Example sentences of "and a half " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO AND A HALF years ago I was diagnosed as being HIV positive . |
| 2 | This grew from three to three and a half million by 1981 and was created by a combination of net immigration , earlier and more frequent marriage , and the maintenance of relatively high levels of childbirth . |
| 3 | Four and a half years , he wrote . |
| 4 | I was there for about three and a half years . |
| 5 | I had been employed at Jersey House for about two and a half years when I was approached to see if I might like to do a little cleaning work to earn some overtime . |
| 6 | He goes on to argue that the bourgeoisie have always used sections from within the ‘ dangerous classes ’ to control those who are overtly troublesome , perhaps following the maxim that ‘ it takes a thief to catch a thief ’ , when he argues : ‘ for one and a half centuries the bourgeoisie offered the following choices : you can go to prison or join the Army ; you can go to prison or go to the colonies ; you can go to prison or you can join the police ’ ( ibid. 23 ) . |
| 7 | All accounted for and two and a half hours to spare . |
| 8 | Duration of meaningful contact , two and a half minutes , fifteen minutes . |
| 9 | Capriati spent two and a half years under the tutelage . |
| 10 | The tax for a property in the highest band will be about two and a half times that for one in the lowest band . |
| 11 | At one stage the average time of the five daytime trains between Euston and Glasgow was over five and a half hours . |
| 12 | The Siberian crane stands four and a half feet tall , its brilliant white plumage offset by a blood-red beak , face and legs . |
| 13 | Two days later , the battered and bloodstained body of Marie Wilks , 22 and seven and a half months pregnant , was found dumped down an embankment two miles along the motorway . |
| 14 | He told Labour delegates , ‘ Over the next 10 years the water authorities are looking to pay out about five and a half billion pounds in dividends alone . |
| 15 | An exhibition including the Irises and six other Impressionist works has travelled round the capital cities of Austrlia over the past two and a half months , ending in Perth . |
| 16 | And if the form book is to be believed , Nashwan is clearly No. 1 because Ile De Nisky finished seven and a half lengths behind him at Epsom , but got a length nearer to Old Vic at The Curragh . |
| 17 | Racing and Ireland go together — it is said there are as many horses as people ( three and a half million ) — and racecourse crowds are extremely knowledgeable about the sport . |
| 18 | According to Commission sources , the US negotiators have recently offered the EC 7 per cent of the market in a new agreement to run for two and a half years . |
| 19 | Bernard Lavery is the doyen of the home-grown British giant vegetable world , and he organised yesterday 's event at Alton Towers , the Midlands pleasure park which attracts two and a half million visitors a year . |
| 20 | He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust . |
| 21 | Its own scheme was implemented three and a half years ago , and now 85 per cent of its 250,000 borrowers pay this way . |
| 22 | P&O European Ferries ( 0304 203388 ) has five sailings a day in each direction from Dover to Zeebrugge : crossing time four and a half hours . |
| 23 | P&O has two sailings a day from Felixstowe to Zeebrugge , crossing time five and a half hours . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In a long match like this it is really difficult to play your best for three and a half hours . ’ |
| 26 | EVEN WITH half a dozen arias omitted , the Opera North production of Mozart 's La Finta Giardiniera makes a long evening , three and a half hours including interval . |
| 27 | The executions began at midnight on Saturday and were completed six and a half hours later . |
| 28 | It was there in 1903 that quarrymen went on strike for three and a half years , surviving on subsistence farming . |
| 29 | The Nikolaikirche , with 2,000 seats , was full one and a half hours before the church meeting began . |
| 30 | Today no-one — with the possible exception of members of his family - seriously believes that Wallenberg is still alive somewhere in what is left of the Gulag Archipelago , four and a half years into perestroika . |