Example sentences of "about half " in BNC.
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| 31 | Hidden in a bus and estimated to contain about half a ton of dynamite , the bomb ripped a wall of the nine-storey DAS building and badly damaged nearby buildings . |
| 32 | Hidden in a bus and estimated to contain about half a ton of dynamite , the bomb ripped a wall of the nine-storey DAS building and badly damaged nearby buildings . |
| 33 | For a small firm of solicitors in a market town , conveyancing has accounted for about half of all fee income . |
| 34 | For a small firm of solicitors in a market town , conveyancing has accounted for about half of all fee income . |
| 35 | In Scotland about half of the 600 boats currently operating could be severely affected . |
| 36 | At around 6am we heard heavy machinegun fire from the direction of the Deni , the investigative branch of the PDF , about half a mile from the commission headquarters and dangerously close to US and Panamanian civilian housing . |
| 37 | ‘ By the end of the five years , however , passengers should be paying for all operating costs and providing about half the investment expenditure . ’ |
| 38 | Emissions from a gas-fired plant are about half those from a coal-fired one . |
| 39 | Industry and agriculture would pay about half the bill , the government the other half . |
| 40 | Unfortunately , river dolphins and catfish inhabit the same river , and between 1950 and 1980 , about half the 100 or so baiji found dead had died from swallowing or being snagged by fish hooks . |
| 41 | But in 1987 a huge earthquake smashed the trans-Andean oil pipeline which furnishes about half of Ecuador 's exports . |
| 42 | Income from joint ventures produced about half of Corning 's net profits last year . |
| 43 | If history is any guide , the average length of a recession in the past 60 years has been 18 months , with the average bear market wiping out about half the gain made during the bull market it succeeded . |
| 44 | By this stage the universe was a warm ball of gas , about half as hot as the surface of the sun . |
| 45 | It is one of the world 's most unequal societies , with rich landowners on the fertile lowlands and illiterate Indians ( about half of the population , speaking 20 separate languages ) scraping a living in the Mayan highlands . |
| 46 | Mr Matthews reckons that about half of the banks ' retained earnings comes from securities gains . |
| 47 | Digital Instruments still relies on universities and research institutes for about half of its sales . |
| 48 | First , about half of it will be used to pay creditors and to meet legal fees connected with the bankruptcy proceedings . |
| 49 | The ministry of labour suspects that about half of the unemployed have indeed been laid off , but other evidence suggests that at least in some parts of the country the proportion is much lower . |
| 50 | About 12,000 sorties were flown in the first week — about half of them bombing raids , the rest involving air refuelling , reconnaissance , fighter cover and the like . |
| 51 | About half the loss resulted from operations , half from restructuring . |
| 52 | About half the houses were now finished , the turfs laid , the flower beds cut , looking like fresh graves — all in the front , of course . |
| 53 | Just for about half an hour . |
| 54 | In fact the population of Great Britain only increased by about four millions during the inter-war years , about half the level of growth which might have been expected had the rate of growth of the late nineteenth century continued . |
| 55 | From 1977 to 1986 there were about half as many convictions for manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility as there were murder convictions . |
| 56 | Three days later I was limping back from the village and was about half a mile from home when I saw a movement in the hedge . |
| 57 | Normally about half the crop is traded early . |
| 58 | Decrease the portion of dessert to about half the usual amount . |
| 59 | Use about half the usual quantity of butter or hard margarine on vegetables . |
| 60 | The last five years have seen the DUP establish itself as the voice of about half of the unionist population . |