Example sentences of "in half [art] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But its situation , ’ continues Johnson , ‘ seems well chosen for pleasure , if not for strength ’ ; and then in half a sentence he gives us a glimpse of local life and activity : ‘ It stands at the head of the lake and , by a sloop of sixty tuns , is supplied from Inverness with great convenience ’ — which description immediately conjures the vessel plying up and down Loch Ness with provisions , armaments , soldiers ' wives . |
| 2 | In half an hour we shall not be able to see our hands in front of our faces . |
| 3 | In half an hour we shall be riding north , victors . ’ |
| 4 | In half an hour she felt a lot better , but I knew now it would be my job to see her safely down to the hut . |
| 5 | In half an hour she was packed . |
| 6 | If it was something he had n't seen before , he 'd bend over it like it was a babby , and in half an hour he 'd know that machine inside out . ’ |
| 7 | First , I wanted to see the Castle of Zenda and in half an hour I had climbed the hill to it . |
| 8 | In half an hour I will ask you again about my brothers . ’ |
| 9 | Only do n't be too long ; if Matt 's not back in half an hour I 'm going home . ’ |
| 10 | In half an hour it was all planned . |
| 11 | In half an hour it would be time to take her loaves out of the oven : the only drawback to her new business was that it meant getting up early every single morning of the year . |
| 12 | He found that in half the cases it would have done better than the buy-out . |
| 13 | Well that 's a , that 's a thing of that particular day , at that time th th and life erm and then they get what they call , they bought a steam hopper , so the steam hopper would say , could get to sea quicker in half the time the dumb hoppers could and so we were rotating all the time , there used to be one dumb hopper go to sea , one steam hopper and we 'd be loading the other dumb hopper and then th course the steam hopper would be back in half the time we 'd that and that 's how we rotate , day to day . |
| 14 | You can no longer say , ‘ OK , but there will be a smart worker who will learn how to do that in half the time it takes now ’ . |
| 15 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |
| 16 | We surfed that channel in half the time it normally takes and then towards the end of our Connemara trip , even after a couple of longer crossings where she admitted she was cursing the disappearing stern of my glassfibres boat , she wanted to buy the Seayak . |