Example sentences of "[adj] [is] half a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Ah but th th th there 's a rack and w one goes on and holds the horn post up to the boot while it 's driven , then it comes out and there 's two , one 's half a tooth , so it ensures one or the other 's in , and they work like that . |
2 | That 's half a kilo , six eighty |
3 | That 's half a sack . |
4 | $850,000 — that 's half a mill more than we got to do Easy Rider . |
5 | From Britain — you 'd probably smuggle it to France , put it through a maze , you know , take it south , country roads ; that 's half a day with two drivers . |
6 | I often wonder about this er a demijohn would imply that 's half a john would n't it ? |
7 | So we 've said that , so that 's a hundred interview sheets twelve hours in a day usually , unless your name 's Billy , twelve hours in a , half a day , should of said , so that 's twelve hundred times two two thousand four hundred so that 's half a box , call it two and a half thousand |