Example sentences of "[prep] half a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was soon running errands for half a crown a day , sleeping on a board over the bath and doing Musgrave a favour by playing the toyboy to his wife . |
| 2 | And erm we erm when you got to about the third class I think you you was allowed to participate int he woodwork and metal er class , you used to go across for half a day a week . |
| 3 | Diane Brewer is finally being treated at the Eldene Health Clinic , where Health officials have been forced to hire in a dentist for half a day a week . |
| 4 | Well anyway , I I 'll definitely go up for half a day a week you know . |
| 5 | During the worst recession for half a century the British government is committing £55m to Manchester 's bid to stage the 2000 Olympics . |
| 6 | On your knees for half an hour every night with your rosary , that 's the right thing for young girls chasing holiness . |
| 7 | And I went , would she take , he says yes er half , I say , half a crown er a , for half an hour every Friday . |
| 8 | I find I can easily put things into perspective , see both sides of an issue , if I just sit around for a while and I probably do that for half an hour a day . |
| 9 | For half an hour the fun goes out of things . |
| 10 | For half an hour the children research into their own area of work . |
| 11 | Nigel says the support of the fans is worth half a second a lap and he believes that people power helps him to win |
| 12 | After half a mile the path emerges onto a road . |
| 13 | After half an hour the bus started and moved us seventy metres , to the nearest plane , the one we could have walked to , with less effort and staying warmer . |
| 14 | After half an hour the gathering breaks up and the recruits escort their visitors off to lunch , or on a tour of camp for yet more photographs . |
| 15 | After half an hour the first English injury occurred , Andy Lloyd going into the record books as the possessor of the briefest of all Test careers . |
| 16 | So I let her just pass , and said , ‘ Oh , darling , I am looking for a new ‘ element ’ … ’ ; and after half an hour the manager came back to me and said that she was sitting upstairs weeping . |
| 17 | ‘ After half an hour the barrage was moving over the village . |
| 18 | He was , in fact , for the best part of half a century the closest link between English artists and their French contemporaries . |
| 19 | Within half an hour a crowd of pilgrims had gathered outside the hotel . |
| 20 | Within half an hour the wings are fully distended so that the two sides of the bag meet flat against one another enclosing the veins between them . |
| 21 | The time ranged from half an hour a day to 13 hours a day , depending on whether devolution was viewed as a separate activity concerned only with finance or whether it was seen as being curriculum driven and/or inseparable from all the activities performed by a head in a working day . |
| 22 | Baron Frankenstein stands in his laboratory quaking with anticipation ; in half an hour a lightning bolt will streak from the skies bringing life to the thing that lies on the slab . |
| 23 | In half an hour a dozen or so cars would drive into the inner courtyard and the morning shift would take over . |
| 24 | It has been observed that some people switching from using a typewriter to a personal computer can gain up to half a stone a year because they no longer have to get up to consult filing cabinets ; and the same effects can be observed when people use remote-control television , extension phones , lifts and dishwashers . |
| 25 | The Collector 's delirium still continued and he was undoubtedly becoming weaker ; because of these continuing symptoms McNab now substituted bark , chloric aether , and ammonia in effervescence for the laudanum and asked Miriam to increase the brandy to half an ounce every hour . |
| 26 | No wonder she puts on half a pound a week . |
| 27 | When it 's available I get by on half a gram a day . |
| 28 | They point to statistics which show that salt intake is ‘ far in excess of need ’ and may lead to raised blood pressure in susceptible adults , and that if everyone reduced salt intake by half a teaspoon a day , it could save 40,000 premature deaths per year . |