Example sentences of "[adv] half [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You asked to go spot on half past two in Makepeace 's class today . |
| 2 | In 1988 43 per cent of single pensioners were living on incomes below half of the average and more than two in three of them were women . |
| 3 | For the quinquennium 1982–83 to 1986–87 , i.e. after the major phases of absorption of other large courses , it has remained just below half of the FTE students in the Polytechnic . |
| 4 | I would reckon I 'll be finished with Norman about ten o'clock it takes me an hour and a half to drive down half past eleven say I 'm in here about twelve o'clock right , cheers |
| 5 | You 'd put your hundred and twenty five thousand pounds down , you 'd also put down half of the jointly owned property because you could have dealt with that while you were alive and you 'll end up paying large amounts of inheritance tax . |
| 6 | Realizing that her tea was going cold , she gulped down half of it . |
| 7 | Furthermore half of the patients with some features of Crohn 's disease have been labelled as indeterminate colitis because the pathological features were not entirely diagnostic . |
| 8 | These will be large embanked areas , only half to one metre ( two or three feet ) above the road in most cases , with rounded corners and perhaps slightly hollowed centres . |
| 9 | The ferocity of ants in attack is a consequence of their haplodiploid sex determination : sisters in a brood are genetically identical with half of one another and half identical with the rest ( their fathers being haploid ) , so that , on average , they are 4 identical to sisters and only half to offspring . |
| 10 | He was standing on the edge of the group that included Flavia Sherman , Jacques and Paul Devraux and half-a-dozen Moi trackers , but his mind was only half on the hunt to come . |
| 11 | But if a system has a single definite history , the uncertainty principle leads to all sorts of paradoxes , like the particles being in two places at once or astronauts being only half on the moon . |
| 12 | Rain 's mind was only half on what he was saying . |
| 13 | Isabel nodded , although her mind was only half on the conversation . |
| 14 | When open , only half with width of the door projects into the room , but the whole contents of the cupboard can be seen at one glance . |
| 15 | Yet with any luck we shall have a dozen bold new hens to lay eggs for us next year - and even if only half of them manage to emulate their mothers in the matter of bringing up families , by mid-summer we shall be positively over-run . |
| 16 | Moreover , each patch has to be walked by two men : one providing cover for the other while he polices his beat , so that each spends only half of the shift on their particular area . |
| 17 | Confused data on peasant landownership and family size made it virtually impossible to make accurate assessments , so that for many provinces only half of the taxable land per head was in fact recorded in the tax lists . |
| 18 | The Belgian team ADR are to sue Greg Lemond after the American left them for their French rivals Z. Lemond , the Tour de France winner and world champion , was lured to Z in September for a record £3.5million fee , having served only half of his two-year contract with the Belgian team . |
| 19 | The Belgian team ADR are to sue Greg Lemond after the American left them for their French rivals Z. Lemond , the Tour de France winner and world champion , was lured to Z in September for a record £3.5million fee , having served only half of his two-year contract with the Belgian team . |
| 20 | On pay , the bad old tradition of linking monthly wage rises to the government estimate of monthly inflation was preserved — with the difference that only half of March 's 80% decline in the value of pay-packets will be made up in April . |
| 21 | That will mean $3 billion-4 billion , only half of which he plans to get from further cost-cutting . |
| 22 | But then they would have to tell shareholders why only half of the consolidated profits of MEPC comes from the 700 properties it has assembled — with the other half provided by the 20 or so Oldham properties . |
| 23 | Although over 80 per cent of services claimed to offer after care , only half of these were found to offer help ‘ systematically or always ’ ( Hellinckx and Munter , 1990 ) . |
| 24 | The council can fund only half of next year 's grants . |
| 25 | You can get a list from the Japanese Tourist Board in London , which for some inscrutable reason gives only half of them . |
| 26 | In the meantime , the UK is now the third largest producer of beef and veal in the EEC , though its production of about a million tonnes is only half of that of France and it is only seventh in the table of per capita consumption at 22.3kg per annum . |
| 27 | This is possible because only half of the tape 's width travels past the heads on each run . |
| 28 | But the amazing looks are only half of the story ; National made these instruments specifically to be the loudest acoustic guitars in existence — and they succeeded . |
| 29 | By the 1930s only two thirds of the island 's arable land were under cultivation and only half of that was irrigated . |
| 30 | But you sense that 's only half of it , that there 's some form of exorcism going on here , some sort of expulsion of childhood ghosts . |