HALF in Classic Quotes

1  More than a kilo and a half per adult corpse.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter V

2  Forty seconds on a six and a half hour flight.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VI

3  You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XVII

4  The experiment was tried, more than a century and a half ago.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XVI

5  The buildings of the Hounslow Feely Studio covered seven and a half hectares.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter IV

6  Not more than half a dozen people in the whole Centre had ever been inside a Savage Reservation.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VI

7  'Two hundred repetitions, twice a week from fourteen to sixteen and a half,' was all his comment.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VI

8  But, looking round, she saw that half a dozen twins were already on their feet and advancing down the ward.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XIV

9  Pilkington, at Mombasa, had produced individuals who were sexually mature at four and full grown at six and a half.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

10  The humming of the screws overhead dropped an octave and a half, back through wasp and hornet to bumble-bee, to cockchafer, to stag-beetle.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter IV

11  We slacken off the circulation when they're right way up, so that they're half starved, and double the flow of surrogate when they're upside down.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

12  Those three and a half hours of extra leisure were so far from being a source of happiness, that people felt constrained to take a holiday from them.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XVI

13  One circuit of the cellar at ground level, one on the first gallery, half on the second, and on the two hundred and sixty-seventh morning, daylight in the Decanting Room.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

14  Twenty-two years eight months and four days from that moment, a promising young Alpha-Minus administrator at Mwanza-Mwanza was to die of trypanosomiasis--the first case for over half a century.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XIII

15  Every two and a half minutes a bell and the screech of whistles announced the departure of one of the light monorail trains which carried the lower-caste golfers back from their separate course to the metropolis.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter V

16  Lenina remembered her first shock of fear and surprise; her speculations through half a wakeful hour; and then, under the influence of those endless repetitions, the gradual soothing of her mind, the soothing, the smoothing, the stealthy creeping of sleep.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter V

17  He walked across to the hotel, had a bath, a vibro-vac massage, and an electrolytic shave, listened in to the morning's news, looked in for half an hour on the televisor, ate a leisured luncheon, and at half-past two flew back with the octoroon to Malpais.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter IX