Example sentences of "[noun] [num] [conj] a half " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next six hours — or a little less , because at Battersea the flood lasts five and a half hours , and the ebb six and a half — they would be living not on land , but on water . |
| 2 | Nineteen fifty one for the S S F two and a half . |
| 3 | She wants to do more of it , though she is too old at 27 and too short ( five foot six and a half ) for catwalks . |
| 4 | It seemed to me that it was wanting in every detail , but the objective facts are that I was five feet two and a half , weighed eight stone five , and had my fair share of acne . |
| 5 | Erm , five foot three and a half . |
| 6 | My Lord the only point of interest and it 's really one that I took in the of the submission is that if you use an up to date nineteen ninety three figure for calculating it when it was first back to years three and a half , two and a half and one and a half years ago , then intre it would n't be fair if interest is awarded on that as well because in a sense the increase in the figure that inflation and the increased cost of living has produced because you use an up to date figure , probably equates with the interest and we can the figure an up to date one to avoid just that otherwise it would be getting the figures for each of those years and then working out interest . |
| 7 | Ah sorry yeah so the fif the the five percent or the fifteen point seven and a half or whatever it is |
| 8 | Whereas during the 1980–81 period the unemployment rate in the South East was on average three and a half percentage points lower than the national average , it currently stands close to one percentage point lower , while the unemployment rate in Greater London is equal to the national average of 8.7 per cent . |
| 9 | On the other hand , from about age seventeen and a half , the higher the median age at first marriage , the higher the median age at first birth , too . |
| 10 | At five foot one and a half , Jo is the ideal rider for Bubbles . |
| 11 | you 're shoe was size twelve and a half but we have to buy thirteens for trainers |
| 12 | Fay Ten and a half . |
| 13 | He 's five foot two and a half , he walks with a limp , he plays the piano and he 's had a string of beautiful girlfriends . |
| 14 | Five foot two and a half sex thimble cuddly Dudley Moore with the beautiful girlfriends , the limp , Peter Cook and the piano . |
| 15 | The only one I got was that in his view thirteen and a half was too late for confirmation ; it was best done as a sort of early ‘ double shot ’ — like a jab of cholera with typhoid — along with baptism . |
| 16 | Each of us lived in a concrete box , nine feet long and six feet wide , with walls one and a half foot thick , and 14 air holes . |
| 17 | The Tory performance was in fact one and a half percentage points better in The Economist 's regular sample of provincial English districts than it was three years ago , at the height of the rebellion against Mrs Thatcher 's poll tax ( see table 1 ) . |
| 18 | Naked Gun Two and a Half . |
| 19 | Naked Gun Two And A Half |
| 20 | Naked Gun Two And A Half . |
| 21 | She must have some complaint , Alida decided , to stay in this house two and a half , three hours , and not ask for the bathroom , it is unnatural . |