Example sentences of "[art] [adj] half [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first the first half a year that I was Holland I I do n't think I was away for a holiday , but then the the next Summer then I was away . |
| 2 | Aston Villa , with eight wins from their previous nine League matches , managed to nudge Liverpool 's writing arm in the first half every time a cogent word or telling flourish was about to be penned . |
| 3 | That you were saying your lecturer explained about one- one session in the first half an hour ? |
| 4 | In the other half the disease either remained the same , improved , or disappeared . |
| 5 | He reached for his handkerchief and dabbed his forehead again — a cold , clammy sweat that only seemed to have surfaced in the last half an hour . |
| 6 | That is why I had to spend the last half an hour intervening and telephoning both Departments to try to deal with the problem . |
| 7 | Er well Madam Deputy Speaker I think erm that the last half an hour shown that er the quality of debate in this house er remains extremely high and that even when you have an issue which on the face of it looks to be as dry as dust er that er there are some honourable members who will pick an argument er when perhaps er on the face of it there ought not to be much of an argument er I ca n't erm I ca n't say that erm I agreed with much of what erm the honourable member for Great Grimsby said er he seemed to imply er quite early on his er speech that most of the City of London er was collapsing in a sea of sleaze and er er other other goings on which are extremely er to be regretted but erm I think we ought to er remind him er that erm , you know , all all of these four orders er followed the Bingham inquiry into er what happened at B C C I which was not a British bank , was an international bank based erm overseas and I think I 'm right in saying this and I 'm sure my honourable friend the minister will confirm when he winds up er this is the first er such difficulty er that we 've experienced for a great length of time . |
| 8 | Within the last half an hour , police have confirmed that a body has been found in a car dragged from the river . |
| 9 | Oh do n't it 's only been on for about er , the last half an hour it 's not it 's a cross a crucifix is got bigger on it . |
| 10 | For the next half an hour or so I felt very panicky and unready to have this baby . |
| 11 | For the next half an hour she was very busy . |
| 12 | Well , she thought , replacing the receiver , unless her ‘ friend ’ showed up within the next half an hour she would come to find an empty room . |
| 13 | I wondered whether there was anything in the teaching of Tai-Fing that could get me through the next half an hour . |
| 14 | I think it ought to be made clear that the the voices that you can hear , or will be hearing in the next half an hour or so will be that of the television . |
| 15 | Prost lost the championship by an even smaller margin the following year when Niki Lauda , his new team-mate at McLaren , pipped him by a mere half a point despite the Frenchman winning seven rounds . |
| 16 | The dieter in our example therefore wants to think in terms of an average loss of a mere half a pound ( a quarter of a kilogram ) each week . |
| 17 | Well if she has a good half an hour |
| 18 | about half an hour , a good half an hour sort of waste every morning , every afternoon . |
| 19 | He waited for a full half an hour by his watch before he opened it . |
| 20 | If processing time is negligible there will be an additional half a revolution to return to the next prime track record , and the total time to locate and process the overflow record will be precisely one revolution . |
| 21 | It now houses nearly three million volumes and each year an additional half a mile of shelving is needed . |
| 22 | ‘ I often advise women that an extra half a stone will benefit their hair , ’ says Glenn . |
| 23 | But because I was in like really really tight tights , er like and then a pair of ski pants over the top er , my whole leg was like , you know , sort of soaked in and this bloke was there going , hee , that 's pretty impressive and I was like , I 'm not going to let him know I was crying and like got up and went to the top of the slope and I carried on skiing for about an extra half an hour , but like when I got home , and I just took off , my whole leg started , feet swelling as I took the like , the tight like leggings off . |
| 24 | Priced at £8,700 , the company claims it is an incredible half the cost of an equivalent Sun box which retails at £16,300 . |
| 25 | It costs £8,700 , which the company claims is an incredible half the cost of an equivalent Sun box , which retails at £16,300 . |