Example sentences of "and a half [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ OK , nine and a half ponies Nine fifty an ounce . ’ |
| 2 | Sheila has lost three and a half pounds this week . |
| 3 | A melodramatic , almost operatic , intro slides into an average Morrissey-Marr number that is two and a half minutes long and a ton too light . |
| 4 | But that would be two and a half minutes each , roughly . |
| 5 | Through some judicious editing of the contributions of Shinehead and Teddy Pendergrass , Kaye managed to shoehorn the material into two CDs , utilising the maximum 74 and a half minutes available on both ( the excessive running time provided a convenient excuse for dispensing with the need for a vinyl format ) . |
| 6 | Through some judicious editing of the contributions of Shinehead and Teddy Pendergrass , Kaye managed to shoehorn the material into two CDs , utilising the maximum 74 and a half minutes available on both ( the excessive running time provided a convenient excuse for dispensing with the need for a vinyl format ) . |
| 7 | three and a half minutes short , in fact you did it in about eleven and a half minutes . |
| 8 | When the fishing boat sails for three and a half hours unclear |
| 9 | The opener , who hit 12 fours in an innings almost five and a half hours long , was eighth out and one of off-spinner Neil Smith 's six victims . |
| 10 | The opener , who hit 12 fours in an innings almost five and a half hours long , was eighth out and one of off-spinner Neil Smith 's six victims . |
| 11 | It takes two and a half hours each way . |
| 12 | Travel takes two and a half hours each way . |
| 13 | It would entail a coach trip of about two and a half hours each way . |
| 14 | Speaking at a meeting attended by some 400 people in the local village hall that continued for two and a half hours local primary teacher Donal O'Connor said children should not be used in future protests . |
| 15 | Someone earning £490 a week , which is about one and a half times average male earnings , would pay an extra £9 per week in national insurance contributions if the upper earnings limit was abolished . |
| 16 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what would be the weekly cost to someone on one and a half times male average earnings of abolition of the national insurance upper earnings limit . |
| 17 | Their volume of production was one and a half times greater , and they were engaged chiefly in clothing , woodwork , skins , and agricultural repairs . |
| 18 | A person 25 per cent over their normal weight range has a two and a half times greater chance of having a heart attack , hypertension , or a stroke . |
| 19 | And say three and a half times sixty . |
| 20 | The tax for a property in the highest band will be about two and a half times that for one in the lowest band . |
| 21 | Public spending in the USA is higher than in the UK ; the US spends nearly one and a half times that amount in addition on private medical benefits , yet health outcomes in the two countries are broadly comparable . |
| 22 | In the case of the Selby complex , the independent statistics are more than two and a half times higher . |
| 23 | ‘ We believe that the British Government must do more to oppose the job discrimination that has created unemployment levels two and a half times higher for Catholic workers than Protestant workers . |
| 24 | I 've got a large carrying case for an electronic organ keyboard er I want to sell , it 's it 'll take a keyboard erm forty one inches long by forty inches wide and four and a half inches deep and it 's all sort of shaped inside with the lining to the shape of the keyboard and nice strong box . |
| 25 | These are these are three and a half inches wide . |
| 26 | but he still , the curtain was supposed to be something like sixty one and a half inches one was about a sixty one and the other was about a sixty three one end , you know ? |
| 27 | Officers strutted in their brightest breacan-feiles ; the same length of a finer cloth , four and a half feet wide , held at the waist by a silver-buckled belt to fall double thickness , and the outside layer at the back drawn up over the left shoulder and pinned with a great silver brooch . |
| 28 | The Siberian crane stands four and a half feet tall , its brilliant white plumage offset by a blood-red beak , face and legs . |
| 29 | As I 'm six and a half feet tall , it 's difficult to get jeans to fit me . |
| 30 | That the son turned out to be all but six and a half feet tall at the age of thirteen and went through school and university wielding a subversive wit which catapulted him into the West End and the beginnings of real fame in his early twenties , seems almost in bad taste , very embarrassing indeed , certainly uncalled for and probably best left undiscovered . |