Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] about half " in BNC.
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| 1 | That covers about half of the erm of the county . |
| 2 | It costs about 20 to make a tonne of waste derived fuel pellets and these have about half the calorific value of coal . |
| 3 | Biddy did not speak for some time , and stood considering them in a way that made them all feel about half their usual size . |
| 4 | That took about half an hour , and I could n't feel a thing from the waist down . |
| 5 | They are about 72 degrees Celsius and Chatterjee found that one , slightly hotter , had 2 per cent helium in its bubbles , the other having about half this amount . |
| 6 | It acknowledged that this was not possible in these cases , since they each supplied about half of the total energy needs of their respective regions . |