Example sentences of "of half [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bela Kadar , the minister of international economic relations , claims that Hungary has been the recipient of half of all recent foreign investment in Eastern Europe . |
| 2 | Such limitation on women 's powers cuts into all classes and races : it is a sad waste of half of our country 's potential ; but the government goes further — some groups of women are positively discriminated against . |
| 3 | Now in her midforties , she is an ex-addict who works in her chosen field out of emotional necessity — the Aids virus has claimed the lives of half of her community . |
| 4 | Meanwhile Dennis Peck , the erstwhile president of Interactive Systems Corp and the man who presided over the sale of half of it to SunSoft Inc , has joined Sequent Computer Systems Inc as senior vice president of marketing , a position that 's been open for over a year . |
| 5 | Convertible or non-convertible bonds up to the value of half of the stock capital may be issued . |
| 6 | The 14 group practices and five singlehanded practices identified by the sampling technique represented 66 or 16% of the 403 general practitioners responsible to Berkshire family health services authority , and the sample consisted of half of the claims for night visits from these doctors , a total of 1988 visits . |
| 7 | Er it 'd be sort of half of that . |
| 8 | He then took the pigeons south , and placed a drop of olive oil on the bills of half of them , and a drop of turpentine on the bills of the other half . |
| 9 | Yet , in a somewhat art-y place like Freud 's which recently displayed the photographic work of Jane Ralley , the solitary wild-eyed scribbler was not too out of place ; but then , judging by the subject of half of the photographs in the show , the owner could count on this crowd to retain its sophisticated bonhomie in the face of far more deliberate provocation . |
| 10 | By means of inserted trace statements the values delivered by halfMeas , i.e. a measure of half of the view area , have been obtained and are found to be consistent . |
| 11 | During negotiations Iraq proposed that it would recognize all of Kuwait 's land borders in return for full rights to Warba island and the lease of half of Bubiyan . |
| 12 | In the third and fourth years the course consists of half of the Geology and Geography Honours programmes with an interdisciplinary field project . |
| 13 | What then , is the bloody point of getting rid of half of them ? |
| 14 | One of those involved in compiling the report , Terence Lee of the University of Surrey , argued that recent Soviet legislation setting the maximum permitted dose of radiation as 0.5 rem above natural background level , was " absurdly low " , and set a dangerous precedent which , if followed by the UK , would compel the evacuation " of half of Cornwall " . |
| 15 | The situation is that in the current year , we 're saying we have a distribution of a specific grant which is ring fenced , roughly half of it came to us using er , S S A factors , standard standing assessment factors , and roughly , something of the order of half of it , came to us on the basis of one or two snapshots of what the D S S was spending in Shropshire in terms of supporting people in residential care . |
| 16 | When the donor makes a chargeable transfer ( eg on a gift to a discretionary trust ) he is chargeable to inheritance tax on the amount of the reduction in his estate consequent on the making of the gift of half of the tax rates contained in Sched 1 to the 1984 Act ( IHTA 1984 , s7(2) ) . |
| 17 | The Survey makes this point very clearly by showing that not far short of half of all defective items issued ( 42% ) were modern , 20th Century publications , a fact which underlines the danger of assuming that priority should automatically be given to the treatment of older material . |
| 18 | Trout tend to be in the order of half to three-quarters of a pound in weight and are great fun to catch . |
| 19 | They had both animals ready and saddled up in half an hour , which was as well , because five minutes later , on the stroke of half past seven , Lord Deverill himself arrived , accompanied by four couples of hounds . |
| 20 | Erm , then the erm , the insistence of the driver 's conductors was they did n't like the long periods of duty they erm , they wanted the new set up so I introduced what we call straight duties , narrowed the relief portion , so they did n't go home for a meal , they had about a half an hour off , so they were able to get their eight hour duty done in a shorter period and they 'd probably finish about two instead of half past three , four o'clock . |
| 21 | Yeah , it 's amazing , you get home take the dogs get them their food , have some tea , and it 's sort of half past eight you know . |
| 22 | ‘ The farmer and his wife who were selling it stood in front of this doorway upstairs , sort of half in the way , because it was n't too tidy . |
| 23 | You know the ones you have it tied , sort of half round your neck , you know . |