Example sentences of "[noun] by [adv] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean what I 'd like to do to be , to be honest , I do n't know if we will do is er be at er , at er Borg by about half four , five o'clock |
| 2 | The Centre Party , led by Esko Aho , increased its share of the vote by nearly half to 24.8 per cent and its seat total by nearly one-third to 55 . |
| 3 | Right , well we want to make sure that you can get out to lunch sort of by , that 's running a bit fast that clock , we 'd like to get you out to lunch by about half past twelve otherwise you 'll end up being late do n't you with all the other people |
| 4 | As eventually published , the proposals make no differentiation between fuels , and raise the ceiling by over half to 650 mg per cubic metre . |
| 5 | so it gets back in town by about half past ? |
| 6 | Daak said , pre-empting Defries by about half a second . |
| 7 | He gradually built himself up to a third championship in 1984 , when he emerged champion by just half a point from his McLaren team-mate Alain Prost in one of the sport 's closest battles . |
| 8 | Longer prose quotations are indented as a whole by about half an inch from the left margin of the rest of the text , and should not have quotation marks . |
| 9 | After the huge rise in German slaughterings and consequent drop in price at the end of last year following reunification , east Germany cut its pig herd by almost half in six months . |
| 10 | Last week the Abbey National , Halifax and Bradford & Bingley building societies lifted their fixed rate mortgage rates by about half a point . |
| 11 | The markets have already pushed up rates by about half a point in anticipation of a Tory defeat . |
| 12 | With bookings down dramatically in reaction to the Gulf war , TWA is to cut European flights by nearly half and lay off 2,500 people . |
| 13 | This particular occasion was on a Sunday , and after dinner he had reduced a full bottle of the golden liquid by almost half . |
| 14 | Britain has 57 resident native butterflies , which are joined in the summer by around half a dozen migratory species : |
| 15 | Yet , despite increasing their number by almost half and achieving this reclassification in one speedy stroke , the CIVC was curiously quiet about it . |
| 16 | ‘ It is not the resource of money we specifically need , indeed we cut our training programme budget last year by almost half , as we did not have the staff employed to be able to spare enough of them to take part in training sessions . |
| 17 | I said where did you get the tarmac from ? , been up London about , on his way to London by about half past four he said well there 's , there 's , three tarmac places , basically he people like that |
| 18 | Hence the number of men in private sector schemes increased dramatically , by 3 million between 1956 and 1967 , but among women by only half a million ( Government Actuary , 1981 , p. 6 ) . |
| 19 | The Exchequer would pay 5 per cent on the new stock and would have reduced its service cost by almost half . |
| 20 | TWA is heavily in debt and is slashing its European services by almost half . |
| 21 | My right leg remained shorter than my left by about half an inch . |