Example sentences of "a half [noun pl] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two areas did differ in the level of statutory service provision ; in Ipswich , home help input was available only two or three days a week for up to one and a half hours at a time , and a financial assessment and payment for home help had recently been introduced . |
| 2 | After two and a half hours at the leisure centre , Joanna was taken to a police station in Hemel Hempstead . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) While this section applies to any premises , the effect shall be that , for the purposes mentioned in subsection ( 3 ) below , the permitted hours in those premises in the afternoon shall be increased by the addition of one and a half hours at the end thereof . |
| 4 | That 's five and a half hours at a bit under two knots — say ten miles in round figures . |
| 5 | He was a big boy , weighing nine and a half pounds at birth . |
| 6 | As Nick Gatfield , director of A&R for EMI Records ( UK ) says , ‘ In three and a half years at EMI I have signed only one artist from an unsolicited demo tape . ’ |
| 7 | We were then transferred to the Gendarmerie Royale , we stayed for one year in a prison camp in Rabat , then four and a half years at the headquarters of the Gendarmerie in Rabat , our hands tied day and night from 13 July , 1975 to 19 December , 1979 . |
| 8 | I could get used to two and a half days at school a week instead of five ! |
| 9 | His emissary , Menshikov , spent two and a half months at the Turkish capital and succeeded in reversing the Turks ' decision on the Holy Places . |