Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] by half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sales of traditional industrial life insurance policies plunged by half , but there has been a growth in endowment policies . |
| 2 | Although the next Jupiter probes , called Galileo , will go ahead at a cost of £600 million , the next probes to Venus have had their budget slashed by half , to only £200 million . |
| 3 | The two pictures in Fig. 22.5 show the same flow at times separated by half an oscillation period . |
| 4 | oil/water sludges cut by half |
| 5 | Mr Banham warned an Association of Metropolitan Authorities conference in London yesterday : ‘ There may well be half a million furious business people , either with severely disappointed expectations because they expected to see their rate bills cut by half , or facing a succession of real increases of 20 per cent in their annual rates bills . |
| 6 | Gross margins improved by half a point to 30.3% . |
| 7 | HP PROFITS SLASHED BY HALF |
| 8 | ‘ When we produced cakes which were n't coloured yellow , our sales dropped by half . |
| 9 | As a rule of thumb , if the growth rate in industrial economies falls by one percentage point , the export growth of all developing countries will be I h points lower , and their GNP growth cut by half a point . |
| 10 | • Dusit Hotels and Resorts , Thailand ( eight hotels ) : has planted one tree for each of its hotel rooms , separates and recycles waste , uses unbleached and undyed cotton for sheets and towels in new hotels , has installed silver reflects , lowering the number of light bulbs used by half ; uses solar panels for hot water supply , has fitted water flow regulators in taps and showers and has introduces a ‘ wet-down , soap-up and rinse-off ’ campaign to promote water conservation , sponsors environmental seminars and is now initiating a ‘ green wing ’ scheme — a wing of guest rooms in every hotel converted to an eco-friendly environment , to be monitored over two years to see how energy consumption compares with standard rooms . |
| 11 | , the large figures represent thousands of feet , the small ones hundreds of feet , and taken together they give the height above sea level of the highest known feature ( including terrain and obstacles ) in the quadrangle bounded by half degree lines of latitude and longitude |
| 12 | That shadowy world of small rooms visited by regret , of dim streets crossed by half familiar figures , of meadows steeped in yearning , beckoned to me . |
| 13 | Thus , in 1614 James I , believing that he was making presents more valuable than his ambassadors at foreign courts were receiving , ordered that in future the French and Spanish resident ambassadors , who had hitherto been given 4,000 ounces of plate on their departure , should in future receive only half as much and that the representatives of lesser states should also have their customary allowance cut by half . |
| 14 | Once unemployed , redundancy payments were the only monies received by half the women interviewed , because they were ineligible for unemployment benefit . |
| 15 | One could argue that the similarity is coincidental ; alternatively , one could claim that similar conditions have evoked a similar response to two events separated by half a century . |