Example sentences of "for half " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat for half an hour outside the dining room like a pickle in a jam factory . |
| 2 | He lay there dead , his blood soaking my shoulder for half an hour . |
| 3 | Cameron raked on for half an hour , making loose heaps up the middle of the field . |
| 4 | The Clapham accident of December 1988 , the first for half a century in Britain due to the failure of the signalling , appalled the public in demonstrating how poor morale and discipline were in a vital part of the service at a key point . |
| 5 | Rather than risk a clash between the Cha and Legislative Council models , China has opted to muddy the waters by indicating support for proposals unexpectedly advanced last month by Lo Tak-shing , of the New Hong Kong Alliance , for a ‘ bicameral ’ legislature , in which directly elected seats would account for half of a single house . |
| 6 | For half an hour or so she had Barbara Paulus , ranked 21st to Durie 's 102nd , chasing shadows as she won the first set 6-2 . |
| 7 | Hi-Tec hopes North America , which lifted sales and profits by 20 per cent , and Europe will account for half of group turnover by early 1991 . |
| 8 | The rest will do a nine-hour day — after which , I imagine , they will be seeing potatoes in their sleep and grabbing at phantom clods of earth for half the night . |
| 9 | A trip in a motorised open punt , with stripy red and white umbrellas at hand as shelter from the Belgian drizzle , is an enjoyable way to find your bearings , and at £2 for half an hour , offers a quick fix of what exactly hooks all these tourists . |
| 10 | For the separatists , IME offers escape from the system — political as well as economic — which has imprisoned their nation for half a century . |
| 11 | By bidding for half rather than all of LIN there should be no need for McCaw to seek additional funding from BT since its cash resources and existing lines of credit should cover the cost . |
| 12 | King : Sweet Emma , you remember far too well The jeers and cat-calls mingled with the praise When you did sing and dance for half an hour In your own TV show . |
| 13 | Here , as inmates with red-rimmed eyes and ash-grey faces barter items like a shirt or a spoon for half a bowl of soup , a nightmarish market economy is seen in operation . |
| 14 | Vern Clarke , 19 , a London Underground maintenance worker , caused the trial to be aborted , held up court proceedings for half a day and cost the taxpayer more than £7,000 . |
| 15 | ‘ The thought of being in one for a week and unconscious for half a day would n't have appealed to me very much . |
| 16 | A few doors away I watched for half an hour through a film of sunlit flour motes as a small , soft mass of dough was miraculously spun and flung out to cover six-foot squares of sacking by two whirling , wizened old men . |
| 17 | New methods will come , no doubt , with the fruition of that research which the Home Secretary has urged and supported ; but we can not even claim to be using existing methods , when 7,550 prisoners are sleeping tonight three in a cell , and when policies which , but for the war , would have been on the statute book in 1939 , and have already been on the statute book for half a generation , have hardly begun to be carried into effect for lack of premises . |
| 18 | So I went there and cornered her in the canteen and tried to chat her up for half an hour . |
| 19 | I was absolutely horrified at the number of flaws you could very quickly find in reading one of these papers for half an hour . |
| 20 | It was a quiet time and I would sit these fellows down for half an hour and take them through what they were doing . |
| 21 | As production increased farmers had a growing surplus over their household requirements and sold an increasing proportion of their crop , reaching 60 per cent in 1985 and in 1988 , and accounting for half of the national marketed production . |
| 22 | Once , at Milan airport , we were herded to the gate and corralled in an area almost big enough for half of us , then shifted to a bus with six seats and standing room for forty , in which the one hundred and twenty of us stood and waited for the idiot who always arrives twenty minutes late despite having been called ten times and being the subject of an Interpol missing persons search . |
| 23 | I sat in the cab for half an hour and then this fellow went off . |
| 24 | When you have been up for half an hour on a normal working day , how do you feel ? |
| 25 | For half the year , he would sleep at The Kilns . |
| 26 | You must go out on a starry night and walk about for half an hour trying to see the sky in terms of the old ( Ptolemaic ) cosmology . |
| 27 | A perfect way to serve them is in a tart of shortcrust pastry , mixed with three or four free-range eggs and plenty of sugar , and baked for half an hour or so in a medium-hot oven . |
| 28 | We have recently moved to an area of Norfolk that is infested with holiday homes : our village is rendered lifeless for half the year , and local people find it impossible to afford homes because prices have been forced up by the greater buying power of outsiders . |
| 29 | Order large Perrier and hiccup mournfully for half hour while fat bald man laments Nigel Lawson . |
| 30 | Private hospitals not owned by Bupa are reckoned to rely on patients who are insured by Bupa for half their business . |