Example sentences of "have been [adv] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road . |
| 2 | There ca n't have been above half a dozen universities teaching drama and Bristol was the only one that was really reputed then . |
| 3 | If the original figures totalled 120,000 men of military age , together with 100 professional soldiers , the entire population would have been nearly half a million , which again tallies well with other indications in the text . |
| 4 | Later , two men took me into a corner and fired questions at me for what seemed like ages , but can only have been about half an hour . |
| 5 | Must have been about half past nine . |
| 6 | The fare seems to have been about half the Third Class rate . |
| 7 | The rate seems to have been about half that of an ordinary return and was perhaps a day ticket , although no mention of that condition is made . |
| 8 | Alice Pell — who for two years said she ate , slept and breathed the 1964 pie and had been up half the night cooking it — was there happily serving up the 1988 one . |
| 9 | He had been up half the previous night upon a quite different case , and all this night upon this , which had only just become a case , and his , after all . |
| 10 | They had been about half way through when the message had come from the District Chief . |
| 11 | Long ago , Miranda had realized that sexual involvement with Adam could only complicate her life , but she had been only half awake and off guard when he made his move . |
| 12 | So far , Melissa had been only half listening . |
| 13 | And I opened the door and let him in and he was telling me I 've been here half an hour trying to get in . |
| 14 | There she blows , it 's your mama hello , yeah we 've been up half er , since half past , about eight o'clock yeah , we 'll be round at nine o'clock , okay , bye . |
| 15 | ‘ There have been about half a dozen desperate letters over the years . |
| 16 | Since then , there have been about half a dozen glitzy launches — featuring among others , the Home Secretary grinning into the television cameras , telling us that something was going to be done some time . |
| 17 | He 's been home at , it 's been about half past six evening . |
| 18 | you know when Les , oh she says there 's been about half a dozen people at that paint shop , sends chops and changes she said she said , she said I have n't lived there for three and a half years |