Example sentences of "within half " in BNC.
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| 1 | R was all very friendly and cosy , the hostel staff on first-name terms with everyone in the group within half an hour . |
| 2 | Arriving , triumphant , in Ulm in the late afternoon , I had within half an hour found the worst hotel I had been in in years , with the modest staff and a parking ticket to boot . |
| 3 | Young stays there until something happens : he might get a picture within half an hour , although he has hung around until 4 am . |
| 4 | The molten rock is within half a mile of the gates of Zafferana Etnea , a town of 7,000 people . |
| 5 | I would anticipated that we can film the whole sequence within half an hour and that we would make every effort not to disrupt the normal running of your business . |
| 6 | Which within half an hour they will not be , for I have them packaged and ready to be delivered into your hands to do with as you shall see fit . |
| 7 | Studies of food workers ' skin have shown die-off times within half an hour . |
| 8 | Within half an hour of breaking camp , I came over the brow of a hill — compacted earth with pockets of drifted sand . |
| 9 | Within half a century , 12 feet of the post was exposed , and in 1957 a new post was sunk to reveal the continuing story of the sinking surface level , which is now about 14 feet lower than it was in 1848 . |
| 10 | The barn was big and roomy , and they had always been able to play the noisiest games in it without fear of disturbing or upsetting anyone , for there was nobody living within half a mile of it . |
| 11 | ’ They all looked at me and suddenly , horror struck me : the two or three policemen normally along there had disappeared — had taken a prisoner along to the station — and there was n't another policeman within half a mile . |
| 12 | The sight of the brigade turning out to a call , pulled by magnificent black horses , drew every child within half a mile of the Works main gates when the warning hooter sounded . |
| 13 | The campus is within half a mile of the city centre . |
| 14 | The campus is within half a mile of the city centre . |
| 15 | A knowledge of the telescope 's direction will then give the positions of the sources typically to within half an arc minute . |
| 16 | ‘ If you mix the stuff with an absorption agent like DMSO and rub it into the skin it would get into the system within half an hour . |
| 17 | The hotel staff were wonderful , coping with the unusual load with quiet , efficient speed and within half an hour I was installed , my possessions absorbed into cupboards and a free-standing rail supplied to accommodate my surplus clothes . |
| 18 | Within half an hour he was back at the library . |
| 19 | ‘ Sleeping tablets will get you to sleep but can cause hangovers and a bleary feeling , and businessmen often have to be at meetings within half an hour of landing . |
| 20 | The rate for collection and delivery within half a mile of any part of the lines vary between 7 lb. for 3d. and 56 lb. for 7d . ’ |
| 21 | This raid , on Guernsey in the Channel Islands , by some 100 men from 3 Commando and No. 11 Independent Company ( sometimes referred to as No. 11 Commando ) was well rehearsed , and after last-minute changes of plan , literally within half an hour of setting out , the raiders boarded two destroyers to transfer to motorboats refuelled from the parent ships they accompanied . |
| 22 | ‘ But within half and hour I could not move at all and I went to hospital . |
| 23 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |
| 24 | There are a profusion of historic buildings to visit ; within half an hour 's drive you can visit Penshurst Place , a Tudor manor house ; Chartwell , once the home of Sir Winston Churchill ; Hever Castle , once the home of Anne Boleyn , and Leeds Castle . |
| 25 | Sandown Park , Worcester Park and Epsom racecourses and Brands Hatch motor racing circuit are all within half an hour 's drive . |
| 26 | Within half an hour 's drive from Fulford you can walk on the Cotswolds , or more immediately there are numerous footpaths and country lanes around the village . |
| 27 | Van Gelder left and returned within half a minute . |
| 28 | Within half a century of Anselm 's death the only traces of the once-active policy were to be found in the ecclesiastical calendar used by the church of Dublin , which had many peculiarities of Canterbury origin . |
| 29 | If the target lies within half the weapon 's range ( ie , 12″ ) the number rolled is the number of hits scored on the target . |
| 30 | Sit it on a hill and wait till the enemy is within half range and then let fly . |