Example sentences of "and a half days " in BNC.
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1 | Since the length of the lunar month is about twenty-nine and a half days and a calendar month can not contain a fractional part of a day , it was arranged that the calendar months were alternately of twenty-nine and thirty days . |
2 | Lord Silsoe , QC , opening up the CEGB campaign and taking two and a half days to do it ( there 's nothing like Latin for spinning words out ) , said that the board 's case had three main points . |
3 | But give us a good meal first , wo n't you — I have n't had good home-cooking for … for two and a half days . |
4 | Cruising at 150–185 mph , he expects the circumnavigation to take five and a half days . |
5 | In rural Third World communities the average transit time is one and a half days ; in Western countries it is about three days in young healthy adults ; among the elderly it is often over two weeks . |
6 | The course follows the American precedent , with two and a half days each week allocated to in-house tuition , augmented by home study , and governed by an acronym which becomes fixed in the minds of all students : DPR , or , Daily Practise Routines . |
7 | Two and a half days of hard crowbar work revealed what looked like half an acre of tongue and groove floorboarding , supported on hefty joists . |
8 | ‘ There are five of us now and we open five and a half days a week to deal with debt problems , ’ she said . |
9 | The Grand Pilier d'Angle route took two and a half days and weighed in at 6c and A4 . |
10 | Climbing in a pure alpine style , without additional support , they spent six days climbing the Kishofer route on the Diamir face , and a further two and a half days to descend . |
11 | Filming just the ELR train scenes took two and a half days , one shooting finishing at 04.00 hours , and all for about six minutes of the 90 minute drama Angels , which was a pilot for a possible TV series . |
12 | Few would deny the convenience for shoppers of large numbers of local stores with long opening hours on six and a half days each week , but there is no doubt that consumers pay for the convenience . |
13 | It took him two and a half days to reach Edinburgh . |
14 | But it was coming up to thirty nineish and the war breaking out so the one and a half days a week started to change to five days , which gave you a w a regular wages of about thirty shillings . |
15 | Well w we just er opened it s I think it was three and a half days a week . |
16 | It took one and a half days to the confluence with the Tisza with mosquitos , heat , sometimes unbearable , and camping wild on sandbanks . |
17 | I took maternity leave in October 1986 and came back to work part-time in July 1987 working two and a half days each week . |
18 | This will take the form of Preliminary Training ; a core part in the new Module 20 which has been expanded to last one and a half days followed by a written assessment with a pass mark of 75% ; and Specialist Training — both on and off the job which has been tailored to be appropriate to the area that the prospective RPS will be working in . |
19 | The senior management team spent one and a half days in Cheddar , Somerset , on a variety of teamworking tasks , one of which included mapping an underground cavern . |
20 | The testing at Buenos Aires-1 took two and a half days , Jeff App says , and the calculated formation damage ( skin values ) for the well 's producing layers were approximately 50 for the lower and 13 for the upper layer . |
21 | Everyone was in a good mood because not only was it the last day of school today , but everybody had had one and a half days off school already . |
22 | I could get used to two and a half days at school a week instead of five ! |
23 | Sir , i having listened to the discussion nearly two two days , two and a half days , it seems to me that I come very firmly with the conclusion that the A f A fifty nine , the A nineteen north and B one three six corridors are simply not practical . |
24 | Er , what we can do If the figures are worth eleven and a half days erm seventeen , seventeen days . |
25 | It takes er one and a half days to do the base and er eight , eight days and eight Mondays to er to do the walls but two hundred and four , four days in total ca n't stop the concrete . |
26 | When the judge called the jury back this afternoon they 'd been considering their verdict for one and a half days . |
27 | It took about two and a half days to read it all . |
28 | My Lord , erm those are , those are my submissions my Lord , I was going to say something about my learned friends somewhat unusual request to your Lordship to make disparaging comments in judgment about the defendants case , my learned friend wishes to make disparaging comments we save a proper place for those in his submissions when he comes to apply to strike out , or say anything about that , erm , my Lord erm perhaps erm as a , as a final point , erm Mr Bernard after having reviewed a piano recital once wrote , the only thing he enjoyed more than this directive performance was having his teeth pulled , I think your Lordship has not found that the last five and a half days are equally an under defended experience in relation to , to this mornings sir activity |
29 | The new row follows uproar over Janet Sainsbury 's appointment at £11,720 a year for two and a half days a week , as chairman of South Glamorgan Family Health Authority . |
30 | when it got to the stage that we only open like , one and a half days a week |