Example sentences of "more than half a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tunnels were gloomier , the only illumination coming from occasional bf tubes suspended awkwardly from holes hacked at random in the roof , no more than half a metre above their heads . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mounds of dirt , rock and sand — little hills engulfed by dunes — blocked our view so that we could see no more than half a mile in any direction . |
| 4 | Tell her we all do the breast-stroke , refuse at water jumps , hit the bullseye once in a blue moon and get blisters when we run more than half a mile . |
| 5 | Even so , he could not see more than half a mile in the Roxburgh direction owing to a slight ridge of grass and whins . |
| 6 | The raiders fled empty-handed and Iris — who has n't competed in a race for 57 years — chased after them for more than half a mile . |
| 7 | The two narrows are narrow indeed — the first no more than half a mile wide and , before the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 , crowded with a mass of shipping . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The incomparable asset of Pau is the Boulevard tea Pyrenees , which runs for more than half a mile along the southern edge of the main town , between the chateau at one end and the casino and the Parc Beaumont at the other . |
| 10 | A little more than half a mile away , on the other side of the Isle of Dogs , Ebenezer 's sister Ruth was also awake . |
| 11 | If you are male , of at least medium height , and more than half a stone overweight . |
| 12 | The result is that Jarvis has put on more than half a stone — he 's up to 11 and ahalf now — and feels all the better for it . |
| 13 | If you put more than half a stone on |
| 14 | The static torque/ rotor position characteristic repeats with a wavelength of one rotor tooth pitch , so the rotor only returns to the correct step position if it is not displaced by more than half a rotor tooth pitch . |
| 15 | The rotor oscillations increase in amplitude as successive steps are executed until the rotor lags or leads the demanded step position by more than half a rotor tooth pitch . |
| 16 | It is said to have been the biggest women 's gathering since suffrage days , a little more than half a century before … |
| 17 | It was a conquest which would be theirs for more than half a century . |
| 18 | The likely truth lies in those still-sealed files on chemical warfare experiments — but the riddle of Shingle Street refuses to be buried after more than half a century . |
| 19 | This was all part of a romanticising process that has afflicted Pygmalion for more than half a century . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century . |
| 22 | The Open Spaces Society , which is by far our oldest environmental pressure body has for more than half a century been encouraging the continuance of the ancient practice of Beating the Bounds by parish and community councils and local groups . |
| 23 | Fergie 's antics plunge Royal Family into its biggest crisis for more than half a century |
| 24 | Quakers , evangelicals inside and outside the Church of England and Rational Dissenters and Unitarians all articulated a powerful abolitionist and emancipationist appeal over more than half a century . |
| 25 | For more than half a century , in accordance with the collector 's will , the paintings occupied their own suite of first-floor galleries . |
| 26 | The new Hermitage director has worked there for nearly two years as assistant academic director under acting-director Vitaliy Suslov , but he has been connected with the museum almost all his life ; his father , Academician Boris Piotrovskiy ( 1908–90 ) , was on the staff at the Hermitage for more than half a century , and was its director for twenty-six years before his death en poste . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But Daphne 's dear familiarity , the pleasure of her company , the comfort of knowing pretty well what she would say in response to any remark , the whole warm , easy , ancient closeness that had subsisted between them for more than half a century , won over Cecilia 's temporary , though profound , embarrassment . |
| 29 | Thereafter the accelerating rate of population growth coincided with the ending of the bounty of generally good harvests to turn the trend in the cost of living sharply upwards , while in most regions the increase in the labour force changed a labour market in which wages had generally held up for more than half a century . |
| 30 | 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 . |