Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] half a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They trudged along the Overclyst road for perhaps half a mile , and then turned down a lane on the left . |
| 2 | It was increasingly argued that unnecessary State control of personal and community affairs was wrong in principle , serving merely to weaken the capacity of the individual to enhance life chances ; arguments not heard for perhaps half a century were rehearsed . |
| 3 | Vernon remained silent for perhaps half a minute . |
| 4 | He flinches for only half a second , but it 's enough to take me inside the hall . |
| 5 | Cheryl gazed for only half a minute . |
| 6 | The hours of London tailors were fixed by statute , but the journeymen could still complain that the masters called upon them for only half a day , leaving them in their public houses all morning . |
| 7 | You have met the little beast for only half an hour and her father has known her all her life ! ’ |
| 8 | And one day there will be a case , one which even you will believe , of a sailor lost in a whale 's mouth and recovered from its belly ; maybe not after half a day , perhaps after only half an hour . |
| 9 | Some of the crew puffing after only half an hour or so , which is n't surprising as the only exercise they take in the normal run of things is putting their legs under a table and aiming their snouts at the trough . |
| 10 | After just half an hour in the pool , it was back to the troubled waters of the Foreign Office . |
| 11 | So , after nearly half a century of keeping its head down , it is beginning to take a higher profile abroad . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Betty after about half a minute . |
| 13 | After about half an hour , Jane reappeared . |
| 14 | After about half an hour 's unsteady plodding along the sand , leaving dinosaur hoofprints and a small steaming roundabout in the middle of the beach , my buffalo turned back for home , slotted a few heads of corn into his cheeks by the way of reward and let me dismount . |
| 15 | Anyway , after about half an hour — the whole lesson — I just dried up and said something like , ‘ Well , that 's it . ’ |
| 16 | After about half an hour , the shooting died down and someone helped me inside the Cathedral . |
| 17 | It was the thought of this that had her standing up after about half an hour in preparation to go to her room . |
| 18 | After maybe half a minute , the door was opened and Carson was hit by the rise in the music level and a sickly aroma which billowed out around him . |
| 19 | After around half a mile branch right to cross the Mellte above the Upper Clungwyn Falls . |
| 20 | Early in 1983 , a consensus seemed to be emerging among theorists using computer models of the atmosphere that this material , now spreading across the northern hemisphere , would lead to a cooling of perhaps half a degree Centigrade , with the peak effect occurring in the late summer of 1983 or the winter of 1983–84 . |
| 21 | I realised , to my embarrassment , that I had eaten the equivalent of exactly half a cake . |
| 22 | Sharks , when the current is in their favour , can smell blood issuing from a body at a distance of nearly half a kilometre . |
| 23 | Unlike Poland or Hungary , East Germany has no nationalism upon which to fall back , as the dogmas of nearly half a century evaporate . |
| 24 | Type Report on Yugoslav Spitfires by Peter Arnold in the April issue ( p70 ) evoked many memories for me and caused me to rummage around for some half-forgotten photos of nearly half a century ago , and there it was , Mk VcJK808 ‘ B ’ with yours truly in attendance . |
| 25 | After the passage of nearly half a century , how easy it is to criticise the decision taken by a general in the midst of a most desperate battle . |
| 26 | He had seen her passionate anger and had wanted to kiss her senseless , had heard her lie to him and had wanted to shake the truth out of her , had almost caused her to swoon and had wanted to hold her close and tell her he would n't allow anything to hurt her again — all in the space of about half a minute . |
| 27 | The towpath , covered with a build-up of earth and grass which had been accumulating since commercial traffic on the canal ceased in the 1930's , was cleared to a width of one metre for a distance of about half a mile . |
| 28 | With the Atlantic Ocean floor spreading away in opposite directions from the ridge , Iceland is getting wider at a rate of about half a centimetre per year , so a lot of new material has to be added continuously in the zone of tension in the middle , or else the two halves would soon be completely separated . |
| 29 | She normally emerged every five or six hours for a hunting trip of about half an hour , returning to the den with eels . |
| 30 | The first REM sleep period is usually shorter than the subsequent ones — about fifteen minutes in adults , as against later periods of about half an hour . |