Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] about half " in BNC.
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| 1 | The twin citizens ' movements , Civic Forum in the Czech Lands and Public Against Violence ( PAV ) in Slovakia , emerged as the clear winners with about half the total votes cast ; there was a turnout of 96.7 per cent of the electorate of 11,247,000 . |
| 2 | Digital Instruments still relies on universities and research institutes for about half of its sales . |
| 3 | Nowadays , Britain relies on imports for about half its consumption of tin . |
| 4 | The first REM sleep period is usually shorter than the subsequent ones — about fifteen minutes in adults , as against later periods of about half an hour . |
| 5 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 6 | For the United States , this has been part of its purpose as an aspect of counter-insurgency policy : to prevent the mass of the population defecting to the FMLN and its allies , and to deal with the social and economic costs of about half a million displaced persons . |
| 7 | A recent analysis from Jones Lang Wootton shows that demand for business space is still growing faster in the south east than in other regions with about half of the firms surveyed looking for premises outside London . |
| 8 | Last week the Abbey National , Halifax and Bradford & Bingley building societies lifted their fixed rate mortgage rates by about half a point . |
| 9 | The markets have already pushed up rates by about half a point in anticipation of a Tory defeat . |
| 10 | In use , VR1 will be adjusted so that with no music playing , the l.e.d. glows with about half its normal brightness . |
| 11 | Temperate forests--including deciduous , coniferous , mixed and mountain forests--account for about half of the earth 's forest cover . |
| 12 | The Church Commissioners , who supply parishes with about half their funds , have had to cut their contribution by about 20 per cent . |
| 13 | Would you mind having the boys for about half an hour because I would like to get Bryony 's hair cut . |
| 14 | Commercial local radio stations rely on national advertising campaigns for about half of their revenue , and on local campaigns for the other half . |
| 15 | Generally , this insurance is organized by a leading merchant bank which will sub-contract a proportion of the insurance to other sub-underwriters for about half of the fee . |
| 16 | Researchers in Birmingham and Aarhus in Denmark have found a protein called LMP , produced by the virus and thought to be involved in the cancer , in cells from about half of a sample of 84 tumours from patients with Hodgkin 's disease . |