Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] half a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five of those released on Christmas Eve 1772 had been gaoled for each owing 12s 8d , and were given half a crown ( 2s 6d ) on discharge . |
| 2 | Bondagers were paid half a man 's rate for the same work . |
| 3 | Bondagers were paid half a man 's rate for the same work . |
| 4 | The explosion was heard half a mile away . |
| 5 | Many of think he would do it if he was given half a chance . |
| 6 | And Andy was given half a day 's notice . |
| 7 | Verdun was to lose half a foot in the pits and use the £300 compensation to buy an upright piano ( although he could not play it ) . |
| 8 | Police are connecting the rape with an incident 90 minutes earlier when a 25-year-old woman was attacked half a mile away at Burway on the edge of Ludlow . |
| 9 | But then the M-forty was built half a mile from their door . |
| 10 | It was a prediction that was to take half a century to be fulfilled — with Leeds United . |
| 11 | He was beaten half a length in probably the most controversial big Flat race run in England in the 1980s . |