Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] half a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the Protestants ' only hope of redressing the imbalance of power created by the French lay in turning to the English , even though they well knew that protestations of Anglo-Scottish friendship and desire for union in no way wiped out the instinctive hostility between Scots and English which ran so deep that half a century later it would still cause grievous problems for the first king of Britain . |
| 2 | Well , I think Patrick stay much longer than half an hour |
| 3 | Quakers , evangelicals inside and outside the Church of England and Rational Dissenters and Unitarians all articulated a powerful abolitionist and emancipationist appeal over more than half a century . |
| 4 | You know , when I came from ’ — she thumbed towards the wall — next door , not more than half an hour ago , I was very sad inside . |
| 5 | Not more than half an hour had passed when a little grey tractor chugged into the car park . |
| 6 | A typical value might be eight bytes , leading to an index size of rather more than half a track ( the number of entries in the index depends on the number of tracks or buckets , while the size of the track depends on the device ) . |
| 7 | I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour . |
| 8 | It is said to have been the biggest women 's gathering since suffrage days , a little more than half a century before … |
| 9 | A little more than half a mile away , on the other side of the Isle of Dogs , Ebenezer 's sister Ruth was also awake . |
| 10 | Some classes gave as little as half an hour a week to science and , on average , it took only 5 per cent of the timetable . |
| 11 | Can you spare as little as half an hour each day to unwind or to commune with nature ? |
| 12 | Hill-walking in remote and wild areas can be risky if you are not prepared , because the weather can change completely in as little as half an hour , and then you can find yourself walking for hours in driving wind and rain . |
| 13 | Despite opposition to their plans from many independent experts , the commission says the angle is likely to be reduced by as much as half a degree within the two years . |
| 14 | In many of Morton 's experiments , priming effects of much longer duration were observed : there can be as much as half an hour between the primer and primed , or sometimes a day or more ( Scarborough , Cortese and Scarborough , 1977 ) . |
| 15 | All experienced knitters know that different dyes knit up at different tensions ( I certainly know this from my experiments with the ballet cardigans — there can be as much as half an inch or about five millimetres difference in measuring the forty stitches ) . |
| 16 | Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century . |
| 17 | By 1415 he showed himself willing to accept a good deal less : he would settle for the legal and territorial terms agreed at Brétigny , now more than half a century earlier , and a smaller dowry . |
| 18 | One is a no-through motor road , the other an ancient cart track ; they diverge immediately and then proceed north roughly parallel and half a mile apart . |
| 19 | Barely more than half an hour before , he 'd driven into the village on an errand for the Venetz sisters and although he saw almost no one along the way , he 'd been able to sense a tension in the air ; it was a faint background buzz like that of power lines in the rain . |
| 20 | You love him , he 's kind to animals , and is never more than half an hour late , but is that a good basis on which to plan your lives together ? |