Example sentences of "[prep] perhaps half a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They trudged along the Overclyst road for perhaps half a mile , and then turned down a lane on the left . |
| 2 | They are in a smallish courtyard with parking space for perhaps half a dozen cars . |
| 3 | Vernon remained silent for perhaps half a minute . |
| 4 | It was increasingly argued that unnecessary State control of personal and community affairs was wrong in principle , serving merely to weaken the capacity of the individual to enhance life chances ; arguments not heard for perhaps half a century were rehearsed . |
| 5 | As the Guardian noted , the report gave the Energy Secretary , then Peter Walker , all he needed to ‘ initiate the family of perhaps half a dozen similar stations ’ . |
| 6 | Early in 1983 , a consensus seemed to be emerging among theorists using computer models of the atmosphere that this material , now spreading across the northern hemisphere , would lead to a cooling of perhaps half a degree Centigrade , with the peak effect occurring in the late summer of 1983 or the winter of 1983–84 . |
| 7 | His close-set eyes daily reviewed documents which would otherwise only be seen by perhaps half a dozen people — up to and including the President himself . |
| 8 | She could see that her hair had grown by perhaps half an inch . |