Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] about half " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technology requires less capital investment and about half the production time , and the panels are half the price , the company claims . |
| 2 | Nearly threequarters of firewood and about half of the dung in urban India is purchased . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | she does n't finish work until about half past five |
| 5 | The final creations weighed a mere ten kilograms , about the same as a top-class racing bike and about half the weight of most ATBs . |
| 6 | Building the form takes two sheets of 18mm Sterling board and about half a day . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Most women were more cautious and conscious about how they spent the household 's money but about half were just ‘ living from week to week ’ , struggling to meet their financial commitments with every penny of the weekly budget accounted for . |
| 9 | He was as surly and unprepossessing as his wife and about half her size . |
| 10 | Whisper it not at the British Heart Foundation , but we knew that , as well as the salt , into that dinner had gone a dozen eggs , a couple of pints of cream , half a pound of butter , a quarter-pound of sugar and about half a pint of Calvados . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Ha about half of you thought that was a good thing and about half of you thought it was a bad thing . |
| 13 | A corresponding survey , carried out in Sweden in 1981 , found that orientation courses had only been evaluated in 8 libraries of 34 , one-third of the libraries had evaluated courses in manual information retrieval and about half the libraries with courses in computerized information retrieval had carried out some form of evaluation . |
| 14 | 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 . |