I can talk to my siblings and my niece about my personal life, but that's a whopping three people – two and a half, actually, since there's only so much you can tell a teenager.
Have a look at their web-site". How do you like that -- the British Army website I visited says seventeen and a half (actually, absurdly, it says "17.5")!
Sometimes, as in Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey's sonnet "The Soote Season", what looks like conventional thought and imagery for 13-and-a-half lines is actually a clever rhetorical trick to prepare you for the last half-line: he writes about how nice the spring is – then hits you with "and yet my sorrow springs".
Listening to Davies, I finally understood how profound an impact that four-and-a-half year ban had actually had.
All that takes a good minute, a minute-and-a-half when you're actually allowed 40 seconds.
After writing the first draft it would be another four-and-a-half, five years before actually making the film, so it was nice to take the story from a literary form into screenplay form and then over time allow the screenplay itself to evolve further and further away from the source material.
"Over the first four-and-a-half years of parenting, mothers actually enjoyed an overall reduction in parenting stress if they worked," reports TIME.
Fast forward two-and-a-half years, and we can actually see the profound impact of the introductions between leaders from the NYC Department of Education, the office of the Mayor, various philanthropists, and Think:Kids (see below) in New York City public schools -- it has all become real with remarkable speed.
Despite the fact that Patel agrees that the scars spurred his attack, the judge rejected the Crown's motion to have the murder considered a hate crime he was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to nine years in prison, only four-and-a-half of which he will actually serve.
We had a tweet yesterday talking about a four-hour delay when it was actually two-and-a-half hours.
Somehow, dazzled by the genuine magnificence of the Backstreet Boys' downbeat comeback single Incomplete (the music video for which featured the Boys walking away from a variety of near-death experiences; brilliant!), I decided that the just-OK accompanying album was worthy of a four-and-a-half star review – Christ, it might actually have been five.
