Example sentences of "[coord] half [art] hour " in BNC.
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1 | A brisk walk , say 20 minutes or half an hour , 3 times a week will do wonders for your circulation . |
2 | This may be every two hours , or half an hour after each meal . |
3 | It says it could be thirty minutes or half an hour on that one . |
4 | Or half an hour till half past ten |
5 | Most unrest at the plant takes the form of lightning stoppages of between 10 minutes and half an hour , often health and safety issues are cited as the cause or disciplinary matters . |
6 | To show enthusiasm for a glance with them through the pages of old photograph albums , can often give immense pleasure ; and half an hour spent like this can mean more to them than a whole evening of television , for they are warmed by memories of happier days . |
7 | I was still angry , but there was no point in pursuing what was over , so I went back topsides to trim the ship , and five minutes later I saw the stateroom lights go out , and half an hour after that the lights in Ellen and Robin-Anne 's cabin were doused , leaving only a light in the forward starboard cabin to show that either Rickie or Jackson Chatterton was still awake . |
8 | But for all his misgivings , here he is with one of the most desirable women in France eating truffle shavings and half an hour ago they were lying on a bed together . |
9 | Clocksin and Moore , who performed this experiment , found that the robot could indeed learn its way around its workspace in a fairly short time ( between a quarter and half an hour ) . |
10 | However , it was not for me to tell him how to treat his advisers , and half an hour later three civil servants arrived with their notebooks whereupon I dictated my suggestions to them . |
11 | They worked from eight in the morning , till nearly eight at night , with just an hour 's dinner , and half an hour 's tea . |
12 | At 4 am the klaxon for reveille sounded , and half an hour later the breakfast gong . |
13 | After a change of costume and half an hour in the makeup chair at The Gilded Cage , she was no longer Jessica . |
14 | The idea was not taken up , and half an hour later Richard signed the bill and they left the Relais together . |
15 | Er maybe half and hour history and half an hour geography and er science er but it were all ele very elementary stuff . |
16 | She preferred the additional wearisome walk , half an hour up and half an hour back down on the other side , to bothering one of these absorbed people . |
17 | A quick glance through the window showed his car still parked outside , but by the time she had showered and breakfasted she saw that a mechanic was at work on it , and half an hour later her doorbell rang . |
18 | They sold exotic everything and half an hour was enough notice to put an impressive meal together . |
19 | I can go away from a conversation and half an hour later I think I should have said that |
20 | Racing commences at 11am on Friday and half an hour earlier on the Saturday . |
21 | THE two go hand in hand half an hour in the gym and half an hour on the sunbed . |
22 | His call was traced and half an hour later police rescued him from his traumatic experience . |
23 | They did n't bleeding look it , the Well you can have half an hour in the morning and half an hour at night , that 's an hour . |
24 | erm , Jay 's sister , Tamsin it 's her twenty first on Monday , so he was , like , write out her birthday card , right , and he was like , trying to write something funny , so he was constructing this thing , like reading it out to me , and half an hour when I first got there . |
25 | She could scream blue murder , but half an hour later would be the life of a dinner party , for she was very vain and never missed a chance to show herself off . |
26 | I felt very lonely , but half an hour later I heard his voice calling to me through the window . |
27 | But half an hour later he again addressed the Conference on European Security and said his speech had been a spoof . |
28 | It is as stiff as many a leather boot , yet required but half an hour 's breaking in . |
29 | ‘ Onstage , ’ Fred reflects , ‘ he 's this outrageous lunatic camp person , but half an hour after the gig he 's back at the hotel reading Somerset Maugham and Rob and I are being disgusting to some barmaid completely off our head . ’ |
30 | Like his tennis , his movie-making seems to lack instinct , but half an hour in the locker room and lunch on the terrace tells you everything you need to know about the constraints under which he operates . |