Example sentences of "at the [noun sg] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you look at the moon half of it will be in light half of it will be in dark you will see a moon which looks like half a moon . |
| 2 | ‘ We arrived at the hotel half an hour before our appointment . |
| 3 | At the bar half a dozen very grey old men sit and grimace at each other , saying absolutely nothing . |
| 4 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |
| 5 | Rae Boxall was Border 's only representative at the Fleet Half Marathon run over a new two-lap course . |
| 6 | At the moment half a dozen vacant posts are filled a year . |
| 7 | At the time half the city 's school boards were distracted by criminal investigations — into how a grand piano went home with a board member , how their election hand-outs came to be printed by school members on school presses , why others dealt drugs and what exactly was the price of a promotion ( $10,000 could get you a deputy principalship in the Bronx ) . |