Example sentences of "was [adv] half [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was perhaps half an hour to an hour later that the Sheikh 's Mercedes drew into the parking lot and a man got out . |
| 2 | The Hotel Orion was only half a mile away . |
| 3 | On one occasion , when the Land Rover was only half a mile away , I had to go three miles to reach it . |
| 4 | He considered the matter as he might have done when he was only half a century old in what he still called the ‘ swinging ’ sixties , when lunch for two might be had at Alvaro 's for a five pound note and his column ‘ Jottings ’ by Haverford Downs in the weekly Informer had been described on the wireless as ‘ Max Beerbohm with a social conscience ’ . |
| 5 | I drank two of their barrels of wine , and was still thirsty , because that was only half a litre . |
| 6 | There was only half a loaf left . |
| 7 | Everybody 's door was open , whatever they had was shared you know whatever one ever had , an even it was only half a loaf it was there . |
| 8 | Gloria said he only went along with her because of the housing shortages , because he knew he was lucky to have a room at all , even if it was only half a room at Mrs Parvis 's . |
| 9 | But that was only half the message . |
| 10 | But that was only half the trick . |
| 11 | Cost-cutting was only half the story . |
| 12 | Nigel was left with just one woman in his life to torment , which was only half the fun . |
| 13 | But starting the Reformation was only half the battle : turning its principles into practicable policies and maintaining momentum in the face of opposition from determined vested interests was much more difficult . |
| 14 | By this time Stirling had disappeared and they needed to find him as there was only half an hour of darkness left . |
| 15 | Arthur Peeble had three quarters of an hour allowed for his dinner , but Nan Henderson 's dinner break was only half an hour . |
| 16 | The friend in Italy was only half an answer . |
| 17 | Cameron was already half an hour later than Alexandra had budgeted for him to be . |
| 18 | It was very tiring work , and it kept me busy so that I did not look up and see the Hispaniola until she was just half a mile away from me ! |
| 19 | The Bf110 , he thought , as he flew sedately north towards Denmark , was not half the plane the 109 was . |
| 20 | They were principally used on board ship to measure its speed by counting the number of knots paid out on a line tied to a log floating astern , while the sand-glass measured a given time that was usually half a minute . |
| 21 | Stayed there er until the education people obviously decided that the junior schools erm infants schools , sorry , er were going to move in into another area and so I moved up to Lane School , which was possibly half a mile from my home . |
| 22 | It was still half a game , this cooking business — learning to make the sort of food they had when they went out to dinner . |
| 23 | The May sunset was red in clouds , and there was still half an hour to twilight . |
| 24 | And when Phil Newport was run out for seven Worcestershire were well down the road to their 90 all out — extras top score of twenty one — and it was still half an hour to lunch . |
| 25 | It was nearly half a minute before we took in the situation , and then it was too ludicrous . |
| 26 | It was nearly half an hour later that the doorbell sounded again . |
| 27 | Erm , I was up half the night typing this stupid report . |
| 28 | ‘ Your ten minutes was up half an hour ago , Clare . |
| 29 | Three days later I was limping back from the village and was about half a mile from home when I saw a movement in the hedge . |
| 30 | Our easily found gite at Trans-en-Provence was about half a mile from this road . |