Example sentences of "[prep] half a [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cause at issue right now was the planning application for half a dozen houses in the orchard attached to a cottage in the centre of the village , the property of a local farmer . |
| 2 | For a little more many include fish treats such as half a dozen oysters in season ; waterzooi , fish cooked in a light stock and served with leeks and carrots ; a fillet of turbot or chunks of eel in a green herb sauce . |
| 3 | I hesitate , but against half a dozen girls in a tiny lavatory there is no contest . |
| 4 | Geoffrey Beattie hears of businessmen roaming the streets with half a million pounds in carrier bags and learns the difference between a mobster and a muppet . |
| 5 | It might have been the stories about businessmen roaming the streets with half a million pounds in carrier bags . |
| 6 | Our mission was to take back from the Boche those few miles of battered ground that we 'd bought with half a million lives in those Battles of the Somme , two years before . |
| 7 | Despite the fact that Moscow had severed relations with the dictator Batista in 1952 , the USSR had made somewhat erratic purchases of Cuban sugar throughout the 1950s , which amounted to half a million tons in the peak year , 1955 . |
| 8 | There had been considerable controversy over the method of presidential election , which had originally been expected to take place with up to half a dozen candidates in January 1990 prior to the legislative elections of March-April [ see pp. 37325-26 ; 37380 ) . |
| 9 | You restrict yourself to half a dozen goals in each case . |
| 10 | Trading in sovereign loans grew from almost nothing to half a trillion dollars in less than five years . |
| 11 | Egged on by her colleagues , she pitched Sir Willie on half a million shares in OTC traded Crane Holdings , at 28p . |
| 12 | Like the Exhilarator and he owns leases on half a dozen pubs in the new dockland , and he does a bit of importing — high value stuff like furs or cars . |
| 13 | This explains very clearly why Matilda is far and away the most popular children 's book I have written and was bought by over half a million children in Britain alone in the first six months . |
| 14 | Edmonton , Alberta-based Telus Corp has entered a partnership with CUC Broadcasting Ltd to develop UK cable television and telephone operations at half a dozen franchises in the London area : Telus says that it plans to invest about $100m in the effort in the next five years . |