Example sentences of "after half " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , after half an hour prowling round the kitchen , the dog — Rudy — came over to me . |
| 2 | After half an hour in each case , the mother was released to join her infant and the accompanying male . |
| 3 | Wilson said it all when he said ‘ after half a century of democratic advance , the whole process has ground to a halt with a fourteenth earl ’ . |
| 4 | Poland did more than enough to win in every respect except finishing and must have regretted Dariusz Dziekanowski 's failure to beat Shiton with a header after half an hour . |
| 5 | After half an hour the bus started and moved us seventy metres , to the nearest plane , the one we could have walked to , with less effort and staying warmer . |
| 6 | After half an hour the gathering breaks up and the recruits escort their visitors off to lunch , or on a tour of camp for yet more photographs . |
| 7 | Getting in after half past three to get up again at six o'clock is no fun . |
| 8 | We returned after half an hour , the three men behind frozen and miserable . |
| 9 | After half a mile he decided to turn off the embankment and walk up the side of the next field and along the path at the top of it , following the horses whom he could still see in the distance . |
| 10 | After half an hour 's question-and-answer , Mr Yeltsin suddenly began reading from a prepared text : |
| 11 | After half a century of rejection by the Arab world , Israelis have reason to doubt whether handing back the territories they captured in 1967 would make any lasting difference to Arab attitudes . |
| 12 | After half an hour the first English injury occurred , Andy Lloyd going into the record books as the possessor of the briefest of all Test careers . |
| 13 | So I let her just pass , and said , ‘ Oh , darling , I am looking for a new ‘ element ’ … ’ ; and after half an hour the manager came back to me and said that she was sitting upstairs weeping . |
| 14 | Then after half a year we get the tapes and they go back and we say that something may have to be changed . |
| 15 | Although differences in wealth were a potential threat to lineage welfare systems the recusants on this occasion did not want to challenge the shaikh 's authority , at least not on these grounds , and after half an hour 's discussion they paid up . |
| 16 | At that stage Orrell , though without Heslop , who retired with badly bruised ribs after half an hour , looked set for another useful win . |
| 17 | With the most impressive efficiency and a phone call to Tucson , the American Express Office in Avenida del Sol issued me with a fresh set after half an hour 's verification : necessary , Ian told me , because there are so many freeloaders who keep on going by selling their cheques and claiming they have been stolen . |
| 18 | After half a century , the Hashemite adventure in Palestine seems to be drawing to its close . |
| 19 | After half a minute 's silence she added that her life in the pensione was nevertheless temporary as she hoped to gain a full-time position in a private school shortly and accommodation was provided with this particular job . |
| 20 | A short distance up the road from the Hill Inn , a bridleway turns off to the right and , with Ingleborough looming directly in front , passes along an easy terrace to reach a gate in a cross-wall after half a mile . |
| 21 | After half an hour , flesh-pink dunes , perhaps a hundred feet high , appeared several miles ahead . |
| 22 | Somehow , after half an hour , I was at the top looking back at the sign which warned ‘ Rapide Descente 300 metres ’ . |
| 23 | After half an hour , when the drone of an engine approached from behind , I had to bring every muscle into play to maintain a normal walk . |
| 24 | The Land Rover turned right and after half a mile disappeared under spinach-green palms . |
| 25 | They equalised after half an hour and also went close on more than one occasion . |
| 26 | After half an hour I was still waiting , so I gave him an experimental pull and the hook came back minus the barbel . |
| 27 | He scored our equaliser with a hard , low shot from Harry 's cross after half an hour ; headed our second from Clarke 's centre six minutes after half-time and pressurised Jarvie , the Norwich goalkeeper , into conceding a third ( which was subsequently credited to Simpson ) to sew up the match for Palace . |
| 28 | After half an hour on the bed in the dry heat he was really enjoying himself and was perspiring profusely . |
| 29 | Kitcher gives a good example of how a theory becomes accepted by the generality of scientists : Alfred Wegener 's theory of continental drift achieved acceptance after half a century of intermittent discussion only when the concept of plate tectonics provided an acceptable mechanism . |
| 30 | ‘ Reunited after half a century ! |