Example sentences of "the [noun] [coord] a half " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked round , and realized she had cleaned the whole office in the hour and a half since he had seen her . |
| 2 | I 'd leave the shop at 6 p.m. , drive off to a gig , ( reeking of chips despite bathing nightly in Domestos ) and return in time for the hour and a half of cleaning which began as soon as the last customer left at midnight . |
| 3 | He had invited her to join the ladies ' sewing circle , and even suggested that she might like to attend the Tuesday evening Bible readings which he ran — he was sure that ‘ dear Miss Mates ’ would release her for the hour and a half the readings usually took . |
| 4 | In addition , there was a further surcharge of 2.5 p/kWh during the hour and a half of heaviest demand during the day , at whatever time that occurred . |
| 5 | However , after a discussion with Pat Eddery , it was felt that Ile De Nisky had not truly stayed the mile and a half , hence the revised programme . |
| 6 | When he went home to his parents ' house in Ealing or to the Barbican , his grandmother drove him the mile and a half to Rickmansworth station , which is up on the northern end of the Metropolitan Line . |
| 7 | However , there had always been a doubt as to whether or not Rodrigo could stay the mile and a half at Epsom . |
| 8 | It is fair to say that during the day and a half of discussions in June 1993 alarm was expressed at the difficulties posed by the future of the historian 's resource . |
| 9 | And you can bet no-one in football has been thinking or working harder than Ray Harford in the week and a half closedown of the Premier League — and Blackburn 's dream . |
| 10 | Moving like a boy in treacle , I rotate on the axis of my right knee and pick up the yard and a half of large bore nozzle between hands slick with sweat . |
| 11 | Value for far more than the length and a half he beat Grand Applause there , he will relish the step up in trip for the Chichester Festival Theatre Stakes . |
| 12 | The ton and a half of car rocked , driving over the ice-hardened ruts carved out by farm tractors in kinder weather . |
| 13 | Adaptation to Roman society and culture ; doctrinal self-definition , and organizational solidification : the century and a half after Constantine 's conversion was all this ; but more than anything else , it was the time in which Christians learnt to live in the new conditions of their existence . |
| 14 | Several modifications have been made to this bridge in the century and a half since its completion , but it remains basically the same bridge that Telford designed , and was one of the great civil-engineering achievements of the period . |
| 15 | The century and a half of research that followed was largely fixated on testing out this hypothesis of ‘ localization of function ’ . |
| 16 | The relaunched company was primarily concerned with exporting textiles , and in particular Indian cotton goods , which continued to be its main line of business throughout the century and a half in which it traded with India . |
| 17 | How are Russia 's massive expansion and the remorseless rise in her international prestige in the century and a half before the Crimean War to be explained ? |
| 18 | The third question is so closely related to changes in the forms of rural settlement and to the growth and decline of towns that it is best considered in these contexts ; the present chapter will concentrate on the scale of mortality and the fluctuations in the total population of England in the century and a half before 1529 . |
| 19 | In the century and a half prior to Gregory numerous saints ' Lives had been written , most notably those concerned with the Lérinian saints , Honoratus , Hilary of Arles and Caesarius , as well as those devoted to Germanus of Auxerre , the Jura Fathers , and Genovefa , the virgin saint of Paris . |
| 20 | In the year and a half which had elapsed since the famous showdown between Arkle and Mill House at Cheltenham their fortunes had contrasted starkly . |
| 21 | He says the year and a half he 's spent in America has helped him grow up a little . |
| 22 | Although we 'd been left pretty much to our own devices in the last months in the Pit , the year and a half underground had become increasingly depressing . |
| 23 | But on the whole the canvases of 1911 show the painters at their closest point , and the year and a half from the autumn of 1910 until the spring of 1912 was the period during which Cubist painting of the pre-war period appeared to change least radically . |
| 24 | In the year and a half he has been at the Lyric he has established himself as something of a ‘ character ’ and has chalked up a number of box office successes . |
| 25 | New Zealanders really do scrummage and referees take a liberal view of the metre and a half law . |