Example sentences of "a half [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three and a half tonnes of home made explosives were inside , needing only seconds to prime . |
| 2 | Particular emphasis has been placed on the fact that the county embraces the best part of two national parks as well as two and a half areas of outstanding natural beauty and a heritage coast . |
| 3 | In two and a half pages there were seven references to efficiency , five to value for money , four to economies and two each to savings and cost effectiveness . |
| 4 | In addition , five and a half pages of notes to the accounts give valuable extra information . |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | issued in 1604 : it happens to use the same fount of music type as the Select Songs in the Fairy Queen , and it occupies two and a half pages : it could not have been squeezed onto two . |
| 7 | We 've been humping away for a whole two and a half pages . |
| 8 | Like both sides , to do like two and a half pages . |
| 9 | Between it and the boundary of the Howardian Hills area of outstanding natural beauty at Foston Bridge , the distance is only three and a half kilometres , just over two miles , there is therefore a narrow corridor not designated either as greenbelt or A O N B , which naturally er comes under rather heavier pressure perhaps than er areas round it might . |
| 10 | ‘ Over the last year and a half prices have tumbled quite dramatically , ’ says Robert Ralphs , the product manager for videotelephony at Mercury . |
| 11 | The effect of Christian Democrat hegemony for four and a half decades has been the perpetual incumbency of a small circle of politicians . |
| 12 | The role of the Queen is vastly different from that assumed for the monarch under the Tudors ; the hereditary element in the House of Lords has plummeted in importance in the deliberations of the House over the last two and a half decades ; and the House of Commons has become , although in relatively recent times , with the extension of the franchise , a popular assembly . |
| 13 | However , we shall also discuss the changes which have occurred over these three and a half decades . |
| 14 | It will also examine changes in the reporting of rape over three and a half decades . |
| 15 | In addition to the Sadducees , Pharisees and Essenes , Judaism , in Jesus 's time , included a number of smaller , less well-known splinter-groups and sects , two of which have begun to figure increasingly in biblical scholarship during the last two and a half decades . |
| 16 | Those who had to live with the legacy of Cold War did not necessarily have a future that was any clearer or simpler than those who inherited the remains of Hitler 's Europe four and a half decades earlier . |
| 17 | The current campaign positioning for Johnnie Walker Black has remained true to itself for the last two and a half decades . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One and a half aeons is about the time that elapsed between the origin of the Earth and the first bacteria-like fossils . |
| 20 | Aye , ten and a half curtains for and she 's gon na get the net curtains Was Alex saying that young couple across the way from Thomas only moved in last week ? |
| 21 | Brazil has been boosted both by David Byrne , whose new Latin big band made such an impression here last week , and the dance hit , Lambada , by Kaoma , which sold over a million and a half copies in France and became the best-selling European single of the year . |
| 22 | The tax for a property in the highest band will be about two and a half times that for one in the lowest band . |
| 23 | On any day towards the end of the campaign , those who had been very interested in politics just before the campaign opened were one and a half times as likely to read a paper , and twice as likely to watch both BBC-TV and ITV news , as those with no interest in politics ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 24 | Their volume of production was one and a half times greater , and they were engaged chiefly in clothing , woodwork , skins , and agricultural repairs . |
| 25 | In August , 1920 , the average cost of a local authority house was £930 , about two and a half times as much as before the war . |
| 26 | The offer of shares in the group , which was listed on the USM this week , has been two and a half times oversubscribed . |
| 27 | Over the same distance , people use two and a half times more energy ( per kilogram of their bulk ) than the average camel . |
| 28 | This is not uncommon in the South East and well within the building society norm of two and a half times income . |
| 29 | And at Watercombe on 5 May the River Yealm was found to have two and a half times the permitted level of aluminium . |
| 30 | It reached staggering heights at Boston Park Square ( 1872–4 ) , Worcester , Massachusetts ( 1875–6 ) , Indianapolis Union ( 1886–9 ) , and supremely at Waterbury , Connecticut ( 1909 ) , perhaps the last example , where the campanile duplicated the height of the station building some two and a half times . |