Example sentences of "[adv] a half [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus a half of lone women aged 60–4 receive income from occupational schemes compared with only a third of those aged 75 and over . |
| 2 | Nearly a half of the land area of the UK is designated under the EEC Less Favoured Areas Directive ( 75/268 ) , almost all of it upland . |
| 3 | Nearly a half of all 3-year-old boys were bedwetting more than twice a week while 30 per cent of girls were . |
| 4 | He would no more have thought of behaving as Harold Macmillan did in 1962 , and dismissing nearly a half of them as though they were junior executives in an ailing company , than it would have occurred to him to divorce his wife and marry one of his walking companions . |
| 5 | Thus , with only minimal slum clearance , housing overcrowding ( percentage of persons living at more than two per room ) declined by nearly a half in the 1920s from 35 to 24% . |
| 6 | Even worse hit was Nissan , with September sales down by nearly a half from 11,871 to 6058 . |
| 7 | We find we do n't waste spray either ; there 's often a half to a quarter inch of spray left in bottom of the container with conventional pouring . ’ |
| 8 | During October the value of the currency fell by almost a half on the free market , to $1.00=12.7 cruzados , prompting police intervention in some exchange bureaus . |
| 9 | Q3 losses down by almost a half at $2.4m produced a deficit $14.8m lower at $5.2m . |
| 10 | Slips , trips and falls accounted for almost a half of all major injuries while injuries resulting from exposure to harmful substances in the chemical industry ( 15.8 per cent ) were , not surprisingly , significantly higher than in the manufacturing industry as a whole ( 5.5 per cent ) . |
| 11 | Q3 underwriting loss $53m lower at $28.3m produced deficit down almost a half from $259.7m to $133.1m as remedial action proved increasingly effective . |
| 12 | With losses in the fourth quarter of $40.1m lower at $42.1m ( 1991 : $82.2m loss ) the UK underwriting deficit at the full year was reduced by almost a half from $341.9m to $175.2m as action on rates and operating costs proved increasingly effective . |