Example sentences of "a half [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At their very edges the sea encroaches far in at roughly twelve and a half hour intervals , and then retreats . |
| 2 | The operation follows an armed robbery at a village post post office near Reading and a 2 and a half hour police chase during which an inspector was shot at . |
| 3 | A variety of one to one and a half metre lengths of rope from about 6mm to 12mm should be taken , plus some tape lengths and a rack of tie-offs . |
| 4 | General Yakov Jilinski , then in overall command of the Northwest Front Group , on 17 August directed the First Army , under General Pavel Rennenkampf , comprising six and a half infantry divisions and five cavalry divisions , north toward the fortified area around Königsberg . |
| 5 | You can spot the weirdy inclinations from several kilometres , like the one and a half minute wig-outs of ‘ How Much Longer Must We Tolerate Mass Culture ’ and ‘ Missing Parts Of Famous People ’ , or the eight-minute wibbling challenge that is ‘ Music ’ . |
| 6 | But this first impression is grossly misleading — as you 'd realise if you heard Diversion 's rather wonderful EP , ‘ BZ ’ — four short , sharp pop songs which roll around experimentally in a wide field of influences and still come up smelling of roses , mainly because they 're all squashed together into spunky two and a half minute blasts . |
| 7 | It may be fortuitous that if we spend this morning discussing criteria , there 'll then be a gap of one and a half working days for those who do n't have to travel far to consider possible answers to the second stream of the dialogue . |
| 8 | The confidence of those words confirmed that in two and a half years Neighbours — the show which baffled the critics as its banality won millions of fans around the world — had transformed the shy diffident Kylie into an ambitious young woman . |
| 9 | A five and a half acre connoisseurs ' garden created by the late Vita Sackville-West and her husband , Sir Harold Nicolson . |