Example sentences of "and a half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most classes last for an hour or perhaps an hour and a half . |
| 2 | Were you surprised how soon you got into the RSC — and that you have now ended up after only just over a year and a half in the profession playing Juliet and Hermia ? |
| 3 | How easy , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , it would have been to write : Lo , Cadmus ' grandson enters Diana 's grove , but no , Ovid defers the verb for a line and a half , telling us — what ? |
| 4 | Many did so think , and fear ; and saw nothing in the religious experience — or that to which it pointed — of the last decade and a half to cause them to think otherwise . |
| 5 | ‘ Hardly little at six and a half , or whatever that is in metric . |
| 6 | After jointing and gluing ( be careful where you stop and start your tongues ) , two pieces can be cut off to finish at four and a half inches each . |
| 7 | The left-hand foliage pendant which once hung above the west door of the King 's Drawing Room bore the brunt of the flames and only two tiny fragments of the original 7ft drop survive ; a couple of limewood crocus heads no more than an inch and a half across . |
| 8 | The standard charge is set by the local council , and can be zero , one half , equal to , one and a half or twice the cost of the personal community charge in the area . |
| 9 | From a frightening ratio of expenditure to fares revenue of four to one , the ratio has improved to better than two and a half to one and it is stili improving . |
| 10 | All the diners eat the same feast which takes Khai Eng and Rex a day and a half to prepare . |
| 11 | In theory , a horse with a rating two points higher than his rivals is considered to be 2lb — the equivalent of a length over a mile and a half - superior . |
| 12 | In theory , a horse with a rating two points higher than his rivals is considered to be 2lb — the equivalent of a length over a mile and a half - superior . |
| 13 | The most damaging feature of the August figures , however , is that they showed no sign , after a year and a half of severe monetary tightening , that the worst was over . |
| 14 | However , after a discussion with Pat Eddery , it was felt that Ile De Nisky had not truly stayed the mile and a half , hence the revised programme . |
| 15 | If Barclays application to join the Switch network — started by Midland and Royal Bank of Scotland — is successful the electronic direct debit network will expand by at least 30,000 terminals over the next year and a half . |
| 16 | This was followed swiftly by the news that Alain Lequeux , the rider of the runner-up , Behera , had lodged an objection against the winner for interference a furlong and a half from the finish of an exceptionally rough race . |
| 17 | From the dairy yard where Friesian cows wait to be milked , fields stretch a mile and a half to a distant hill . |
| 18 | His left thigh , his jumping take-off leg , which was always an inch and a half thicker than the right , is now two and a half inches thinner . |
| 19 | He was killed about an hour and a half ago during a German counter attack on our positions . |
| 20 | Twenty pounds of butter was enough for the lease of two and a half desiatiny of land for five years.l Five pudy of linseed cake were exchanged for the approaching harvest of a desiatin of wheat . |
| 21 | Suitably inspired by such a religious and historic atmosphere we rambled down the lane for a mile and a half towards Whitesand . |
| 22 | For the next year and a half , the attainment of the monetarist objectives proved exceptionally difficult . |
| 23 | After only eighteen months breathing the dust of the docks , Ramsey taught for six years and a half in a greenhouse . |
| 24 | Since there was little or no lending to the Government during the year 1967/68 , it follows that that billion and a half of expenditure was financed from one of two sources . |
| 25 | Arguments were fierce : some said six , some six and a half , some seven . |
| 26 | He fished bloodworm and a three metre whip from a peg near the greenhousees and after a blank first hour and a half eventually caught around 100 fish . |
| 27 | And so Derek Dooley went to Sheffield Wednesday at seventeen and a half , his local team , until a clash with an advancing goalkeeper forced the immediate amputation of his leg in February 1953 . |
| 28 | The sortie has taken something over four hours to complete , for a little over an hour and a half in the air . |
| 29 | Back at the Military Port in Marchwood , the working day for the remainder of the regiment would not start for another hour and a half . |
| 30 | The baskets measure an ample 15 inches by 13 inches , and 10 inches to the top of the handle , and are hand-made in Somerset by P H Coate and Son who have been at it for a century and a half . |