Example sentences of "[conj] about half [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talks on the issue with the Slovak government proved inconclusive , however , with the latter estimating that " even with the best will " Austria had only the capacity to deliver a maximum of 400 MW , or about half of the unit 's output . |
| 2 | Mr Matthews reckons that about half of the banks ' retained earnings comes from securities gains . |
| 3 | The ministry of labour suspects that about half of the unemployed have indeed been laid off , but other evidence suggests that at least in some parts of the country the proportion is much lower . |
| 4 | When Nick Davies and Mike Brooke placed 10 g-sized model ‘ reed warbler ’ cuckoo 's eggs in reed warbler nests , they found that about half of them were ejected , whereas none of the model 3 g normal-sized ones were . |
| 5 | The old process of commuting death sentences also remained in effect , and the result of these arrangements was that about half of all eighteenth-century felons were transported , so that about 30,000 were sent to North America in the next 60 years . |
| 6 | Research in 1970 on NILTs showed that about half of claimants do not attend the hearing and that representation was present only in one in five cases ( Bell et al. , 1974 ) . |
| 7 | One study showed that about half of teenage mothers did not go to the antenatal clinic until the third or fourth month , almost one in five had waited until the fifth month of pregnancy , and a few did not go at all . |
| 8 | The present superintendent estimated at this time that about half of all girls coming there had never really had any home life , or had been in care , and believed that this cycle would repeat itself : " as high as 85 per cent of these babies , it 's going to happen to them . |
| 9 | Tests have shown that about half of the traditional folk remedies of such areas have pharmaceutical potential . |
| 10 | It is claimed that about half of the almost 4,000 senior management posts in companies controlled directly or indirectly by INI were ‘ superfluous sinecures ’ ( Graham 1985 : 97 ) , available for distribution as political favours . |
| 11 | When we asked staff to look closely at these figures , it turned out that about half in each case , 5% ( June ) and 45 ( November ) , were what the staff would classify as ‘ real truants ’ . |
| 12 | and I said well your be bored , no I wo n't , and about half past eight , which I thought well we should be finishing by now , he said well are n't we going ? |
| 13 | Nearly threequarters of firewood and about half of the dung in urban India is purchased . |
| 14 | Aldo Ciccolini made six LPs of Satie piano music and about half of these recordings have been re-issued on a ‘ Rouge et Noir ’ set . |
| 15 | Understandably , perhaps , the novelty of a new event in the school 's weekly calendar caused quite a stir , and about half of the school ( the younger , more excitable half ) arrived at the sports hall early , before the supervising teachers had arrived from their early morning staff briefing . |
| 16 | The National Association for Gifted Children says two to five per cent of the population is highly able , and about half of one per cent are exceptionally gifted . |
| 17 | Now , virtually all of our poultry products and about half of our milk and red meat come from animals mass-produced in huge factory-like systems . |
| 18 | It seems that the police record about two-thirds of the property crime that comes to their attention , and about half of the violent crime . |
| 19 | Comparison of the C-terminal regions of DRP and the dystrophins ( Fig. 2 ) shows that this region is highly conserved with an 80 per cent exact match and about half of the remaining residues conserved . |
| 20 | Yet , although the excavations began in 1967 and about half of the paintings have been on exhibition in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens since the early 1970s , the other half have been neither exhibited nor published . |
| 21 | About two-thirds of the mothers in this book were at school or further education college when they became pregnant , and about half of these were under sixteen . |
| 22 | Of the 50,000 red deer shot annually in Scotland , only 30 per cent are shot for sport and about half of these by paying clients . |
| 23 | Ha about half of you thought that was a good thing and about half of you thought it was a bad thing . |
| 24 | she does n't finish work until about half past five |
| 25 | Right and then get them down there , the machine wo n't be ready until about half past nine . |
| 26 | But about half of these helpers will never breed . |
| 27 | But about half of the 200,000 people who fall into either of those categories go on to full-time education and become entitled to student relief of the community charge . |
| 28 | But about half of US R and D was financed by the federal government , 80 per cent of which went for space and military purposes . |
| 29 | When about half of them were out , Vern said , ‘ Right . |
| 30 | The onset of the disease is very gradual and breathlessness only becomes troublesome when about half of the lung has been destroyed . |