Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | They trudged along the Overclyst road for perhaps half a mile , and then turned down a lane on the left . |
| 2 | They are in a smallish courtyard with parking space for perhaps half a dozen cars . |
| 3 | Vernon remained silent for perhaps half a minute . |
| 4 | It was increasingly argued that unnecessary State control of personal and community affairs was wrong in principle , serving merely to weaken the capacity of the individual to enhance life chances ; arguments not heard for perhaps half a century were rehearsed . |
| 5 | That was the 1988 development value but the state of London 's housing market means that it is probably worth only half that today — and Chelsea is naturally reluctant to pay . |
| 6 | She was particularly fond , especially when asked her opinion on some current controversy , of quoting the words of Muhammad to Abu Said al-Khudri : ‘ Is n't the testimony of a woman worth only half the testimony of a man ? |
| 7 | Cheryl gazed for only half a minute . |
| 8 | You have met the little beast for only half an hour and her father has known her all her life ! ’ |
| 9 | Whether the share of GNP devoted to defence is 13–14 per cent or some other figure ; whether growth was 4 per cent a year throughout the 1970s , or for only half that time , military expenditure has been a major contributor to the investment squeeze . |
| 10 | He flinches for only half a second , but it 's enough to take me inside the hall . |
| 11 | Squatting in the soil , knees bent double either side of her head , intent on her hands working between her legs , Carolyn could have been taken for only half her age . |
| 12 | The hours of London tailors were fixed by statute , but the journeymen could still complain that the masters called upon them for only half a day , leaving them in their public houses all morning . |
| 13 | And one day there will be a case , one which even you will believe , of a sailor lost in a whale 's mouth and recovered from its belly ; maybe not after half a day , perhaps after only half an hour . |
| 14 | Some of the crew puffing after only half an hour or so , which is n't surprising as the only exercise they take in the normal run of things is putting their legs under a table and aiming their snouts at the trough . |
| 15 | After just half an hour in the pool , it was back to the troubled waters of the Foreign Office . |
| 16 | So , after nearly half a century of keeping its head down , it is beginning to take a higher profile abroad . |
| 17 | After about half an hour , Jane reappeared . |
| 18 | After about half an hour 's unsteady plodding along the sand , leaving dinosaur hoofprints and a small steaming roundabout in the middle of the beach , my buffalo turned back for home , slotted a few heads of corn into his cheeks by the way of reward and let me dismount . |
| 19 | Anyway , after about half an hour — the whole lesson — I just dried up and said something like , ‘ Well , that 's it . ’ |
| 20 | After about half an hour , the shooting died down and someone helped me inside the Cathedral . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Betty after about half a minute . |
| 22 | It was the thought of this that had her standing up after about half an hour in preparation to go to her room . |
| 23 | After maybe half a minute , the door was opened and Carson was hit by the rise in the music level and a sickly aroma which billowed out around him . |
| 24 | After around half a mile branch right to cross the Mellte above the Upper Clungwyn Falls . |
| 25 | Zimbabwe skipper Dave Walters and Jenkins then swopped penalties , but having scored 20 points in 15 minutes , Wales went to sleep and had to wait for outside half Adrian Davies to drop a goal with virtually the last kick of the half for their next score . |
| 26 | Those aged 65 + account for approximately half of all expenditure on the NHS . |
| 27 | The organ contributes for approximately half the orchestra in this work , which appropriately gave the RLPO 's wind section a deserved break . |
| 28 | Domestic network television now accounts for just half of Televisa 's sales , compared with more than 70% in 1990 . |
| 29 | Different manufacturers claim widely different life expectancies for both materials , but you can reasonably expect a five-year life from most types ( but as some manufacturers claim a life of only half this , and others double , check before you buy ) . |
| 30 | But , first , you can see the whole stage — and even today houses are being built with seats that have a view of only half the stage ! — and second , it is acoustically marvellous for the audience and the conductor ; for opera and for concerts , especially choral concerts . |