Example sentences of "than half a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fogdoe was more than half a second faster than any of his rivals on the deciding run , with Austrians Thomas Sykora and Hubert Strolz in second and third . |
| 2 | Very late though it is , there is a formica-clad coffee or hamburger bar still open less than half a mile away and I have enough cash in hand to buy my first food of the day and my first hot drink . |
| 3 | Within a matter of days some were caught more than half a mile away . |
| 4 | The car that forced Chrissie Stone off the road was dumped outside the Underground station , less than half a mile away from the crash . ’ |
| 5 | To us , the glacier now appeared to lie more than half a mile away from the river , but scrambling across the black gravel of the terminal moraine , we were surprised to find that this rubble concealed the true icy snout . |
| 6 | A little more than half a mile away , on the other side of the Isle of Dogs , Ebenezer 's sister Ruth was also awake . |
| 7 | Yet the contrast that presented itself to me as Edward Thomas described it was dramatic : down in the valley less than half a mile away was a modern colliery with all the latest gadgetry of modern technology , while the hill farmers ( at least some of them ) were still in the Middle Ages — even earlier , as far as their material culture was concerned . |
| 8 | Con Fenton 's cottage was less than half a mile away and on my way back to the surgery , on an impulse I pulled up at the door . |
| 9 | Slowly , for she could still hear them less than half a mile away , she walked forward into the thick of it . |
| 10 | A member of the Royal Family and twenty thousand people were assembled less than half a mile away down wind . |
| 11 | If it 's half less than half a mile away then it 's it 's fine but if not it starts to becoming problematical . |
| 12 | Some who had tried to steal food from farms behind the Serb lines less than half a mile away had been shot dead . |
| 13 | The environs of the waterfall are pleasant enough and there is no suspicion of the Peril 's dark secret unless a small opening under the overhang of the cliff alongside is noticed : this insignificant hole admits to the largest cave system in the valley , underground passages extending for more than half a mile below and far beyond the road in a succession of tight crawls and large caverns . |
| 14 | Less than half a century ago the Midland stood at the pinnacle of the financial system , the largest bank in the world . |
| 15 | The Greek civil war of 1946–49 — less than half a century ago in fact , but merely yesterday in the politics of south-east Europe — was the last great European left-versus-right convulsion ; by comparison , the Hungarian rebellion of 1956 was no more than a bloody skirmish . |
| 16 | ‘ That picture was taken more than half a century ago . ’ |
| 17 | It was in defence of the presumed ‘ sovereignty ’ of this peculiar nation — a product of the Quai d'Orsay rather than the creation of any Arab national aspiration — that countless thousands were to die more than half a century later . |
| 18 | This principle , that within each diplomatic rank ( ambassador , minister-resident , etc. ) precedence should be decided merely by seniority , was to lead more than half a century later , by the international convention of 1818 , to a final solution of most of the issues on which for generations so many energies had been expended and so much ink spilt . |
| 19 | It is said to have been the biggest women 's gathering since suffrage days , a little more than half a century before … |
| 20 | By 1415 he showed himself willing to accept a good deal less : he would settle for the legal and territorial terms agreed at Brétigny , now more than half a century earlier , and a smaller dowry . |
| 21 | Less than half an hour later she cleaned the brush in white spirit and pressed the lid of the tin noiselessly down . |
| 22 | Less than half an hour later the reply was back , telling United to get lost . |
| 23 | Less than half an hour later I left the front entrance of the Astoria and walked down the dark side street . |
| 24 | We had not been going for more than half an hour when the driver of the sick man 's bullock cart came to me and said that all was now well , we need go no further . |
| 25 | You know , when I came from ’ — she thumbed towards the wall — next door , not more than half an hour ago , I was very sad inside . |
| 26 | I have no later than half an hour ago contacted my office and there has been no official communication re any decision being made on the royal dockyard and the capacity none whatsoever . |
| 27 | ‘ I was back here and less than half an hour afterwards they were on my doorstep . ’ |
| 28 | Self-Portrait Jumping contains ten tracks ( although one , Dreamachine , is more than half an hour long ) . |
| 29 | You love him , he 's kind to animals , and is never more than half an hour late , but is that a good basis on which to plan your lives together ? |
| 30 | They concluded with prayers for the repose of the soul of the dead man , who had been alive and in good health less than half an hour before . |