Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you can measure the angle pretty accurately on that to s to within say half a degree and have its tan . |
| 2 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 3 | Having failed to complete the flute music for De Jean , he had only received half the commission fee , a fact he tried to disguise by claiming that life in Mannheim was very expensive . |
| 4 | I thought I put it over there , erm I would only want half of these potatoes , would you manage those ? |
| 5 | He is very busy , and can only spare half an hour . |
| 6 | I spent a long time diving frantically after them , jamming the sheet at a bunch only to see half of them streaking out the other end , and I might have gone on indefinitely had I not felt a gentle touch on my arm . |
| 7 | It was on the agenda and at seven o'clock the at night they eh they adjourned the meeting cos they only got half way through the agenda |
| 8 | considering we only got half the |
| 9 | This is why you 're only seeing half the Winchess program . |
| 10 | Thus a subadult can only deliver half the goods in any exchange ; to avoid being short-changed , a large snail should avoid a subadult 's advances unless no older snail is on offer . |
| 11 | I only eat half , I only eat half |
| 12 | I only eat half , I only eat half |
| 13 | Now what it is actually is a idea that part of our research and development actually engages the customer so that in the stores it 's very difficult to experiment in say half a dozen when the national press is out there every week making an offer that you do n't carry by definition like that |
| 14 | Having resolved this dispute he became involved in long battles over his rights and tithes from the manors , for in 1256 , he is complaining that his rents and profits were so small , scarcely amounting to forty marks a year , being only enough to meet half his expenses . |
| 15 | This was all happening half a century ago , before the invention of the aqualung . |
| 16 | " So has half the city … that gets you nowhere … " |
| 17 | The roof-rack alone carried half a ton of water , fuel and spares , and the Land Rover was fully loaded inside to the extent that the leaf springs were flattened . |
| 18 | Maybe we 'd only do half an hour before sloping off but , bit by bit , we were able to put a set together . |
| 19 | It may be necessary to stamp the boot more firmly when using French technique on harder slopes , but it is important that the edge of the boot is n't kicked in as it would be when not wearing crampons , as this only uses half the available points . |
| 20 | Tom sat with his shirt-sleeves rolled up , the beads of sweat trickling down the sides of his ruddy face while Willie continued to shiver , managing only to drink half a cup of tea and eat a small piece of bread . |
| 21 | ‘ I only played half the games yet we were never out of the top five and qualified for Europe . |
| 22 | The problem is that when I try to play games under Windows , such as the Winchess program on November 's Mega Disk , I can only see half of the screen . |
| 23 | We 've only got half a side and we need you . |
| 24 | I 'd only got half way and I heard the row going on , so I cut across and met them . |
| 25 | When life is hectic and you 've only got half an hour in the evening to snatch a meal , a heartwarming bowl of Campbell 's condensed soup with some crusty bread makes an ideal supper . |
| 26 | Offspring A looks at it differently , because offspring A says , my sibling B has only got half my genes , therefore I will make sacrifices for B , wherever B R and greater than C as we saw . |
| 27 | Then I 've only got half an hour and I wan na go through my tap . |
| 28 | You 've only got half a mug of coffee . |
| 29 | well I do n't know , I suppose they sort of well , they the same time paint work and they go thundering down the corridor and go charging in there and , oh back at training on there you know come on , come on we 've only got half an hour |
| 30 | I 've only got half . |