Example sentences of "half a [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Digging up danger … half a hundredweight of bullets in a rose bed . |
| 2 | It had half a squadron of tanks embarked and there was another half squadron stockpiled in Kuwait itself . |
| 3 | In case we do n't like the cake she brings half a tea-chest of biscuits and three different jams . |
| 4 | Topics will include ‘ Connoisseurship and the idea of quality ’ ; ‘ Legends about art in the Middle Ages ’ ; ‘ The Renaissance as a historical concept ’ ; ‘ Classicism and Anticlassicism in Latin American art history ’ ; ‘ Recent documentary photography and photojournalism ’ ; ‘ The artist in technoculture ’ ; ‘ Homosexuality and the practice of art history ’ ; ‘ The new Soviet and East European art worlds ’ ; ‘ The artist 's role in a collapsing society ’ ; ‘ Art and the environment ’ ; ‘ Artists working in the community ’ ; ‘ Native American and Pacific Island art history ’ ; ‘ Art history and publishing ’ ; ‘ Print media in the twenty-first century ’ ; ‘ Fluxus ’ ; ‘ Half a century of women in art history ’ . |
| 5 | But it was about i there were three things on the day , so it should be an hour and half a couple of hours . |
| 6 | He put me on a stretcher , had me carried about half a mile across fields to an ambulance , which in turn took me down to the local advanced dressing station . |
| 7 | The doctor said : ‘ A specimen of blood showed he had drunk the equivalent of nine or ten pints of lager or half a bottle of spirits . ’ |
| 8 | Then , when Ricky shook his head , ‘ But you used to dreenk half a bottle before chukkas . |
| 9 | Yeah and half a portion of chips . |
| 10 | However , the half-life of the process is something like 1022 years ; in other words half a sample of nuclei would decay by this means in 1022 years . |
| 11 | About half a sample of consumers who had used the Building Societies Ombudsman or the Insurance Ombudsman felt their schemes were not fair enough and nearly a third questioned their independence . |
| 12 | The roofing felt was eventually fixed with a gallon of disgusting adhesive and half a pound of nails , which just about completed the major work , everything else could be classified as ‘ off jobs ’ to finish off . |
| 13 | half a pound of grapes |
| 14 | Witches ' Stew One pound of stinging nettles , five spiders found dead , half a pound of mouldy grass , two small sticks , seven old banana skins , half a pound of leaves , nine witches ' toenails , three bats ' wings , seven cockroaches , eight pigeons ' feathers and the fur from a wire-haired fox terrier , all stewed together on Friday the thirteenth from 12 noon to 12 midnight . |
| 15 | For example , one ounce of butter or margarine contains as many calories as half a pound of potatoes . |
| 16 | ‘ The truth is , ’ Rosa began , in her most teacherly tones , ‘ that when you want a man , and you look around and you ca n't see the one you like , you go into the kitchen , and you take a pound of the whitest flour , a pound of the whitest sugar , a pound of the most refined fat you have , and a flask of rosewater and a handful of raisins , another of currants , half a pound of almonds ground to paste , a squeeze of lemon-juice , a pinch of cinnamon and a sprinkle of powdered clove . |
| 17 | Whistling to himself , Henry laid the table , while , in the corner of the kitchen , Maisie finished her last chocolate bar and got to work on a packet of crisps , a tube of Rollos , half a pound of jellybabies and a jumbo bar of Turkish delight . |
| 18 | Charles smoked his way through half a packet of Gauloises while John told his story . |
| 19 | Half a packet of biscottes . |
| 20 | I 'd had half a tab at prayers in the morning but it had worn off by now . |
| 21 | Salome was in a metal frame bed with about half a ton of bits and pieces surrounding it so it did n't escape . |
| 22 | I used to go with half a ton of sweets in my back pocket . |
| 23 | ‘ The police will have you believe that on the night of 12 September , after consuming half a tin of pilchards , she decided life was not worth living and hacked off her left leg with a non-existent sharp instrument . |
| 24 | I saw an elderly lady with half a lifetime of raffles behind her and half a dozen tea cosies in her drawer , winning yet another tea cosy and , smiling , handing it back to be re-raffled . |