Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposal from National Wind Power is for 15 wind turbines , each 24 metres high , to be erected only half a mile from the park 's southern boundary on Kirkby Moor — a Site of Special Scientific Interest . |
| 2 | But to consider only the final selection examination , is to see only half the picture . |
| 3 | In 1811 most mule spinners could earn only half of their peak earnings ; even so this was in most cases more than the earnings of fully employed weavers . |
| 4 | Offices are still heated only half the day . |
| 5 | The current drug of choice is oxybutynin , which in divided daily doses of between 5 and 15 mg may improve symptoms in up to 70% of patients but will make only half of them continent . |
| 6 | He opposed the new clause because it would cover only half of the Scottish bus industry — that half which the Bill will privatise . |
| 7 | For the last two years , the city has received only half its average rainfall of four inches . |
| 8 | ‘ There would n't have been much point in fusing only half the lighting system , would there ? ’ |
| 9 | In spite of this , the new price equalled only half the real price of this vital commodity . |
| 10 | The Lancashire team , housed only half a dozen miles from Old Trafford , have slipped from grace after months of political unheaval following their last-gasp failure to beat Barnet to an automatic place in the Football League two years ago . |
| 11 | Twenty-one years after the end of the First World War the British people were subjected to a second war , which , while it produced only half as many British military casualties as the first , struck more radically at the lives of ordinary civilians . |
| 12 | General practitioners in Camden and Islington make only half the national annual average of clinic payment claims to the family health services authority . |
| 13 | May be I will eat only half of it . |
| 14 | The industrial economies ' share of world output may already have dropped below half . |
| 15 | For instance , 100 kilos of lavender yields almost 3 litres of essential oil , whereas 100 kilos of rose petals can yield only half a litre of oil . |
| 16 | A precedent was set last year , when Electrolux won an " ozone-friendly " fridge competition which required no chlorofluorocarbons and used only half the energy of conventional designs . |
| 17 | The Foundation would need only half the total area . |
| 18 | Membership of the NKLP was estimated at nearly 700,000 in a pyramidal structure at the base of which ‘ is an enormous mass of virtually illiterate farmers , numbering perhaps half a million , as well as about 180,000 uneducated factory workers ’ . |
| 19 | As for the penalty handed down by ICC match referee Conrad Hunte , Aqib Javed was generously spared a match suspension , having to find only half his match fee of around £275 , which is derisory in the contest of the player 's income from match bonuses etc . |
| 20 | That he 'd gone out to look for her on the road and across the clunch pit field , returning alone half an hour later . |
| 21 | In some HAs only half the referrals to district nursing services comes from GPs . |
| 22 | The neighbouring householder , however , earns only £15,000 — he lives in exactly the same sortof house , but has only half the income of his neighbour and , again , only one other person lives in the house , his non-working wife who brings in nothing . |
| 23 | Holligan , Liverpool 's British and Commonwealth light-welter champion , has won all his 18 contests , but has only half the experience of Rojas , who has lost 10 of his 39 bouts . |
| 24 | We began to ‘ talk ’ , though my ‘ kitchen Arabic ’ was only good enough to ply her with questions and to catch perhaps half of the answers . |
| 25 | Apart from the Kenco Medium Roast Coffee which has proved such a favourite with so many coffee drinkers for so long ; you can now choose new Kenco Light which contains only half the caffeine but still has all the great Kenco taste ; or Kenco Espresso if you prefer a rich , dark-tasting coffee , typical of the Continental Espresso-style coffee . |
| 26 | The council can fund only half of next year 's grants . |
| 27 | Tailors in 1814 were very much on a level in terms of real wages with 1795 , but in the intervening years had been significantly down on that level in eight years , and very seriously below it in 1800 and 1801 when their weekly wage would buy only half the quantity of bread it had purchased from 1777 to 1795 . |
| 28 | From here he could see the two talking men quite clearly , and he picked up various objects on display , looking at them quite interestedly , and keeping only half an eye on the scene outside . |
| 29 | Keeping only half of every gram is an act of will . |
| 30 | Accordingly when a pare of men went underground formerly , they made it a rule , to sleep out a candle , before they set about their work ; that is if their place of work was dry , they would lay themselves down and sleep , as long as a whole candle would continue burning ; and then rise up and work for two or three hours pretty briskly ; after that have a touch pipe , that is rest themselves for half an hour to smoke a pipe of tobacco , and so play and sleep away half their working time : but mining being more expensive than it formerly was , those idle customs are superseded by more labour and industry . |