Example sentences of "a half [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three and a half tonnes of home made explosives were inside , needing only seconds to prime . |
| 2 | Particular emphasis has been placed on the fact that the county embraces the best part of two national parks as well as two and a half areas of outstanding natural beauty and a heritage coast . |
| 3 | In addition , five and a half pages of notes to the accounts give valuable extra information . |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a bit of an aphrodisiac apparently , ’ I explained — ‘ which is tremendously useful when you 've just done a two-and-a-half hour show , driven 45 minutes home , eaten a baked potato the size of a human foot , scrubbed off two layers of greasepaint , nose shading , violet eyeshadow and seemingly permanent mascara , brushed one and a half cans of lacquer off the split ends , flossed the gums , massaged the bridgework , popped the ear plugs over the acupuncture needle , put the airplane mask over the anti-ageing eye cream and — pièce de lack of résistance — applied the ‘ Tonic Bust ’ to prevent anything descending further south during the night . |
| 7 | After about four and a half hours of driving , Sadler calculated that they were one mile away from the target , although there was absolutely nothing to see . |
| 8 | The show is one and a half hours of entertainment for children of all ages . |
| 9 | The large steam chamber has a one litre capacity , allowing up to one and a half hours of continuous ironing with three times more steam per minute than a conventional iron . |
| 10 | Five days to learn two and a half hours of ‘ Tubular Bells ’ and other pretty involved stuff . |
| 11 | After two and a half hours of deliberation , they awarded damages against The Sun , editor Kelvin MacKenzie and freelance journalist Ken Irwin . |
| 12 | This is at the comparatively small cost of three hours therapy time per individual if there are two therapists running a group ( one and a half hours of therapy time per individual if there is one therapist ) . |
| 13 | BARB 's research shows that the average individual watches around three and a half hours of television per day ( and has done so for at least the last 10 years ) , just over half of this being ITV . |
| 14 | They found that much of the large negative basis in the first one and a half hours of trading was due to the use of stale prices from Friday 16 October in computing the index . |
| 15 | He 'd have had , say , five and a half hours of it . |
| 16 | three and a half hours of work . |
| 17 | Star of many a West End musical success , Bonnie Langford dances her way through two and a half hours of showstopping song and dance . |
| 18 | Subdued , tired , and recovering from two and a half hours of surgery Frankie Vaughan still knew how to make an entrance . |
| 19 | On top of that Hamilton has been overseeing three and a half hours of live television in a time-slot littered with failed ventures . |
| 20 | The fracture of the right femur healed in six weeks with two and a half inches of shortening . |
| 21 | we 've still got ta do one and a half topics of these books . |
| 22 | ‘ Excellent : nine and a half pounds of chocolate and a pair of socks . ’ |
| 23 | Sprinkle one and a half teaspoons of dried yeast over the surface , stir once and leave until there is a good head of froth , usually after about 10–15 minutes . |
| 24 | Coat 225g/8oz mixed nuts and 50g/2oz pumpkin seeds in 25g/1oz melted butter , one and a half teaspoons of paprika , one teaspoon of ground cumin , half a teaspoon of ground allspice and quarter of a teaspoon of salt . |
| 25 | Mix 150g/5oz chopped raspberries with one and a half tablespoons of natural fromage frais , three tablespoons of whipped double cream , three teaspoons of crème de cassis , one and a half teaspoons of golden caster sugar and one and a half tablespoons of chopped fresh mint . |
| 26 | Fifty-seven and a half battalions of troops restored order in a month with about a thousand Indian casualties , aircraft being used on a number of occasions to machine-gun crowds from the air . |
| 27 | The method has been in use since 1977 and requires only two and a half minutes of therapy time , according to reports . |
| 28 | It was when he was commissioned to write seventeen and a half minutes of light music for the radio that I discovered why Jean-Claude had insisted I bring from London some of my most beautifully tailored suits and expensive dresses . |
| 29 | What I do n't want is ten minutes of waffle and one and a half minutes of pure gold . |
| 30 | And with seven and a half minutes of injury time Milton hung on to their slender lead ; final score here at Bishops Cleve was Bishops Cleve nil , Milton United one . |