Example sentences of "[conj] a half [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion he nearly saw the man killed : ‘ The rope , sixty-five yards long , on his being drawn up , having a knot in the middle , was arrested by a clint ( crack ) in the rock , to which , with an eaglet sixteen and a half pounds weight , tied to his back , he had no other resource than that of ascending by his hands , the space something overhanging from the nest to the crack … |
| 2 | and a cable tidy , that sounds quite good , these are half price things for ten days only There 's a remote control colour television for one thirty nine , ninety nine , save fifty pounds they 've got the dear tapes here look , erm six and a half hours video tapes , recommended price seven ninety nine can get for three ninety nine and there 's another one here three pack , twelve hours video tape for six ninety nine must end Saturday November the twenty ninth , oh perhaps I 'll buy you one of those , oh I have bought you a birthday present have n't I ? |
| 3 | The tax-free lump sum , if you choose to take it , can not be more than one and a half times salary . |
| 4 | Prior to the 1987 Budget , the only restriction that applied was that the maximum was set at one and a half times salary . |
| 5 | The amount of fabric fullness required is variable and although a minimum of twice the length of the curtain fixture is satisfactory , two and a quarter to two and a half times fullness is preferable to achieve a well-balanced , attractive pleating arrangement . |
| 6 | The pleats can be spaced out if preferred , needing approximately two and a half times fullness . |
| 7 | This is not uncommon in the South East and well within the building society norm of two and a half times income . |
| 8 | Banks which are strong in areas that typically produce long-standing relationships with customers sell at even higher multiples to book : investors pay two and a half times book value for Boston 's State Street and Chicago 's Northern Trust , for example , which specialise in trust services and asset management . |
| 9 | They reached thirteen nine , cos they 'd two and a half times amount of play . |
| 10 | Well he 'd got a , the little marker , th well about two and a half feet marker . |
| 11 | The Villain is a bit buzzy , too , often a problem with 24-fret 5-stringers due to the difficulty of getting three and a half octaves worth of notes to perform equally . |
| 12 | The race was won by Hywel Davies ' mount Gallant Effort , a two and a half lengths winner from Alton Bay . |
| 13 | For two and a half months Saragossa , a poorly fortified town , resisted a good siege train , and when the walls were gone the inhabitants fought in the streets . |
| 14 | For two and a half years Peggy Kirby has needed to use a kidney machine . |
| 15 | International banking is an interesting business anyway , but what makes it rather more interesting in this case — both to me and to the hapless Ohioans whose money I am selling — is that I am 25 years old with just one and a half years banking experience . |
| 16 | Over the next four and a half years Burton , like a young shark eating all before it , devoured the sport , the small-town adventure life , the clubs and choirs and outings available . |
| 17 | For two and a half years Camel Lairds have unsuccessfully campaigned for intervention . |
| 18 | Even more puzzling is why , throughout the five and a half years Blake was in Wormwood Scrubs , no action was taken to move him to a more secure establishment . |
| 19 | He was given two and a half years custody . |
| 20 | The Thyssen museum opened in Madrid on 9th of last month to fairly general self-congratulation in the Spanish newspapers , qualified by the hope that the paintings would remain there at the end of the nine and a half years loan/rental period ( The Art Newspaper No. 21 , Oct 1992 , pp.1 , 6 ) . |
| 21 | The confidence of those words confirmed that in two and a half years Neighbours — the show which baffled the critics as its banality won millions of fans around the world — had transformed the shy diffident Kylie into an ambitious young woman . |