Example sentences of "of half a " in BNC.
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| 1 | While this first chapter has outlined what that criticism is , the next gives sketches of half a dozen critical types . |
| 2 | Now that is no joke because one of these big old saws can weigh the best part of half a ton . |
| 3 | The only surviving group of such installations can be explored at Curry Mallet near Taunton , Somerset , where three large gun emplacements with three-foot-thick concrete walls were built to house six-pounder anti-tank guns with a range of half a mile . |
| 4 | Well , I said , he 'd always had what he called Hinterland ( laughter here from his wife , Edna , across the room ) — not just politics , but poetry , and opera , and painting , and what appears to be a mastery of half a dozen languages , and his family . |
| 5 | For a place with a population of half a million or so it is a handy size . |
| 6 | Exact amounts of half a penny or less are rounded down . |
| 7 | Some time before , Malcolm had come up with a list of half a dozen names . |
| 8 | Sweetcorn , chickpeas or maples may well be the going bait and it could then be an advantage to fish a couple of very large jumbo tiger nuts of half a brazil nut over the top of the baited area . |
| 9 | The navy 's main force consists of half a dozen inshore patrol craft . |
| 10 | By the end of the day , Brigadier Horsfield , the commander of 24th Brigade , had the equivalent of half a brigade with tank and air support with which to reinforce the small Kuwaiti army in defensive positions north of the city on the Mutlah ridge . |
| 11 | If every confrontation requires the dispatch of half a million troops half way round the globe , the NWO will have failed . |
| 12 | The Tannoy announces the opening of the buffet , and up we get , not stopping for an instant to reflect that even standing in line for seven hours outside Moscow 's GUM department store in pursuit of half a mouldy cabbage would be a more profitable venture than a futile pilgrimage to a British Rail catering outlet . |
| 13 | Since its inception in 1983 , the programme 's bi-weekly , computer-administered payments of £80 have brightened the bank accounts of half a million Britons . |
| 14 | ‘ Imagine that ! ’ she had said again , to her escort , who wore white gloves , of course , because it was evening , but whose name she could never remember — it might have been any one of half a dozen — and whose fresh , young face was in shadow . |
| 15 | There the warden arrested him , imprisoned him in his gaol at Allexton , and afterwards released him for a fine of half a mark . |
| 16 | A ‘ token ’ cut in interest rates of half a point to 10 p.c. was nevertheless likely to happen before the end of the month . |
| 17 | Pillai was sent as assistant commissioner of the Raipur District of the Central Provinces , where he learned ‘ on the job ’ the art of administering to the needs of half a million people . |
| 18 | Vienna 's population of half a million in 1864 had become 2 million by 1914 . |
| 19 | So a 20-storey building has a period of about 2 seconds , a natural frequency of 0.5 hertz ; a five-storey building has a period of half a second , a natural frequency of 2 hertz . |
| 20 | It can , but does not necessarily , mean paddling down the Orinoco alone , with a two week ration of half a ship 's biscuit and some rancid coconut milk . |
| 21 | He found the failure rate to be 37 % , and identified the 500 titles ( out of a shelf stock of half a million ) which were most often unavailable . |
| 22 | The nineteenth-century agricultural historian Youatt calculated that in the second half of the eighteenth century every Londoner purchased an average of half a pound of meat a day — more than twice as much as the average in Paris or Brussels . |
| 23 | These semiconductors have been selected to respond to infrared radiation in four different wavebands , around 10 , 20 , 50 and 100 micrometres , a range of wavelengths that covers the maximum emission from bodies radiating at temperatures from 400 down to 40 K. ( ‘ Room temperature ’ is just below 300 K. ) The array will be used to pick up infrared sources within the telescope 's field of view of half a degree , that is , about the size of the Sun 's diameter as seen from Earth . |
| 24 | The Electrophone Company paid the Postmaster-General an annual sum of £25 plus a royalty of half a crown ( 1212p ) a year for each subscriber . |
| 25 | It must ‘ see ’ the satellite with an accuracy of half a degree and be unobscured by trees or roof tiles . |
| 26 | Currently 95 per cent of it is buried in landfill sites at an annual average of half a tonne of rubbish per household . |
| 27 | A hutch containing four mature working ferrets should have not less than 1 lb ( 450g ) of fresh meat daily — that 's the equivalent of half a rabbit . |
| 28 | The Sunday evening buffet is not to be missed , with a fish course of half a small lobster and a whole dressed crab , followed by a carvery with every kind of meat from beef to venison , and fresh poached salmon with crisp salads . |
| 29 | The central chandelier was gold-plated and weighed , it was rumoured , something in the region of half a ton . |
| 30 | Overall , in Britain , more than one in three of all journeys are made door-to-door on foot and pedestrian journeys of half a mile or less make up one-sixth of total personal transport demand . |