Example sentences of "[pron] was [num] [conj] a half " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was eighteen and a half I was let out , but I think I got institutionalised being there three and a half years , and I wanted to stay there . |
| 2 | ( I was four and a half years on the Western Front as a stretcher bearer ) and only one of the worst cases who had it and lived through it . |
| 3 | I was four and a half years old and I was about to start Bedfield Primary School . |
| 4 | And then I was four and a half year in Sanday . |
| 5 | I did a dreadful thing , the worst thing of my life , when I was twelve and a half years old , or I feel that I did , and nothing can change it … ’ |
| 6 | I was six and a half years the , the minister of Whalsay and Skerries where the first er centre h ha has been built and there was rejoicing in that community that the that social responsibility had been invited by the council to join in this work . |
| 7 | My parents kept a baby book about me until I was sixteen , and when I was three and a half they wrote : ‘ Takes a great interest in her clothes and chooses her own outfit each morning . |
| 8 | I carried Emily — she was one and a half years old then . |
| 9 | A MUM today hugged the new-born baby she feared might might have been injured in a hit and run car crash when she was eight and a half months pregnant . |
| 10 | She stared at it now , hardly able to believe that it was two and a half years since it had been taken . |
| 11 | It was two and a half years since I had seen them and it gave me a lot of hope just to know that they were still in good shape , although they both looked much older . |
| 12 | It was two and a half years since she 'd seen her godchildren , Emma and Sophie , who 'd last been in England with their parents on a Christmas visit , staying with Sir David and Lady Wyndham . |
| 13 | but I , I disagree with them lending money to the extent , the old way was better when it was two and a half times the salary , your salary |
| 14 | It was one and a half hours later before they reached him , caught up in all the plants , still shouting ‘ What have I done ? |
| 15 | Do you know how much it was when we got our first house , just before we were married , it was n't two and a half times your salary , it was one and a half times our salary |
| 16 | The ship left there shortly after midnight but it was six and a half hours before the seamen were discovered missing . |
| 17 | Well w we just er opened it s I think it was three and a half days a week . |
| 18 | Though he was fortunate to secure the friendship of the ruthless Ras Mikael of Tigre , who at that time dominated Abyssinia , it was three and a half years before he could leave the country . |
| 19 | But when I started it was fifty-two and a half hours a week yes . |
| 20 | And er the half hour was er erm we had nine and a half five days , that was er from eight till half past five I do n't know but it was fifty-two and a half hours , from eight till half-past twelve on a Saturday and er |
| 21 | Only he was six and a half feet in his socks , apparently , which tops me by an inch or two . ’ |