million copies . |
| 4 | Obviously inspired by MADONNA 's example , ( and it seems that she 's about to be millions of dollars richer as over half a million copies of Sex changed hands last week ) CURVE have decided to come over all raunchy and are releasing a Stateside compilation which goes under the provocative title of ‘ Pubic Fruit ’ , although whose pubes are involved we are not informed . |
| 5 | Minnigrey ( 1851–2 ) , illustrated by ( Sir ) John Gilbert [ q.v. ] , is said to have increased sales of the London Journal to half a million copies , for which newsagents had to send special wagons to the station . |
| 6 | ‘ There are half a million soldiers out here , ’ she explained , ‘ and cold , wet and hungry they all look alike . ’ |
| 7 | In Peru , there were half a million laws , some conflicting , but all administrative . |
| 8 | Steve Kerton says they expect fifty thousand people at the race this weekend … half a million watch the sport in Rotterdam … |
| 9 | Erm but maybe this , this issue is , is , could be important in the sense that you , you 've got tt er if you take China as a whole you 've probably got well in excess of a million villages erm you 've probably got a denser population in the south than the north so you 've got more than half a million villages in the south |
| 10 | Last year over half a million sheep were exported from the UK for death in foreign abbatoirs and the numbers are set to increase . |
| 11 | The British Embassy made arrangements to evacuate the British colony and by April almost half a million Parisians were travelling to safety in the south of France . |
| 12 | Why does the Minister think that — as the hon. Member for Saffron Walden ( Mr. Haselhurst ) said — those having a close knowledge of adult education , including the voluntary sector , women 's institutes and members of the Conservative party , are so deeply unconvinced by the Minister 's replies that there were half a million signatures to a petition opposing the Government 's proposals ? |
| 13 | Almost half a million meals were served last year , an increase of forty-seven per cent . |
| 14 | HALF a million Germans held a mass protest against racism last night . |
| 15 | The Pru has half a million motorists on its books and is sending them each a booklet when their policies are renewed explaining the benefits of conversion . |
| 16 | Of about half a million foundlings christened in workhouses after 1728 , only 40 per cent survived to their second birthday . |
| 17 | The health union negotiators said the award was ‘ totally unacceptable ’ Judith Carter , the unions ' lead negotiator and national officer for Cohse , described the award as a ‘ derisory insult to Britain 's half a million nurses ’ . |
| 18 | The People 's Palace opened its doors and its Winter Gardens to a stupendous half a million visitors within the first five months . |
| 19 | What a marvellous chance for half a million visitors to see what changes there have or have n't been . |
| 20 | Olma , the Swiss Agriculture and Dairy Fair brings around half a million visitors to St Gallen each year . |
| 21 | Almost half a million visitors a year come to wander round the grounds or float past in punts on the River Cherwell . |
| 22 | Although there are half a million Methodists , there tend to be 50 speakers who dominate proceedings I am told , but the democratic ( half ministers — half members ) quota means that some circuits can elect seventeen-year-old girls to be their delegates to the conference . |
| 23 | Early this week the general secretary pointed out that the recession has thrown almost half a million building workers on the dole . |
| 24 | I write as chairman of Connoisseurs Scotland , the association of top Scottish hotels whose members provide something close to half a million bed-nights a year . |
| 25 | In the past ten years , Japanese people have gone overboard for squid , consuming half a million tonnes annually . |
| 26 | The Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore has shown that the city draws in nearly half a million tonnes of firewood every year . |
| 27 | We asked for their advice ( not all of them , there are nearly half a million users ! ) and the question that we asked was … |
| 28 | Despite the fact that Moscow had severed relations with the dictator Batista in 1952 , the USSR had made somewhat erratic purchases of Cuban sugar throughout the 1950s , which amounted to half a million tons in the peak year , 1955 . |
| 29 | Between 1670 and 1750 the capital 's intake of seaborne coal from the north-east averaged an annual half a million tons . |
| 30 | in its first six months the agency has handled half a million cases , but there 've been hundreds of complaints about the way it operates . |