Sentence examples for half a street from inspiring English sources

One person, who asked to remain anonymous, says: "Where were the protests when they ploughed down half a street round the corner to make room for a Nobu?" referring to the exclusive restaurant famed for its black cod with miso (at £42, rather pricier than a three-quid bowl of Rice Krispies) that is due to open in early 2016.

The mother said, " … he does not like to walk even for half a street….

I could blame the fact that I had strayed from the safety of our road on a football innocently rolling away, bouncing off a kerb and over a road, or blown half a street in the breeze.

It is 3pm on a sunny afternoon in August and half-a-dozen street kids on scrambler bikes are gathered around the gates of the Chocolate Factory in a regenerating suburb of Chicago.

Pay typically accounts for half a Wall Street firm's revenues, twice the proportion in manufacturing.

Half a dozen street cats and their litters, fed and sheltered by my friends, played hide and seek in the undergrowth.

Parks officials agreed, but said resources were not available to respond to every complaint in a city with half a million street trees.

The first census, conducted in 1995, counted nearly half a million street trees in the city, out of an estimated total of five million trees, when parks and yards are included.

Then around three-and-a-half hours later, a street shooting in Tacoma, Washington, injured five more.

About three-and-a-half hours later, a street shooting among a group of teens in Humble, Texas, left four people injured.

ATMOSPHERE: Soothing, loungelike dining room half a floor below street level, where refined new American cuisine is served.