Sentence examples of "a half" in English
Three and a half hours have passed since he left.
Han pasado tres horas y media desde que se marchó.
Only after a century and a half of confusion was the royal authority restored.
Sólo después de un siglo y media confusión la autoridad real fue restaurada.
They drank tea with lemon, for his nagging cough, with his usual lump and a half of sugar.
Tomaron té con limón, debido a su persistente tos, que él endulzó con ese terrón y medio de azúcar, según su costumbre.
It took me about two and a half hours to dig a hole one meter in diameter and two meters in depth.
Me llevó unas dos horas y media excavar un hoyo de un metro de diámetro y dos de profundidad.
The surface of Jupiter is inhospitable with more than two and a half times Earth's gravity and a poisonous gas atmosphere.
La superficie de Júpiter es inhóspita, con una gravedad que es más de dos veces y media la de la Tierra y una atmósfera de gas tóxico.
In England the waiter asked us, "How much beer would you like, a half pint or a pint?" Having no idea how much that would be, we asked him to show us the glasses.
En Inglaterra el mesero nos preguntó, "¿Cuánta cerveza van a querer, media pinta o una pinta?". Sin tener idea de cuánto sería eso, le pedimos que nos mostrara los vasos.
It's funny how German can take a verb, cut it in half, and spread it over a five-clause sentence.
Es curioso cómo el alemán puede coger un verbo, partirlo en dos, y extenderlo por una oración de cinco proposiciones.
Five hundred soldiers were sent to the city, and less than half of them survived.
Quinientos soldados fueron enviados a la ciudad, sobreviviendo menos de la mitad de ellos.
Almost half the men in Great Britain regularly give chocolate to their partner, especially for their birthday.
Casi la mitad de los hombres en Gran Britania le regala regularmente chocolates a su pareja, sobretodo para su cumpleaños.
The Titanic's lifeboats only had enough space to carry about half of those on board.
Los botes salvavidas del Titanic solo tenían espacio suficiente para llevar a cerca de la mitad de los que iban a bordo.
We didn't know the box had holes in it. We lost half of the load along the way.
No sabíamos que la caja estaba agujereada. Perdimos la mitad de la carga a lo largo del camino.
The area of a triangle is half of the area of the rectangle with equivalent base and height.
El área de un triángulo es la mitad del área del rectángulo con base y altura equivalentes.
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