Example sentences of "[adv] a half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robbie had no star on his head and only a half white collar , as did Sophie . |
| 2 | As the centre of the latter is only a half hour 's walk away , many of its attractions are the same ( and for these please see entry for Topp 's Hotel ) . |
| 3 | In only a half a century , television bought violence has become a central theme to the life of our young people . |
| 4 | That 's only a half a one to start with ! |
| 5 | Summer skiing : Kaprun 's glacier is just a half hour bus ride away . |
| 6 | Just give a weeny , just a half a teaspoonful of that . |
| 7 | The senior ( 16-19 years ) boys 100 metres butterfly produced a keen battle in which Mark Wolfenden ( Chester ) returned 57.74 just a half metre ahead of Steven Mavin ( Ramsay Abbey ) 58.04 with David Carr ( Dronfield ) a close third in 58.62 . |
| 8 | Er just a half a glass erm |
| 9 | just a half a mile from the |
| 10 | Well at least it 's just a half day at school today . |
| 11 | LNTs are always a half step below the arpeggio note . |
| 12 | Even so , a rise in the proportion of appliance sales on hire purchase from only a tenth on nationalisation to nearly a half ten years later enabled them to retain their share in the growing retail market for electrical goods at about the 25 per cent level which they inherited on nationalisation . |
| 13 | Nearly a half consider it to be fairly useful in this respect but a quarter to be not very useful , and 10 per cent not at all . |
| 14 | Erm I just moved probably a half a pace so P C would get exactly the same view as myself . |
| 15 | It was just about a half a mile of water to cross . |
| 16 | It was certainly no thrupenny bit nor even a half a crown . |
| 17 | I could put my erm , my dressing gown in , and that 's not even a half load . |
| 18 | The meaning that they gave it should send cold shivers down the spine of any parent : fully a half thought that it was an instruction to cross the road , and half of these thought that it was showing you how to do it — by running ! |
| 19 | Most managed at least a half day each week . |
| 20 | And he , he possibly had done it at least a half a dozen times |
| 21 | Yeah , but he 's got in there a half shed and er this er |
| 22 | The deficit in Australia was down by almost a half following a reduction in claims costs and New Zealand maintained its excellent 1992 performance to produce an underwriting profit for the quarter . |
| 23 | Market researchers focused on the firm figure it 's more likely a half a million . |