Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] and a half " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was some hour and a half away . |
| 2 | It was a very low-budget British picture , shot at Pinewood studios in black and white and sought to do little more than provide an entertaining hour and a half or so , with a topic to which a great many people could relate — National Service . |
| 3 | Back at the Military Port in Marchwood , the working day for the remainder of the regiment would not start for another hour and a half . |
| 4 | And so on and so on for another hour and a half , sweating and dazed , until at 4.48 a.m. , extremely painfully , out comes young Tom ( not such a bad name ; commonplace , I know ) , emerging head looking like a terrifically cross blue Brussels sprout , splosh go the fluids , splat goes the placenta and there he is . |
| 5 | Ellen and I lingered on in Mama Sipcott 's for another hour and a half ; indulging in the sailor 's shorebound pastime of planning the perfect voyage . |
| 6 | He says they told us to wait for two hours which we did then they told us to wait another hour and a half . |
| 7 | But a doctor did n't arrive for another hour and a half , by which time Mrs Johansen had died from a heart attack brought on by the fracture . |
| 8 | I bet he does n't get up till about , well it 's eleven now I 'll give him another hour and a half ! |
| 9 | They carried on in this fashion for another day and a half , travelling at night to conserve energy . |
| 10 | While the discussions of partnership in validation were taking place in the late 1970s , therefore , the CNAA had had some decade and a half of validation experience , but the rapid expansion of subject areas and such relatively recent developments as the DipHE and modular courses , and the uncertainties surrounding public sector higher education in a swiftly changing economic climate , all helped to strengthen the view that the Council should not move too rapidly into a higher gear of change . |
| 11 | Just a couple of miles from San Gimignano on the road to Certaldo , a turning on the left leads on amidst fields , olive groves and vineyards for a further mile and a half or so to the tiny hamlet of Pancole . |
| 12 | So what , where 's this page and a half that you said |
| 13 | and have it back Saturday and then they ring up two hours later saying it 's another week and a half again |
| 14 | The investigators knew that within an hour or so of their arrival at the accident site , but they had to work for another year and a half to find out why : |
| 15 | The Russian ambassador in Kiev has described Ukrainian independence to other diplomats there as a temporary phenomenon , unlikely to last more than another year and a half . |
| 16 | But they took me away after that awful morning and did n't send me back to Byron House for another year and a half . |
| 17 | But er the these production investment activities are associated really with production engineering , er very closely aligned with development and erm unless you can do those between now and the end of nineteen ninety five , when we start the P I phase in nineteen ninety six before you can really make any progress you would then have to do a further year and a half of production engineering so in the new quotations Eurofighter are making a case for what they term a development assurance phase , some advance production engineering work starting later this year and going on until the end of ninety five but when we start P I in ninety six , we can start with a bang and make fast progress . |
| 18 | I du n no , I could I could back up and remove WordPerfect , which frees about another meg and a half of memory . |
| 19 | After only eighteen months breathing the dust of the docks , Ramsey taught for six years and a half in a greenhouse . |
| 20 | Earlier in the week Kit Prescott and I had a long , relaxed hour and a half with one of the top African politicians . |
| 21 | In the vision of the Four Beasts in chapter 7 , Antiochus " changes the seasons and the law " and his rule will last " a time and times and half a time " ( 7.25 ) : perhaps three years and a half . |
| 22 | Finally , the time of persecution is stated again to be " a time , times and half a time " ( 12.7 ) , that is three years and a half , in the vision of the two angels which concludes the book . |
| 23 | The Scots had compensated for the lack of indigenous wealth by developing a tradition , over the previous century and a half , of regarding themselves as far more powerful , more important , more interesting than their remote geographic position and comparative poverty actually entitled them to be . |
| 24 | When , at its first meeting in 1831 , the British Association called for a report on the state of mathematics it elicited only three sections , on algebra , trigonometry and the arithmetic of sines , which almost completely ignored the major developments of the previous century and a half . |
| 25 | By the early eighteenth century , the Jacobite supporters of the deposed king had become closely associated with popery , and the English church and state had assumed the role of a full and active member of the international Protestant alliance , a role which radical Protestants at home had been unsuccessfully urging on them throughout the previous century and a half . |
| 26 | His youngest daughter Margaret married John Hastings Earl of Pembroke in 1359 , and although she died two years later , Pembroke remained high in favour at court and , with royal encouragement , embarked on a plan to reunite the inheritance of his ancestor William Marshall , which had twice been partitioned in the previous century and a half . |
| 27 | Queen Street station , a scant mile and a half away , had burgers , sandwiches , shell pies , french fries and french sticks , bridies and pasties and patties . |
| 28 | Supper had been over a good hour and a half . |
| 29 | Oh a good hour and a half |
| 30 | The vineyards of Sillery are indeed an extension of the lower slopes of Verzenay , where they stretch out along the flatter , frost-prone ground on the plain beneath the Montagne de Reims , taking a good kilometre and a half to rise a mere twenty metres or so . |