Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [adv] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | The half-field measures should be approximately half of the whole- field one . |
| 2 | Your first offer should be about half what the merchant asks and you should beat him down from there . ’ |
| 3 | Do n't you reckon it feels like it should be about half three ? |
| 4 | As a rule of thumb , the second week after the race should be only half your normal mileage , and the third week almost back to normal . |
| 5 | Some of them must be near half your age . |
| 6 | ‘ There must be about half a pound of sugar in that pot . ’ |
| 7 | No , it , it 's , it , it , it 's coloured like a fire , fire , fire engine red and all the other things , but it , it 's a commercial vehicle a roll-on roll-off type of vehicle , which you can buy commercially and , and adapt for Fire Service use , and there 's erm I should think there must be about half a dozen pods now , erm at High Wootton , in fact police services are using it , Thames Valley Police I remember coming up here to , to take the idea back , erm I saw yesterday at Hungerford , er the police there going with their pods to , |
| 8 | We 'll be up half the night . ’ |
| 9 | and they 'll be here half an hour or three quarters of an hour , he smoked four cigarettes , now it takes all day and all night to get rid of them fumes of his cigarettes |
| 10 | Yeah and by the time you got home , it 'll be about half past three |
| 11 | two lots of soup and there 'll be , it wo n't be a full bowl for you tomorrow , but there 'll be about half a bowl unless you want it now ? |
| 12 | To avoid losing what could be over half a million lost business opportunities each year telephone training consultants , Teleconomy , were engaged to help us provide a more effective service . |
| 13 | Applying this variant would reduce the scatter at the high end , since the values of log ( 1/n 2 ) would be approximately half those of log ( 1/n ) , but the scatter is still too large to permit an unequivocal statement that the data fits a Lotka distribution ) . |
| 14 | Applying this variant would reduce the scatter at the high end , since the values of log ( 1/n ) would be approximately half those of log ( 1/n ) , but the scatter is still too large to permit an unequivocal statement that the data fits a Lotka distribution ) . |
| 15 | No I do n't know why the default is n't 500 ( which would be exactly half a second ) either . |
| 16 | Although it was only ten miles direct , it would be fully half that again by the route planned ; and they would be able to go only very slowly , in the darkness . |
| 17 | Erm children 's pensions they would be half the widow 's or widower 's pension and they 're payable for dependant children up to the age of seventeen and for children who are in full time erm higher education and for one child the payment would be actually half the widow 's or the widower 's pension . |
| 18 | She would be only half alive without him . |
| 19 | It was expected that the harvest reaching the shops would be only half that of 1990 . |
| 20 | And er the ones out of the control room they managed to get down that stage we would be about half an hour after it , after the initial blast . |
| 21 | The deficit of DKr2,800 million would be about half that for the previous year . |
| 22 | The amount of lead will be approximately half the bank angle . |
| 23 | Now you will see from your point of view the moon will be will be about half it will be it will be more more than that I would think . |
| 24 | Tomorrow , May 21 , at a few minutes before six in the evening it will be precisely half a century since Wellington DV841 came down over the County Durham village of Roddymoor . |
| 25 | In place of the ‘ layer cake ’ of eight allied army corps lined up along what used to be West Germany 's eastern border , there will be maybe half as many . |