Example sentences of "[art] half [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the maximum extraction of grape juice or must was also set at one litre of juice per one and a half kilograms of grapes , this production limit could also be expressed as 7,500 kilograms per hectare . |
| 2 | There are just two and a half kilometres of railway in Lesotho . |
| 3 | It had , however , collected eight and a half tons of khat , the mild narcotic leaf on which Djibouti feeds like caterpillars on cabbage . |
| 4 | Two and a half tons of fish taken in last year 's event . |
| 5 | New pits were sunk at Dare ( 1870 ) and Bwllfa ( 1877 ) : by 1900 the four collieries of the Ocean Company were producing over a million and a half tons of coal annually , and many other pits had also been sunk profitably . |
| 6 | One and a half tons of prime Canadian Hereford and the pride of the Lowerhope herd . |
| 7 | He pushed the vital button which blasted twelve and a half tons of rock at the ARC Quarry near Colwell , Northumberland . |
| 8 | She fills the main space with ‘ Isthmus ’ , a tall copper box seven and a half metres in length and rising to the gallery 's ceiling . |
| 9 | A gain of 400 in the first amplifier/filter will then produce an output of almost two and a half volts from the total earth 's field vector , avoiding overload and permitting a peak-to-peak measurement by rotating the core . |
| 10 | ‘ Four thousand revs will give you 90 mph in the Formula First , ’ he said , ‘ and in a car which is one and a half inches off the ground , that will feel like 190 mph , so it should be plenty fast enough for today . ’ |
| 11 | Cones tend to come in two shapes — some , either cardboard or plastic , with a pointed top and others with a gap of about one to one and a half inches at the top . |
| 12 | The Basingstoke Canal at Claycart had around three inches of ice which led to the cancellation of the HBCAA Open and there was two and a half inches of ice on the Oxford Canal which led to the scrapping of the Banbury Open . |
| 13 | The start of the text is clearly signalled by a rubric about five and a half inches from the top edge of the roll : " " Hic incipit interludium de clerico et puella " " , " Here begins the interlude of the clerk and the girl " . |
| 14 | It consists of an upright cylinder containing a twelve-inch piston with rod two and a half inches in diameter . |
| 15 | X 19 ins. , two inches thick , with a hole in the middle about three and a half inches in diameter . |
| 16 | They were about an inch to one and a half inches in thickness and nearly two feet square . |
| 17 | The Oxford Canal , for example , was shortened by thirteen and a half miles between 1829 and 1834 . |
| 18 | Lowthorpe is a small elongated village , situated five miles northeast of Driffield , which stretches southwards for nearly three and a half miles across the plain of Holderness . |
| 19 | Here , you 'll be able to enjoy the benefits of Malia 's two and a half miles of sandy beach with its range of watersports , beach bars and main street of swinging nightlife . |
| 20 | Along the shore , two and a half miles of golden sands slip slowly into a warm , blue sea where visitors can swim , sail and wind-surf . |
| 21 | In another part of Oxford Circus , a station where three lines converge , where there are fourteen escalators , four and a half miles of passages and platforms and through which nearly 200,000 passengers pass each day , a man was taking photographs . |
| 22 | The hunt recently fenced off 6 and a half miles of the M40 to stop foxes getting onto it . |
| 23 | The hunt recently fenced off 6 and a half miles of the M40 to stop foxes getting onto it . |
| 24 | The traumatic experiences the men had already been through — the drama of the inrush of slurry , the knowledge that they were entombed , the foul air they had lived in for two days , and the threat of the gathering gas — meant that the half-mile walk wearing apparatus , and a further one and a half miles to the surface , would be a severe test of their remaining stamina and resolve . |
| 25 | The riders then trot the four and a half miles to the start , a sandstone post one mile north of the old Kiplingcotes railway station . |
| 26 | It once had a spire which , along with those at Ottringham and Patrington , helped to guide the mariners sailing on the river Humber some two and a half miles to the south . |
| 27 | Over the past 60 years these villages have developed into an area of suburbia covering four and a half miles to the west of the city of Hull . |
| 28 | Now the locals have to trek one and a half miles to the nearest one . |
| 29 | This added two and a half miles to their journey to work and involved another 15 minutes ' travelling time each way . |
| 30 | Thence it runs directly southwards for four and a half miles to Woodstock . |