Example sentences of "[Wh det] [is] half " in BNC.

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1 I do n't think he 's a very good people manager , but he admits to that , which is half the battle . ’
2 Although dealing with a much smaller area confined to Insula XIV , an Insula which is half the size of most of the others , nevertheless , as many as 1293 well stratified vessels of coarse ware are published .
3 The geometric no-arbitrage condition contains an extra term ( y ) which is half the difference between the average of the variances of the instantaneous returns on the shares in the index ( ) and the variance of the instantaneous return on the index ( ) , that is , y = ( ) /2 .
4 VHS and Betamax use tape which is half an inch wide , while U-matic uses three-quarter inch tape .
5 Reception under conditions of distraction is taken to its extreme in television , which is half watched in the course of pursuing other activities and in which very often , especially among children , entire programmes are not viewed at all ; instead , fingers rarely leave the remote control device as there is a constant change of channels ( Ellis 1982 , p. 137 ) .
6 One further variation is to operate the motor with alternate one and two-phase-on excitation , i.e. A , AB , B BC , C , CA , A , --- Each excitation change produces an incremental movement which is half the length of a normal step and therefore this excitation is known as the " half-stepping " mode of operation .
7 Ultimately , we managed to produce a film which is half the original and half ours — and , unfortunately , it shows . ’
8 Mike Barr , from the Borrowby Group , said the figure which is half the height of the proposed pylons would be visible miles away .
9 I have the small glass which is half tonic
10 Those are gon na be redirected in here erm as well but it turns out that erm those two types roughly equate to forty out of two thousand which is half a , half a percent ?
11 Yeah when we 've had a look at fractions a bit erm we 'll play with those and we 'll find out things like what 's half of a quarter things like that .
12 What 's half term ?
13 Right , what 's half an hour ?
14 What 's half of three sixty ?
15 What 's half of twenty ?
16 What 's half a circle called ?
17 That means half , put the note in half , so what 's half of two ?
18 So , what 's half of two ?
19 So what 's half of one ?
20 14 What is half of 44/7 ?
21 15 What is half of ½ ?
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