Example sentences of "it [vb past] half a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took half a mile to come to a halt after the crash and the driver was treated for shock . |
| 2 | It took half an hour for Rock Hudson and a doctor to pull him from the wreck . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It took half an hour before she came across it , moored by a small wooden landing stage . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It said half a pint . |
| 7 | It had half a squadron of tanks embarked and there was another half squadron stockpiled in Kuwait itself . |
| 8 | 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 . |