Example sentences of "a half [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | An ‘ activity ’ might last any length of time from one and a half hours to ( say ) a sustained activity lasting , over a period , as much as ten hours . |
| 2 | Will my hon. Friend commend as compulsory reading part of our proceedings in Committee when for the first time hon. Members listened for two or two and a half hours to — |
| 3 | Back on board , we advanced our watches two and a half hours to Central Standard Time . |
| 4 | Well I reckon it 's gon na take us three and a half hours to get to the other end , so two and a half hours to it and an hour on it if it 's not too bad and then of course we 've got to go up from there to Ipswich , Woodbridge but it 's dual carriageway all the way now you see . |
| 5 | Eleven and a half minutes to three o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 6 | It 's six and a half minutes to six . |
| 7 | It 's two and a half minutes to six o'clock . |
| 8 | It took one and a half days to the confluence with the Tisza with mosquitos , heat , sometimes unbearable , and camping wild on sandbanks . |
| 9 | Compare that attendance figure with the 248,000 visitors over two and a half months to the ‘ Masterworks from Lille ’ exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum , an only averagely successful exhibition by their standards ; the 204,000 to ‘ Sisley ’ at the Royal Academy over two and a half months , and even the 52,000 to ‘ Royal Treasures of Sweden ’ over three months , considered a flop by the R.A. |
| 10 | In 1986–87 there were approximately two and a half inmates to one officer . |
| 11 | AS YOU might expect of a nation that has devoted the past three and a half centuries to failed attempts at independence , Ukrainian leaders have a propensity for messing things up when it matters most . |