Example sentences of "it [verb] half [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beech et al. ( 1985 ) have compared its dietary characteristics with those of lean raw beefsteak , and although it has a protein content of c. 47 per cent , which is nearly 20 per cent less than the beefsteak , it contains half the fat and is rich in fibre . |
| 2 | It takes half a second or so in one bite . |
| 3 | It takes half a second or so in one bite . |
| 4 | It takes half a minute . |
| 5 | The responses I heard to that question were most unsatisfactory , the County Council 's response was , ah , well we 'll have to get together again with the group of authorities , now if you look back over how long it has taken to produce this particular strategy that 's exceedingly worrying , that means they 'll have to get together again , even if it takes half the time or a third of the time , they 'll have to get together again towards nineteen ninety seven ninety eight to be considering the strategy post two thousand and six . |
| 6 | ‘ And as it takes half an hour to drive to Royal Wrigglesworth we must assume that Sir Vivien 's Lagonda would have driven through the village at about eight . ’ |
| 7 | She hates parks ; it takes half an hour to get there from the flats and then the kids are put inside one lot of railings like some kind of animals and you walk up and down inside another lot and watch them . |
| 8 | It takes half an hour to get from Bournemouth to Southampton , but it can take up to an hour to get from Barts to the Westminster hospital . |
| 9 | ‘ It takes half an hour to get anywhere in London on the tube , ’ said Edward . |
| 10 | unless it takes half an hour , well half an hour anyway |
| 11 | It took half a mile to come to a halt after the crash and the driver was treated for shock . |
| 12 | It took half an hour for Rock Hudson and a doctor to pull him from the wreck . |
| 13 | Six of us , Mohammed , Aziz , Ali ( Aziz 's assistant ) , six locals and goods it took half an hour to unload half way , was a fairly modest load . |
| 14 | It took half an hour before she came across it , moored by a small wooden landing stage . |
| 15 | It was as if , owing to the punishment I had received , all the close and companionable cells of my brain had been spaced round the frozen world , so that it took half an hour for intelligence to march from one department to the next . |
| 16 | It was a short note but it took half the morning , a thousand attempts . |
| 17 | It means half the school kitchens in Gloucestershire will be redundant , except of course for the washing up . |
| 18 | It said half a pint . |
| 19 | It had half a squadron of tanks embarked and there was another half squadron stockpiled in Kuwait itself . |
| 20 | Maybe it lasted half an hour , that sleep , it could n't have been longer because there was still no daylight when I was woken , although he did n't mean to wake me . |
| 21 | What seeped out of the and mixed with some air from there would have been a little dung in it to it stood half the summer and got to be really high . |