Example sentences of "a half [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contribution erm made by each of these products after we 've used an average sales price erm is seven and a half pence roughly for the smallest size , erm about eighteen pence average for the one litre size and eleven twelve percent twelve pence sorry for the large size . |
| 2 | Gone down four four and a half pence a gallon . |
| 3 | Do you know the share he bought for ten p each last week went down to three and a half pence each . |
| 4 | Esso and Shell are putting four and a half pence on a gallon of petrol from Monday . |
| 5 | General Yakov Jilinski , then in overall command of the Northwest Front Group , on 17 August directed the First Army , under General Pavel Rennenkampf , comprising six and a half infantry divisions and five cavalry divisions , north toward the fortified area around Königsberg . |
| 6 | Food imported for a million and a half people . |
| 7 | But while the battle goes on , the aid does not get through , and in Central Bosnia , a million and a half people depend upon it . |
| 8 | Well it 's equivalent to an another two and a half people . |
| 9 | erm it employs a million and a half people in full time jobs , or full time equivalents . |
| 10 | I never caught one in those days of the sixties and seventies myself , though pound to nearly a pound and a half fish graced my net often enough . |
| 11 | Lee , 32 , from Waltham Abbey , Essex , was getting ready to pack up after a biteless morning when his self-cocking float carrying a half mackerel slid away . |
| 12 | Doug 's machine has four and a half meg free . |
| 13 | And so if we look at what was happening to income at that time , we find that the disposable income , meaning the amount of money we have to spend on other things after we 've bought essentials , that figure rose by only one and a half percent throughout this period . |
| 14 | Erm in year one growth is expected to be within a targeted range up to two and a half percent . |
| 15 | The advertising 's actually larger than other products are currently spent on their advertising but w we feel that with the launch of a new product and trying to catch eight and a half percent of the mar market over erm three years that we do need to spend heavily in the department so like I say that 's forty percent . |
| 16 | And the market the market size really for in year one is two and a half percent which is fourteen and a half million litres of water . |
| 17 | Year three eight and a half percent of the market which is forty nine point three million litres of w water . |
| 18 | Our advertising budget two and a half percent of the market the first year . |
| 19 | And the third year eight perc eight and a half percent of the market we should in fact of two million two er thirty hundred and thirty four erm thousand pounds . |
| 20 | This is what happens with tax exempt sources and by looking at a TESSA and assuming you pay the maximum each year which are those figures and assuming that the interest rate stays at seven and a half percent , it wo n't but it 's seven and a half percent at the moment , then this is what happens , at the end of the first year you 've put in your three thousand your interest at seven and a half percent is two twenty five and you would otherwise pay tax at fifty six at twenty five percent or twenty or forty which would be those figures , but you do n't . |
| 21 | This is what happens with tax exempt sources and by looking at a TESSA and assuming you pay the maximum each year which are those figures and assuming that the interest rate stays at seven and a half percent , it wo n't but it 's seven and a half percent at the moment , then this is what happens , at the end of the first year you 've put in your three thousand your interest at seven and a half percent is two twenty five and you would otherwise pay tax at fifty six at twenty five percent or twenty or forty which would be those figures , but you do n't . |
| 22 | This is what happens with tax exempt sources and by looking at a TESSA and assuming you pay the maximum each year which are those figures and assuming that the interest rate stays at seven and a half percent , it wo n't but it 's seven and a half percent at the moment , then this is what happens , at the end of the first year you 've put in your three thousand your interest at seven and a half percent is two twenty five and you would otherwise pay tax at fifty six at twenty five percent or twenty or forty which would be those figures , but you do n't . |
| 23 | So that at the end of the five years , assuming you 've paid the maximum stake at seven and a half percent , you would , otherwise you would receive the nine thousand back of course , and at that rate you would receive two six seven one and that will include , if you 're a twenty five percent payer , six hundred and sixty seven that you would have otherwise lost in , that would have gone out in tax . |
| 24 | Er so er let's say that the ten percent rate applies , er mind you ten percent is a long way from where we are now , but it makes the figures easy to look at , so er let's say that he 's getting ten percent gross on his return on a building society , he 'd actually get seven and a half percent net , er so on his ten thousand he 's going to earn seven fifty . |
| 25 | Erm the problem is that people who were in this account two years ago were earning thirteen and a half percent , well say eighteen months ago . |
| 26 | you 've got erm three , three and a half percent say per annum , er plus erm a superbonus which is perhaps five percent of additional bonuses , so it looks better but it is n't really . |
| 27 | So even at ten and a half percent rejection , if you look at the latest figures , it costs you thirty pounds a month for an Eagle Star low-cost super super-duper endowment , but at the end you 're only going to replace your money , if you 've got erm the ten and a half growth rate , ten and a half percent , which is unlikely i in current circumstances . |
| 28 | So even at ten and a half percent rejection , if you look at the latest figures , it costs you thirty pounds a month for an Eagle Star low-cost super super-duper endowment , but at the end you 're only going to replace your money , if you 've got erm the ten and a half growth rate , ten and a half percent , which is unlikely i in current circumstances . |
| 29 | And L A P R is half of the current tax rate , so you 'll be earning twelve and a half percent on your , has anyo any pre-eighty four contracts ? |
| 30 | But basically as far as you are concerned you can get that sort of dividend yield , which is brilliant because i y as a tax-payer if you can te ten percent erm the , the fund is written as a unit trust and you 'd be paying seven you 'd be paid seven and a half percent on that one , so which one would you choose ? |