Example sentences of "a half [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about 7.30 p.m. , after two and a half hours ' sleep curled up on the floor of the trench , I made my way out of the orchard and on to the road . |
| 2 | This fire officer , however , refused to allow the use of a sizeable proportion of the props , around which the entire show was structured ; and , although the Prince and Princess of Wales were arriving in one and a half hours ' time along with five Cabinet ministers , and the cast would have no time to rehearse without the props they relied upon , he was not to be budged . |
| 3 | The task of David Pomeranz in writing , and Adrian Reynolds in presentation , was to get this story into a two and a half hours ' stage show and to make it entertaining . |
| 4 | Yet the two earliest recordings of the movement , by the celebrated disciples Willem Mengelberg ( 1926 ) and Bruno Walter ( 1938 ) , average seven and a half minutes ' duration . |
| 5 | In Indonesia , in October 1990 , post-graduate researcher Bonar Tigor Naipospos was sentenced to eight and a half years ' imprisonment because he ‘ attempted to undermine Indonesian state ideology ’ through participation in a university study group and distributing banned literature . |
| 6 | Kenneth Tindall , 20 , of Woodvale Road , Grove Hill , was sentenced to two and a half years ' custody . |
| 7 | At the beginning of August he left for a two and a half months ' rest at sequestered Welsh and English houses . |