Example sentences of "[v-ing] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | One set of interviews , with the literary editors of national newspapers , was carried out using half a dozen ‘ topic headings ’ simply to ensure that at each interview I covered the ground I had decided beforehand was important for my purpose . |
| 2 | Now , if everyone had an average-sized lawn which they cut weekly for eight months using half a litre of petrol at each session , they would still burn less than 4 gallons a year . |
| 3 | At certain times of the month and whatever , I could be using half a gram a day and towards the end of the month whatever money I had left went on It . |
| 4 | Altogether about 100 have been cast , using half a dozen basic formats , ranging in size from two to fifteen feet . |
| 5 | To finish it off I need to build a cover for the 4′ filter tank — this will be constructed using half inch plywood coated with G4 pond sealant . |
| 6 | Using half the remaining marzipan ( 225g/8oz ) , model a long tail and attach it to the back of the body , smoothing over the join with your fingers . |
| 7 | G. is pleased with the response at the company — not only do they report as soon as possible when they 've got a pollution , they let him know about the progress they make : ‘ I 've got them so well trained now they 'll be phoning half an hour before they have a discharge . ’ |
| 8 | The quarrel had started over something as petty as who could spit furthest after eating half a ginger biscuit . |
| 9 | Mr Young , though thinnish , had a habit of eating half his wife 's food as well as his own . |
| 10 | This , as any British climbers knows , involved quaffing gallons of warm beer the night before , eating half a pig and the produce of a hen house the next morning , then spraying the countryside with this heady mixture while approaching the crag . |
| 11 | I said my luxury when Martin was out was eating half a very large cream cake . |
| 12 | When I met Mike , he strolled into the office and apologised for bringing half a farm yard with him . |
| 13 | The women pointed out that many of the most able graduates were women and that it was shortsighted of the establishment simultaneously to be moaning about the lack of people at the top and disenfranchising half of medical graduates . |
| 14 | Sanctions can not possibly ‘ work ’ in the time he can allow for maintaining half a million men in combat readiness thousands of miles from home and for keeping his public opinion with him . |
| 15 | " You 're wasting half of them ! " |
| 16 | Anything , Richard thought , would be better than sawing half a man 's chest away . |
| 17 | ‘ I think it 's time we stopped poisoning half the land and concreting in the rest . ’ |
| 18 | CB is also most unlikely to reach its ambitious goal of generating half its earnings outside France by 1992 , despite having started 20 new businesses in Europe over the last few years . |
| 19 | And there , on the third step , upside down in the corner by the wall , was Bunty 's other sandal — dainty lacy white straps with the arched instep and the two-inch heel hanging half off . |
| 20 | Are these workmen outside of your house are they the ones with the er with the trousers hanging half way down their bum ? |
| 21 | Mrs Lewis told the opening of an inquest at Liverpool Coroners Court that she found her husband hanging half out of bed , frothing at the mouth , two days after the crash . |
| 22 | Between 1941 and 1947 , Rank 's companies were to be responsible for financing half the films made in Britain . |
| 23 | Bored with the formalities of mid-Victorian high society , often scornfully documented in her private diaries , she sought refuge in a form of neurasthenia and turned her hand to writing popular fiction , producing half a dozen still very readable novels which reflected her rebellious discontent with women 's role as second-class citizens in a world dominated by largely untalented men . |
| 24 | Indeed , the fall is so dramatic that for the NHS to maintain current nursing levels will require it cornering half of all available female school-leavers with good O-level results ( five higher grade O levels , or one A level ) . |
| 25 | Tied in with encouraging half year figures , Headland announced a £11m acquisition and its shares were temporarily suspended while an offer document is printed . |
| 26 | This is why you 're only seeing half the Winchess program . |
| 27 | There has been a feeling that they would compromise with Chelsea to the extent of accepting half the £22.85 million valuation . |
| 28 | On Feb. 20 an agreement with Germany first planned in April 1991 was officially finalized , forgiving half of Poland 's DM9,100 million ( about US$5,520 million ) debt to Germany and setting an 18-year repayment schedule for the rest . |
| 29 | It was this that had prevented me from resting half a day here or there , from starting late in the morning and from stopping early in the evening . |
| 30 | The latest , which has now been introduced on a voluntary basis , is that , instead of one of his A levels , a pupil may take two AS ( supplementary ) level examinations , demanding half the time each of a full A level . |