Example sentences of "a half [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naked Gun Two and a Half well that Naked Gun is awful , it 's a stupid comedy |
| 2 | A pound and a half please ? |
| 3 | So I put them two and a half up to press with this one and then I can turn it over and I 'll be on to third side . |
| 4 | My five feet four and a half even on tiptoe could nowhere approximate his angle of vision . |
| 5 | Or five and a half even . |
| 6 | ‘ The songs on the first album stem from a period a year and a half ago that was the emotional and physical hole of my life . |
| 7 | In place of the easy verities of a year and a half ago , America now has to cope with a Europe — both east and west — in a state of flux . |
| 8 | Patrick had fallen off a ladder over a year and a half ago and had been off work for much of that time . |
| 9 | The fried rice leavings seemed a year and a half ago . |
| 10 | A month and a half ago I bought Volume 12 of the Hyperion Schubert series . |
| 11 | Born in Limerick a year and a half ago as The Cranberry Saw Us ( shudder ) the three boys decided that they wanted a girl to call their own . |
| 12 | Bernard was thought to have been killed in a car-bomb attack a year and a half ago . |
| 13 | I wanted to do the things John and I had looked forward to a year and a half ago , to travel as we had planned , to work abroad , have a family before too long . |
| 14 | I was born Julian Parry , only daughter to Rhodri Parry , a merchant of this town , dealing in wool and woollen piece goods , and married by him a year and a half ago to Master Nicholas Hussey , who held lands here north of the town . |
| 15 | ‘ Yet — with your Grace 's permission ? — if this eight hundred marks was paid over no more than a year and a half ago , surely it can not all have been used or turned into goods so soon , ’ he said . |
| 16 | A year and a half ago , Hotspur thought , this fierce faun was surely no more than seventeen years old , and married off , like many another , to an old miser three or four times her age , for the sake of a noble name and a set of paltry quarterings , and the hope of a grandson set up in the landed estate . |
| 17 | A century and a half ago , the canal owners of England thought they were in the business of owning canals . |
| 18 | Mr Bird ( not Mrs — not in 1830 ) started that second-hand clothing business more than a century and a half ago . |
| 19 | And there indeed they are — an odd little cluster of houses built a century and a half ago , in a jumbled assortment of all the styles available at the time . |
| 20 | Remember that that was a year and a half ago . |
| 21 | The band formed a year and a half ago with Terry Bickers , ex-House of Love . |
| 22 | Morag French , 27 , is more optimistic about a job , although she did experience a few brief spells of unemployment before entering the hostel a year and a half ago . |
| 23 | And then they allow her got a stone and a half over before she has to start paying again . |
| 24 | He had drunk over a bottle and a half already but showed little outward sign of over-consumption , except for his accent curdling into a thicker Scots . |
| 25 | Three and a half already ? |
| 26 | And we 've got four and a half already |
| 27 | Erm six and a half nearly three and nearly one . |
| 28 | Twelve and a half per cent 's going to be twelve and a half over a hundred , er , oh , well , we 're going to cancel , but first of all we could go the opposite way , and multiply , just to get rid of this fraction . |
| 29 | In other words , erm , whateve the R is greater than C. Do you remember our , our formula for penaltriate benefit of an altruistic act exceeds the cost discounted by the degree of that 's between a half normally . |
| 30 | IT took Damien Denny only four and a half ruthlessly one sided minutes to strike a victory note at the Ulster Hall last night . |