Example sentences of "a half [noun pl] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was less than three and a half hours ago , but it might have been years . |
| 2 | She picked up the phone and dialled Heathrow , asked for Flight Information , was told that the flight from New York had arrived on time some three and a half hours ago . |
| 3 | TWO AND A HALF years ago I was diagnosed as being HIV positive . |
| 4 | Its own scheme was implemented three and a half years ago , and now 85 per cent of its 250,000 borrowers pay this way . |
| 5 | LIQUIDATORS of the Isle of Man Savings and Investment Bank , which crashed seven and a half years ago with debts of £42.4m , said last night they would be paying more than 10p in the pound to the 4,000 mainly small investors who lost money . |
| 6 | All the money will go to Aid to Romanian Orphans , launched some two and a half years ago , following Anneke Rice 's televised visit to Romania . |
| 7 | Three and a half years ago , six computer programmers gave up their regular jobs to form Computercraft . |
| 8 | When Mr. Gussman arrived in Alton some two and a half years ago , there was a question mark over whether or nor it was worth making him chaplain of the hospital . |
| 9 | ‘ And as my disgusting stepfather walked out two and a half years ago , ’ pointed out Perdita , ‘ the Committee are going to think it pretty odd that Mum 's got a bun in the oven . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ One of the things that struck me as an outsider , coming into the firm two and a half years ago , was that there was no accountability , ’ recalls Mel Smaje . |
| 11 | When I arrived at Palace five and a half years ago it was n't only Ian 's gold tooth and charisma that sparkled on the training field . |
| 12 | When I started in the Preliminary Training School two and a half years ago my aunt had passed Little Ben on to me and had my name engraved beneath hers and grandfather 's on the back . |
| 13 | It was sold about seven and a half years ago to its US distributors . |
| 14 | Famous for its marketing campaign that guaranteed bug-free software — if you found a bug you could claim a VW Beetle from the company — Ready Systems embarked on an ambitious project two and a half years ago to build a completely new tool suite . |
| 15 | A small group er from my own parish went to India two and a half years ago to visit our missionary partner . |
| 16 | Montaine 's suicide had taken place two and a half years ago . |
| 17 | And that was how I was trained and that way I was trained seven and a half years ago , it has now all changed again . |
| 18 | Three and a half years ago I described my experience of a meeting I attended for briefing on the brave new world of budget holding , the wild card of the recently published NHS Review . |
| 19 | It will be within the memory of the House — although the memories of Conservative Members are probably as blank as Conservative Benches — that about five and a half years ago the right Hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) when he was the Secretary of State for Transport implemented a very novel idea . |
| 20 | The Royal Bank branch opened in the town just two and a half years ago . |
| 21 | That was three and a half years ago . |
| 22 | Employees who first went through the Heartwatch programme around two and a half years ago will soon be recalled for another assessment . |
| 23 | The Advanced Courses Development Programme Central Support Unit was established on a short term basis just over two and a half years ago with the task of co-ordinating the development of the new system of advanced courses . |
| 24 | She saw now that his tough appearance , which had so overwhelmed her five and a half years ago , had then been tempered by his youth . |
| 25 | While the reduction in price rises is very welcome — taking us back to where we were three and a half years ago — does my right hon. Friend recognise the irony that , as a result , current interest rates — the price of money — are , in real terms , at an all-time high ? |
| 26 | I do not expect much joy from the Minister tonight , but I give warning that , for the time I remain on these Benches , with the label on which I came here eight and a half years ago — as a Labour Member of Parliament , albeit a Member who has a label beneath his name on the TV as an expelled Labour Member — I shall bring before the House the necessary measures not just to talk about the death of the poll tax but to bury it once and for all . |
| 27 | Camel Lairds is now owned by B S E L , who two and a half years ago announced the run down of Camel Lairds unless another buyer was found . |
| 28 | Two and a half years ago Camel Laird started a campaign to gain access to the intervention funding and because of the total lack of any sort of industrial policy by this government , and their refusal to support the Camel Laird application to the E E C , next month will see the closure of Camel Lairds which will lead to a loss of skills that amounts almost to a criminal act on the part of this government , who seem prepared to allow this country to become a skill-free zone in order to drive down wages and conditions to a rate comparable with some Third World countries . |
| 29 | ‘ Well in September eighteen and a half years ago , ’ I thought for a moment , ‘ I had just finished my exams . |
| 30 | Some four and a half years ago when I was elected as a branch secretary of a fairly substantial branch in the Birmingham Region , I had two hours with the then finance officer and he said , well it did n't last the two hours , and he said er , well you know all there is to know now , about how to run this branch . |