Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] half a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After entering the wood keep straight on for half a mile . |
| 2 | ‘ You just keep on for half a mile or so and 't is up on your left . |
| 3 | Although one character does get to chunter on for half a page about how the real point of fund-raising is its feelgood side effects ( get-away ! ) , there is really no satirical content here at all : the real point of the book is that it features loads and loads of cartoon rumpy-pumpy : randy housewives and naughty underwear , haystacks and giant inflatable condoms , improbable sexual positions and unlikely transvestites . |
| 4 | Roughly how many more steps does the boy have to take if they walk together for half a kilometre ? |
| 5 | Mind you , we 'll go buy some and your Corrinne 'll be down with half a bag or summat daft like that ! |
| 6 | Margaret , a 58-year-old housewife , was admitted deeply unconscious to a general hospital after having taken a very large overdose of a mixture of tranquillizers , antidepressants , and paracetamol , together with half a bottle of vodka . |
| 7 | Plan to take your team away for half a day or a day . |
| 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 | The optical images are thus of half a planet . |
| 10 | If you are a fish who basically lives and breathes in water , but who occasionally ventures on land , perhaps to cross from one mud puddle to another thereby surviving a drought , you might benefit not just from half a lung but from one-hundredth of a lung . |
| 11 | ‘ If you look at my map , ’ he said with a tinge of pride , ‘ you will see that all the incidents are still within half a mile of the Bab es Zuweyla . |
| 12 | Half the Highlanders ran away at Culloden without striking a blow ; and as for ‘ man to man ’ — if you did n't keep your bliddy head down in the trenches , you got it blown off in half a second . ’ |
| 13 | This blueprint challenged the assumptions of Keynesian theory that had provided the basis of economic policy in the United States for close to half a century . |
| 14 | After about ten minutes — several riderless horses had skipped over the line by now , and another contender had cleared the last jump , and was gaining — Bumboy was finally scourged out of a series of circles and flopped over the line , home by half a length . |
| 15 | Well anyway , I I 'll definitely go up for half a day a week you know . |
| 16 | If the software writers arranged that the start of the track has to be detected before the search begins , this becomes a full revolution ; this is made up of half a track to locate the start , and half a track for the search . |
| 17 | He went downstairs to the rumpus room and rummaged behind the tiny bar , and , after digging through a seemingly endless collection of empty pop bottles , came up with half a bottle of rye and some ginger ale . |
| 18 | Aideen Rodgers , the baby of the Irish team , provided the first point while Irish champion Eavan Higgins came up with half a point , finishing all square with Scottish No 1 Catriona Lambert in the top match and Eileen-Rose Power finished birdie , birdie par to win her match by one hole . |
| 19 | In fact when the cleaning lady has an ‘ audit ’ of his desk and tidies up the heaps , it is a ‘ nightmare ’ , taking him up to half a day to get back on track . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Section 222 of the TCGA 1992 , provides that gains accruing on the disposal of , or an interest in , a dwelling house which is or has been an individual 's only or main residence ( together with garden or grounds of up to half a hectare in extent or other extent appropriate for the reasonable enjoyment of the residence according to the size and character of the dwelling house ) throughout the period of ownership ( but disregarding the last 36 months of that period ( TCGA 1992 , s223 ) are exempt from capital gains tax . |
| 22 | It contained , as well as the magnificent borders , twenty-five small miniatures , often up to half a page in height , and eleven full-page miniatures . |
| 23 | Each man , John was to learn , would cut out up to half a ton of slate and load it onto a sledge which he would drag out of the open shaft and along a perilous track slotted narrowly into the fellside . |
| 24 | It is an unfortunate legacy of 200 years of pedagogical grammatical preoccupation backed up by half a century of theoretical linguistic preoccupation . |
| 25 | Sometimes the driver comes and takes one group out for half a day , then he 'll take another group out for half a day , or he 'll take them out for a full day 's picnic . |
| 26 | Sometimes the driver comes and takes one group out for half a day , then he 'll take another group out for half a day , or he 'll take them out for a full day 's picnic . |
| 27 | We ran flat out for half a mile before we could throw them off . ’ |
| 28 | For upwards of half a century , the world economy was a misnomer . |
| 29 | The bland self-satisfaction of the shipowners and their refusal to accept the need for reforms of any kind had been familiar enough to Samuel Plimsoll and other friends of the merchant seamen and exposed in the House of Commons for upwards of half a century . |
| 30 | ONE of the more abiding human mysteries is why the English — a proverbially tight-lipped and stiff-necked race — should have excelled in the louche world of the theatre for upwards of half a millennium . |