Example sentences of "[conj] a half [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japanese , it 's a massive one , one er , it 's a thirty thousand gallon erm pond and it 's got , and it goes through a filter box and it 's four and a half tons of erm four and a half tons and that is a lot of |
| 2 | we 've still got ta do one and a half topics of these books . |
| 3 | ‘ Excellent : nine and a half pounds of chocolate and a pair of socks . ’ |
| 4 | He was a big boy , weighing nine and a half pounds at birth . |
| 5 | A retired Ministry of Defence official has gone on trial accused of accepting a million and a half pounds in bribes to award arms contracts abroad . |
| 6 | In addition , five and a half pages of notes to the accounts give valuable extra information . |
| 7 | She did not go up to London to see her lover without first drawing fifteen pounds out of her bank account , and thinking up a convincing story to tell her parents , and packing a good book to read on the train ( it was U.S.A. by John dos Passos , and she had read four and a half pages of it before she had been interrupted by her neighbour 's knee ) , and looking up her lover 's address in the A to Z. |
| 8 | ‘ I thought I 'd done well by managing to last two and a half minutes without coming up for air he said . ’ |
| 9 | Twenty and a half minutes past six is the time . |
| 10 | The time now is nine and a half minutes past seven . |
| 11 | The time now is nine and a half minutes past eight . |
| 12 | The method has been in use since 1977 and requires only two and a half minutes of therapy time , according to reports . |
| 13 | It was when he was commissioned to write seventeen and a half minutes of light music for the radio that I discovered why Jean-Claude had insisted I bring from London some of my most beautifully tailored suits and expensive dresses . |
| 14 | What I do n't want is ten minutes of waffle and one and a half minutes of pure gold . |
| 15 | And with seven and a half minutes of injury time Milton hung on to their slender lead ; final score here at Bishops Cleve was Bishops Cleve nil , Milton United one . |
| 16 | Woodmill controlled the game for much of the first half but could not get through the Meridian defence and it was n't until two and a half minutes into the second half that the deadlock was finally broken . |
| 17 | It 's best to do these on the track , but if one is not available , you can do repeats of two and a half to three and a half minutes on the road . |
| 18 | Okay we now have seven and a half minutes on affiliation other groups . |
| 19 | Colin Mcrae is seventh … 5 and a half minutes off the front … last day tomorrow but there 's still 175 kilometres of competition to go |
| 20 | Eleven and a half minutes to three o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 21 | It 's six and a half minutes to six . |
| 22 | It 's two and a half minutes to six o'clock . |
| 23 | It was just over one and a half minutes before that hour . |
| 24 | Levein , while in sardonic mood , also ventured the opinion that Robertson might get ‘ three and a half minutes against the Germans ’ . |
| 25 | North estimates , for example , that if a company has 2,000 personal computers and it takes an average of one and a half hours per year to upgrade software on each of them , then company-wide , this activity takes a total 3,000 hours . |
| 26 | The actual report is completed in one and a half hours under examination conditions . |
| 27 | We were two and a half hours over guidebook time : so much for the armchair boasts of perfect stamina ! |
| 28 | They did n't need to take two and a half hours over it . |
| 29 | After about four and a half hours of driving , Sadler calculated that they were one mile away from the target , although there was absolutely nothing to see . |
| 30 | The show is one and a half hours of entertainment for children of all ages . |