Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the [num ord] half [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dragged himself from the clump of twitch-grass that had been his hiding-place for the last half hour , and shivering violently , set off on foot to the east . |
| 2 | It says a great deal for Saxon resilience that the Sussex settlements do not seem to have reverted to wholesale waste , and the pressure was greatly liked in 1017 when Cnut was elected king of England and the country passed under a Scandinavian aegis for the next half century or so . |
| 3 | Trading profits in the communications division were more than double the figure for the first half year thanks to the cost control programme . |
| 4 | The trio were so utterly absorbed in each other for the next half hour that none of them noticed Rose Williams watching them from some little distance , her face screwed into a sour smile of bitterness and longing . |
| 5 | it is this ‘ discreditation ’ of the object which has dominated art for the last half century — it all goes back to Monet ! |