Example sentences of "[adv prt] for half [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Although one character does get to chunter on for half a page about how the real point of fund-raising is its feelgood side effects ( get-away ! ) , there is really no satirical content here at all : the real point of the book is that it features loads and loads of cartoon rumpy-pumpy : randy housewives and naughty underwear , haystacks and giant inflatable condoms , improbable sexual positions and unlikely transvestites .
2 The thing went on for half an hour at least .
3 Olwen has hers on for half an hour of a morning , Joe puts it on at half eight and dead on nine o'clock that immersion 's turned off .
4 Gentlemen , it occurs to us that you 're going , we 're going to be waffling on for half an hour plus , in a sense .
5 When you have been up for half an hour on a normal working day , how do you feel ?
6 They used to say , well I try and get my er my legs up for half an hour in the afternoon , but that 'd be about as much as th they 'd get in the way of rest .
7 So anyway off we goes course when we come back for half an hour at ten o'clock well out of the other machine were n't it ?
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