Example sentences of "a half [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the maximum extraction of grape juice or must was also set at one litre of juice per one and a half kilograms of grapes , this production limit could also be expressed as 7,500 kilograms per hectare . |
| 2 | " Give him three ounces of this immediately in a pint of water , then follow it with one and a half ounces night and morning and let us know if he is n't a lot better in two days . " |
| 3 | Weights then dropped and a mere one and a half ounces separated the next three anglers as Middlesbrough Newman Scott 's Alan Webb edged into runner-up position landing a mainly skimmer bream net of 3.3.8 to feeder and maggot off the grassy bank . |
| 4 | This has frequently happened on the Halemaumau volcano , which has a deep , circular , pit-like crater about one and a half kilometres across at its summit . |
| 5 | They were carried along on their gently-moving conveyor belt at a speed of about one and a half kilometres an hour , while they made determinations of the viscosity of the lava beneath the rubbly crust , and eventually hopped off again , none the worse for wear . |
| 6 | There are just two and a half kilometres of railway in Lesotho . |
| 7 | It was to the north west of the village about one and a half kilometres away , on the banks of a stream called the Rovacchia , behind a grass embankment . |
| 8 | He is the biggest of all seals , growing up to 14 feet long and a weight of two and a half tonnes . |
| 9 | The county council 's already provided an advisory route directing lorries away from the town centre — now it 's going one step further , banning all vehicles weighing more than seven and a half tonnes . |
| 10 | It had , however , collected eight and a half tons of khat , the mild narcotic leaf on which Djibouti feeds like caterpillars on cabbage . |
| 11 | Two and a half tons of fish taken in last year 's event . |
| 12 | One and a half tons . |
| 13 | Christopher Picton , 34 , of Avon Way , Colchester , Essex , became trapped as the reels , weighing two and a half tons , were being loaded on to a lorry . |
| 14 | New pits were sunk at Dare ( 1870 ) and Bwllfa ( 1877 ) : by 1900 the four collieries of the Ocean Company were producing over a million and a half tons of coal annually , and many other pits had also been sunk profitably . |
| 15 | One and a half tons of prime Canadian Hereford and the pride of the Lowerhope herd . |
| 16 | He pushed the vital button which blasted twelve and a half tons of rock at the ARC Quarry near Colwell , Northumberland . |
| 17 | There is a wind-blown cornice of about one and a half metres overhanging a sheer drop of about eight metres . |
| 18 | ( A pelycosaur sub-order like the Dimetrodon , with its great cooling crest , was three and a half metres long . ) |
| 19 | She fills the main space with ‘ Isthmus ’ , a tall copper box seven and a half metres in length and rising to the gallery 's ceiling . |
| 20 | One reason for finding the project intriguing was that it was a large open-air commission bigger than anything I had ever done about five and a half metres square . |
| 21 | I found it intriguing that the image on the screen was almost indecipherable , especially when blown up to five and a half metres square . |
| 22 | I loathe the metal anti-bazooka sheeting fixed to the museum walls and the twelve-millimetre-thick glass panel which , while protecting ‘ Guernica ’ , will only allow visitors to view the painting from a distance of three and a half metres . |
| 23 | My creature was two and a half metres tall . |
| 24 | He was about two and a half metres tall ; naked muscular chest and short dark hair . |
| 25 | At parts of the site where the rock was less than one and a half metres deep , in situ concrete was poured directly down onto the rock . |
| 26 | A gain of 400 in the first amplifier/filter will then produce an output of almost two and a half volts from the total earth 's field vector , avoiding overload and permitting a peak-to-peak measurement by rotating the core . |
| 27 | The Basingstoke Canal at Claycart had around three inches of ice which led to the cancellation of the HBCAA Open and there was two and a half inches of ice on the Oxford Canal which led to the scrapping of the Banbury Open . |
| 28 | Quite enough for a man only five feet , five and a half inches tall . |
| 29 | The suedehead had hair at least one and a half inches long . |
| 30 | It consists of an upright cylinder containing a twelve-inch piston with rod two and a half inches in diameter . |