Example sentences of "[art] half [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was calculated from a breath test taken then that he was nearly one and a half times over the limit for driving at the time of the accident . |
| 2 | Erm I most of the tapes that I 've had in the past have been recorded mono , erm and I 've needed a little doohickey to turn the erm output into mono as well cos it 's awfully off-putting spending seven and a half hours with the stuff coming in through one ear only . |
| 3 | Taff decided to do the first two and a half hours on the gun so I crawled to the back of the trench , curled up and immediately dropped off to sleep . |
| 4 | Three and a half hours for a three-pound piece of veal — and on top of the stove too — is an awful long time . |
| 5 | Once the section has been applied to premises the afternoon permitted hours are extended by one and a half hours for the sale and supply of liquor for the purposes specified in subs . |
| 6 | That 's five and a half hours at a bit under two knots — say ten miles in round figures . |
| 7 | The two areas did differ in the level of statutory service provision ; in Ipswich , home help input was available only two or three days a week for up to one and a half hours at a time , and a financial assessment and payment for home help had recently been introduced . |
| 8 | ( 2 ) While this section applies to any premises , the effect shall be that , for the purposes mentioned in subsection ( 3 ) below , the permitted hours in those premises in the afternoon shall be increased by the addition of one and a half hours at the end thereof . |
| 9 | After two and a half hours at the leisure centre , Joanna was taken to a police station in Hemel Hempstead . |
| 10 | So by the end of the day , I was like , look I 've come all this way , which was n't totally true , but I said , look I 've come all this way , the bloke arranged that he would meet us at this time , and he 's not here , and like , you know , I 've come two and a half hours in the car , and I 've got ta drive home again , and we were gon na have a look at the house . |
| 11 | ‘ We had never realised what hard work is actually involved in producing a programme of this kind and , with the added pressure of only five and a half hours in the city , we had our work cut out . |
| 12 | As powerless as the train , we sat for three and a half hours in the dark — key phrase , that — before a locomotive of more elderly years arrived from Newcastle to give us a croggy . |
| 13 | Geoff Dowling , race secretary and one-time competitor ( but unfortunately never winner ) , told me that five and a half hours was reasonable but the first-class walkers could be expected about four and a half hours after the start . |
| 14 | The Nikolaikirche , with 2,000 seats , was full one and a half hours before the church meeting began . |
| 15 | They had been at it for over two and a half hours before the searchlight finally picked out the slumped body in the yard of an abandoned farm at over a thousand metres on the slopes of Mount Guffone . |
| 16 | The equipment leisure officers have in mind is mainly made of wood , treated against vandalism and decay , while its lay-out means children using it will at no time be more than one and a half feet off the ground . |
| 17 | The launderette was two and a half blocks from the house ; probably less than three hundred yards . |
| 18 | It 's best to do these on the track , but if one is not available , you can do repeats of two and a half to three and a half minutes on the road . |
| 19 | Colin Mcrae is seventh … 5 and a half minutes off the front … last day tomorrow but there 's still 175 kilometres of competition to go |
| 20 | Charles 's claim to be a martyr must largely depend on what ensued in the period of two and a half years between the end of the First Civil War and his execution . |
| 21 | They were joined by John McCarthy , who spent his first days of freedom at the airbase after five and a half years as a hostage . |
| 22 | Lord Cranborne , son of the sixth Marquess of Salisbury , had sat for the family constituency of south Dorset for eight years : his grandfather , ‘ Bobbety ’ the fifth Marquess , had served eleven and a half years as an MP before joining the peerage and becoming one of the most influential party men in the fifties . |
| 23 | For example , one Lambodar Gorain has been held in Ranchi Jail since 18th June 1970 , for an offence under Section 25 of the Arms Act … with the result that he has been in prison for eight and a half years for an offence for which even if convicted , he could not have been awarded more than two years imprisonment … . |
| 24 | The beautiful chapter 9 is much more difficult from the point of view of chronological speculations , because it is a reinterpretation of Jeremiah 's " seventy years for the desolations of Jerusalem " ( 9.2 ) : but in 9.27 there seems to be a reaffirmation of the period of three and a half years for the suspension of the Temple service . |
| 25 | Last December UK sales director Billy Adair after five and a half years with the company . |
| 26 | After three and a half years with the company in Industrial Engineering , Alan MacDonald was appointed Assistant to the Production Manager at the beginning of November . |
| 27 | Capriati spent two and a half years under the tutelage . |
| 28 | In one recent case the victim of a stabbing died two and a half years after the incident , having been kept on a life-support machine for almost the entire time . |
| 29 | And there was perhaps not so much to laugh at in that ; for by North 's trial , two and a half years after the breaking of the scandal , the overwhelming majority of Americans had come to feel much the same way . |
| 30 | The last few patients , mainly elderly , have now been moved to other hospitals and today staff were sadly clearly up after a farewell party , three and a half years after the research ward opened . |