Example sentences of "[is] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's half and half , in fact a little bit more English if you weigh it up . ’ |
| 2 | In fact , the opportunity for Edberg to play ( up to the final ) one of the 7 other players entered with a top fifty ranking , was denied him when first , Lendl slumped to defeat against Grant Connell in three sets , then Chang and Jarryd lost to Wheaton , while , in the Swede 's half of the draw , Rotsagno lost to John Fitzgerald and Woodbridge fell to the unseeded Pat Cash . |
| 3 | Eugene Anderson resigned as chief executive of platinum metals producer Johnson Matthey on the eve of the company 's half year results . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's half the team , ’ said Mr Fenton of the injured England captain , ‘ but Brett Williams did a good job in his place . ’ |
| 5 | Taking over someone else 's project when it 's half complete is never easy , there is little attraction for new blood to slog away at fulfilling the ambitious plans of others . |
| 6 | $850,000 — that 's half a mill more than we got to do Easy Rider . |
| 7 | Then it 's half past eleven . |
| 8 | Oh no , her mother 's opinion had been , if Jessie did n't want to serve in the shops then she could help with the housework and learn to cook , and so save Maggie Rice 's half week 's wage of six and threepence , for Maggie was on what her mother called half-days , which started at eight and finished at one . |
| 9 | Suddenly a clearance found Bastin , who sped up-field to exploit City 's depleted defence and join forces with Lambert , the only other red shirt in the opposition 's half . |
| 10 | In more than one crunch game when the pressure was off and the ball was in the opposition 's half , Frank would climb on to the bar and endear himself to the Celtic faithful by pretending to sleep on the woodwork . |
| 11 | The conference that gave rise to these events was organised by Donald Johanson , who unearthed Lucy 's half complete skeleton in 1974 at Hadar in Ethiopia , about 1100 miles north of where the Laetoli trails were uncovered between 1976 and 1979 . |
| 12 | In his valley the ploughing 's started and , because his family 's small , no one could be spared to come with him to help him fetch his wood and water — and although the water 's nearby , the firewood 's half a day away . |
| 13 | A lurcher has all the necessary speed to catch and seize any speeding rabbit or even hare , but in truth virtually any dog that 's half a dog can catch a bolting rabbit during ferreting . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's half past eight . |
| 15 | There 's half a bottle left from that whirligigousticon sickness last winter . |
| 16 | ‘ That dog 's half mad , ’ Tom said to Willie but found that he was talking to the air for Willie was several yards behind , still trying to keep up , his cheeks flushed with the effort . |
| 17 | LIKE your correspondent I think the RSPCA makes it too hard for people to adopt pets — it refused to consider us because our garden was not fully fenced , even though there 's half an acre of it well away from a main road . |
| 18 | This followed the technique of the book which had helped me most in my early years — R. Grant Brown 's Half the Battle in Burmese . |
| 19 | He can sit there until there 's half an hour to go , then we can gamble with the score at 0–0 by sending him on , knowing he 's capable of winning the game for us . |
| 20 | ‘ Why does n't he just admit he 's half queenie ? |
| 21 | HE who 's getting past his best meets HER who 's half his age , ca n't believe his luck and ca n't get enough of it . |
| 22 | Most portable types are around £20 — that 's half the price they used to be 10 years ago . |
| 23 | Sead used to weigh 12 stone … now he 's half that His brother was 13 stone … he 's down to 9 stone |
| 24 | BIG DAY : She 's half the girl she was |
| 25 | Souness admitted : ‘ The temptation is to give him some sort of outing whether it 's half an hour or even a half . |
| 26 | 1956 Hancock 's Half Hour |
| 27 | It always fails , but that 's half the fun . |
| 28 | ‘ And , ’ he added , ‘ there 's half a dozen small lorries to carry heavy supplies — stuff like diesel to run our own generator for electricity if the hydroelectric power fails . ’ |
| 29 | During our ‘ inspection tour ’ I had heard a fair amount of noise from the garden , and now Miss Sowerby announced , ‘ There 's half a dozen patients , Doctor , including one who 's hurt his head badly . ’ |
| 30 | He 's half Japanese . |