Example sentences of "it was half " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was half a mile to the chip shop , so you had to get a head start . |
| 2 | When I went to junior school it was half and half , white and Black kids ; the Black guys were really revered , and lots of the white boys would try to act Black , because they associated it with being hard or cool . |
| 3 | It was easy to imagine how the tiny volume might have been overlooked , more difficult to conceive that it was half a millennium old . |
| 4 | It was half the size of the one he had just left , he noticed , unusually observant . |
| 5 | It was half an inch out at the very least . |
| 6 | It was half a tumbler of whisky . |
| 7 | It must surely be easier now than it was half a century ago , thanks to the greater contact the public have with sportsmen generally . |
| 8 | It was half past one before they got back to Rose Cottage and there was no denying a brisk long country walk built up the appetite . |
| 9 | ‘ Thank you , darling , ’ she said and punched me vigorously on the arm to tell me to get lost , though it was half a joke , it 's always half a joke with Dodger . |
| 10 | It was half way through , and she could not understand a word of the dialogue and was surprised and rather indignant that she could not understand , for she had genuinely looked forward , with half of herself , to seeing a picture : as it was , she found herself obliged to concentrate on the other aspects of the affair . |
| 11 | It was half a mile to the bottom of the cliff . |
| 12 | In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk . |
| 13 | I thought you were supposed to enjoy it , and it was half and half really . |
| 14 | And then I woke up again , and I come upstairs to look at the clock and it was half past three . |
| 15 | It was half an hour past noon , when the corner hotel was quiet ; an hour when Marie-Angèle could let her slip into the bathroom with her pass key without telling Madame , who would otherwise charge her four hundred francs ( anciens ) for the tubful of hot water . |
| 16 | It was half a year , he thought , since she had last broached the subject of his bachelor status . |
| 17 | It was half a mile from the nearest village , which had become a haven for retired and commuting stockbrokers since the war . |
| 18 | The chef mashed a lump of raw gristle on his stove , and kept it down until it was half charcoal . |
| 19 | No i er I do n't know people did n't go out of their depth I do n't think , they , it was half a crown or five bob and , and they used to pay , maybe pay it back in bits and bobs . |
| 20 | We must always be aware of the ability of people to change the environment , either deliberately or by accident , and of the likelihood that the appearance of the landscape today may not be the same as it was half a millennium ago , when different land uses may have been appropriate . |
| 21 | I saw him when we got picked up off the I mean it was half a lifeboat we were left sitting on . |
| 22 | It was half a mile before he accelerated level with the Montego in front . |
| 23 | We first of all we used to give the food parcel every fortnight because it was half one week and half the next and now it 's a food parcel every week so they they 're guaranteed that basic sustenance you know and erm and we 'll keep up the up th up the fund raising and the money 's certainly still pouring in . |
| 24 | It was half a year before she saw him again . |
| 25 | Well it was half |
| 26 | Actually th from the original structure , I mean , it 's , it 's , it was half that size anyway . |
| 27 | I did n't realize it was half term this week . |
| 28 | Yeah I 'm going to getting the stamps off these en envelopes cos I have to put all these in a hurry in the end , also got loads of time , then I realised it was half past ten , no wonder I did n't get anything at home forgotten where we keep them |
| 29 | He was late yesterday , got a brand new vehicle and , yet I mean if , if was getting here at one and yesterday he got to ours at half past eleven , so erm , it was half past eleven that 's right , it was dead on , so erm , erm whatever 's he going to be like when it gets near to Christmas ? |
| 30 | It was half past seven this morning . |