Example sentences of "[conj] half [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dress in haste and at ten I sit down to compose until about twelve or half past twelve . |
| 2 | Well , you see you finish in the morning about half past , half past twelve we used to , cos no sooner you get your dinner and had a drink , you had to be back again two o'clock or half past two to start on 'em again , you see , |
| 3 | or half past twelve in Adelaide' — |
| 4 | Nevertheless , our weekly bill for provisions alone came to 25 shillings , or half of our total income . |
| 5 | Married couples may now apply to have either the whole or half of their 1993/94 married couple 's allowance allocated to the wife ( p 105 ) . |
| 6 | Married couples may now apply to have either the whole or half of their 1993/94 married couple 's allowance allocated to the wife . |
| 7 | Is his J a middle initial or half of a first initial ? ) and K.J. Shine , as well as A.J. Wright , R.J. Scott , P.J. Prichard and N.J. Lenham , so we could have two J sides with no trouble . |
| 8 | It seems to me that he was waylaid and killed round about a quarter or half of the hour past six . |
| 9 | Cardio-vascular disease ( responsible for a quarter of all deaths worldwide ) threatened to increase dramatically in Latin America and other South countries , although in the developed world ( where half of all deaths were attributed to heart attacks and strokes ) the trend was generally downward . |
| 10 | Where half plus Statutory Sick Pay or any National Insurance Benefit , including Dependents ' Allowance to which you are entitled exceeds your normal pay , the amount in excess of your normal pay will be deducted from the half pay allowance . |
| 11 | If before you became an Abbey Life associate every Wednesday night you played badminton with three of your chums as a foursome , yes , O K , continue to do that in the future , the only difference is , I want you now , to put it in your diary , that half past seven , Wednesday night , I 'm playing badminton with the lads . |
| 12 | What could we change that half into so that we could one sixth to it ? |
| 13 | As I drew nearer I noticed that half of the roof had gone and there was a large gaping hole in the wall at the side of the cottage . |
| 14 | In the United Kingdom , Derry/Londonderry was the first and their game was called The Maiden City , presumably in order not to alienate that half of the community which did not approve of either the name Derry or Londonderry . |
| 15 | Since the Government 's own inspectors had said that half of secondary school children were being educated in substandard buildings why did he not cancel the CTC programme and use the money to repair Britain 's crumbling schools ? |
| 16 | A study by Tom Copeland , a finance academic turned consultant at McKinsey , of six LBOs among its clients found that half of the value created in the buy-outs came as a result of unexpected falls in interest rates . |
| 17 | I think Jeff , on the other hand , is willing to give up himself in order to become his reflection. , for example , that half of its projects consumed less than 2% of its total development manpower . |
| 18 | The association released details of a survey of 244 carers showing that half of were unsure of their duties under the Act . |
| 19 | The fact that half of the members of the Bundestag are selected from party lists , rather than being elected , only reinforces the power of the parties , weakens accountability and is open to the usual favouritist pressures . |
| 20 | A survey presented at the meeting showed that half of undergraduate and graduate science students think lecture notes and photocopies are enough to pass their course examinations . |
| 21 | But it is equally likely to be either one of the pair , and if you average over lots of sperms ( or eggs ) it turns out that half of them contain one allele , half the other . |
| 22 | As reported , the authors found ‘ disturbing ’ the fact that half of the sample CID investigations they examined were lacking in some details or were actually unsatisfactory ’ . |
| 23 | Currently only about two per cent of Wellcome 's shares are held by US investors compared with 26 per cent of Glaxo and 35 per cent of SmithKline Beecham shares , despite the fact that half of Wellcome 's pharmaceutical sales are in North America . |
| 24 | They reckon that half of Gloucester City was under water . ’ |
| 25 | 2.00:THE participation of Chatam ensures that half of these are carrying more weight than they were originally alloted . |
| 26 | I 'm to forget that half of me is different . |
| 27 | But by then various other children were misbehaving too , so I sent them out , and suddenly I realized that half of my class was outside the door having a whale of a time ! |
| 28 | The iv ( situs inversus viscerum ) mutation in mice interferes with this left-right decision-making process so that half of the mutants display situs inversus ( the normal asymmetry is reversed ) . |
| 29 | Redbridge and Waltham Forest had accepted that there would be no major increase in revenue to fund the development of new services before closure and would plan on the basis that half of the sites of two hospitals could be sold to finance the new services . |
| 30 | Intel Corp is convinced by the research that suggests that half of all personal computers could include multimedia capability by 1996 , and according to PC Week , and as part of its campaign to keep the iAPX-86 clone fabricators at bay , the company is working on a new version of the 80486 that will incorporate its Digital Video Interactive technology on chip , enabling users to tap full-motion video capabilities without additional add-in chips or boards . |