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
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