Example sentences of "and a half [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ OK , nine and a half ponies Nine fifty an ounce . ’ |
| 2 | Japanese , it 's a massive one , one er , it 's a thirty thousand gallon erm pond and it 's got , and it goes through a filter box and it 's four and a half tons of erm four and a half tons and that is a lot of |
| 3 | Japanese , it 's a massive one , one er , it 's a thirty thousand gallon erm pond and it 's got , and it goes through a filter box and it 's four and a half tons of erm four and a half tons and that is a lot of |
| 4 | The new Lady Waterlane , having drunk three-quarters of a bottle of Bollinger and achieved two and a half orgasms , was well content . |
| 5 | And er I told Mum the other day that w in double science we 've still got to do one and a half topics . |
| 6 | we 've still got ta do one and a half topics of these books . |
| 7 | Over 17 hands high , he had a girth which measured seventy-nine inches ( Secretariat 's girth was thought to be remarkably large at seventy-six inches ) and housed a heart which after his death tipped the scales at fourteen and a half pounds : the average for a Thoroughbred is around ten pounds . |
| 8 | He was a big boy , weighing nine and a half pounds at birth . |
| 9 | ‘ Excellent : nine and a half pounds of chocolate and a pair of socks . ’ |
| 10 | On one occasion he nearly saw the man killed : ‘ The rope , sixty-five yards long , on his being drawn up , having a knot in the middle , was arrested by a clint ( crack ) in the rock , to which , with an eaglet sixteen and a half pounds weight , tied to his back , he had no other resource than that of ascending by his hands , the space something overhanging from the nest to the crack … |
| 11 | She enjoyed dispensing their weekly portions from the store room on Monday mornings : a quarter-pound of tea for each that made one and a half pounds and quite enough too ; half a pound of butter ; one pound of sugar for each and a small tin of Epps cocoa between them all . |
| 12 | ‘ Her name 's Catherine , and she weighed seven and a half pounds , ’ Bill put in , intensely proud . |
| 13 | An inscription says it was caught in the late eighteenth century and weighed sixty eight and a half pounds . |
| 14 | A retired Ministry of Defence official has gone on trial accused of accepting a million and a half pounds in bribes to award arms contracts abroad . |
| 15 | ‘ weighed fifty-nine and a half pounds , measured forty eight inches in height , and gripped about sixty pounds . ’ |
| 16 | Sheila has lost three and a half pounds this week . |
| 17 | Nineteen and a half pounds , I thought they were more than that actually . |
| 18 | In two and a half pages there were seven references to efficiency , five to value for money , four to economies and two each to savings and cost effectiveness . |
| 19 | In addition , five and a half pages of notes to the accounts give valuable extra information . |
| 20 | She did not go up to London to see her lover without first drawing fifteen pounds out of her bank account , and thinking up a convincing story to tell her parents , and packing a good book to read on the train ( it was U.S.A. by John dos Passos , and she had read four and a half pages of it before she had been interrupted by her neighbour 's knee ) , and looking up her lover 's address in the A to Z. |
| 21 | issued in 1604 : it happens to use the same fount of music type as the Select Songs in the Fairy Queen , and it occupies two and a half pages : it could not have been squeezed onto two . |
| 22 | We 've been humping away for a whole two and a half pages . |
| 23 | Like both sides , to do like two and a half pages . |
| 24 | Duration of meaningful contact , two and a half minutes , fifteen minutes . |
| 25 | The question is whether it is worth while to make an alteration by which you will gain at most two and a half minutes … |
| 26 | By 2.00 though the pains were every one and a half minutes and I was only 2cms dilated. was sitting eating sandwiches and I was starving hungry . |
| 27 | It 's best to do these on the track , but if one is not available , you can do repeats of two and a half to three and a half minutes on the road . |
| 28 | Of course all I needed was a two-minute sit-down and in two and a half minutes I was not only fully recovered and ready to carry on , I had adrenalin pumping out the top of my hat in anger that my man had left me to die . |
| 29 | The mile took nine and a half minutes , at the end of which my dead weight pulled me , wheezing and red-faced , into an armchair . |
| 30 | Woodmill controlled the game for much of the first half but could not get through the Meridian defence and it was n't until two and a half minutes into the second half that the deadlock was finally broken . |