Sentence examples for a half far from inspiring English sources

Madhur's own, meanwhile, as handed down from on high in The Essential Madhur Jaffrey, calls for them to be simmered for an hour and a half; far longer than the standard 20 30 minutes I find elsewhere.

Lani stays on the mile-and-a-half track far longer than his counterparts for a combination of galloping and walking.

Aside from "winning battles" in Afghanistan, he said, the creation of that force was "probably the most significant thing we've done in the last year-and-a-half as far as adjusting the Marine Corps for what people are now calling the new normal, which are these crises that are happening around the world".

That difference in distance often attracts runners from across the Channel who might consider 2,400 meters a furlong and a half too far this early in the season.

Or that Africa's rate of economic growth has, for more than a decade and a half, been far higher than Europe's.

Under the agreement, the United States will be allowed to store the information for three and a half years, far less than the Bush administration had originally sought.

As a result, one of the top-selling female groups of all time has to content itself with moving merely a million and a half (so far) copies of its new CD.

This place has its superlatives: the oldest capital in North America, closing in on seven centuries; the most elevated, at nearly a mile and a half; by far the most crowded, with 20 million souls.

The IPCC admitted that it was still unclear about the causes for the slowdown in climate change in the past 15 years, but insisted that the long-term trends were beyond doubt and that a decade and a half was far too short a period in which to draw any firm conclusions.

The embryonic growth rate averages 1.4 cm per month, and therefore the entire gestation period may last three and a half years, far longer than any other vertebrate.

All berkelium isotopes have a half-life far too short to be primordial.