Example sentences of "[adv] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says effectively half my farm will disappear — we 'll have to replan our business to take that into account . |
| 2 | They are without right half Chris Maitland , who is on holiday , and reserve goalkeeper Chris Routes , who has a knee injury , but otherwise had every reason to be confident . |
| 3 | Computers believed their silences were ‘ no ’ answers — right half the time . |
| 4 | They had big half circles of pure white skin below . |
| 5 | Read it aloud half a dozen times then try to set down the framework and some key ‘ trigger words ’ on half a dozen index cards . |
| 6 | Then a big rock began to move as well , and suddenly half the hillside was moving . |
| 7 | That he 'd gone out to look for her on the road and across the clunch pit field , returning alone half an hour later . |
| 8 | Another shelf is packed with new travel guides , all half the original price . |
| 9 | ‘ We are all half ruthless and all half doomed . ’ |
| 10 | For example , IFS estimate that if the Department of Social Security had used the European Commission methodology , which uses expenditure rather than income , then in 1985 an extra 3.4 million people would have been found below half the national average . |
| 11 | The industrial economies ' share of world output may already have dropped below half . |
| 12 | In 1988 43 per cent of single pensioners were living on incomes below half of the average and more than two in three of them were women . |
| 13 | For the quinquennium 1982–83 to 1986–87 , i.e. after the major phases of absorption of other large courses , it has remained just below half of the FTE students in the Polytechnic . |
| 14 | In such conditions you can fish the river as if it were a canal , with very little weight either spread equally down the line , or grouped just below half way with a dropper about twelve inches above the hook . |
| 15 | On one occasion I had some winter clothes brought in and it did take up literally half the visit , sorting all that out , and arguing about what I could and could n't have . |
| 16 | Mr Newman was a small quiet man , half the size of Dadda , probably literally half his weight . |
| 17 | Boil them together half an hour , or till they become a thick jelly . |
| 18 | They emerged together half an hour later , just as Bill 's car pulled into the driveway . |
| 19 | Furthermore half of the patients with some features of Crohn 's disease have been labelled as indeterminate colitis because the pathological features were not entirely diagnostic . |
| 20 | We have problems on British television because our theatrical tradition gets in the way , so-that characters talk too much , as though the medium is only half way from the stage . |
| 21 | He stood up , stony-faced , and was turning to the door when James Menzies held up his hand and said , ‘ Wait — wait — that is only half the business . ’ |
| 22 | If he bought compressed pellet hops he would have to use only half the amount compared to whole hops . |
| 23 | Different manufacturers claim widely different life expectancies for both materials , but you can reasonably expect a five-year life from most types ( but as some manufacturers claim a life of only half this , and others double , check before you buy ) . |
| 24 | I draw attention to their provenance because commentators have focused on the family-magazine question , on the attempt , that is , to get the chapter past Katkov in some shape or form , and I think this is only half the story . |
| 25 | Deloitte has an impressive list of audit clients although its management consultancy practice is only half the size of Coopers . |
| 26 | New car registrations — only half a million in 1958 — jumped in 1963 to more than a million ( Today , they are running at two million . ) |
| 27 | From two very good , perhaps even winning , positions , he has scored only half a point . |
| 28 | Yet with any luck we shall have a dozen bold new hens to lay eggs for us next year - and even if only half of them manage to emulate their mothers in the matter of bringing up families , by mid-summer we shall be positively over-run . |
| 29 | Moreover , each patch has to be walked by two men : one providing cover for the other while he polices his beat , so that each spends only half of the shift on their particular area . |
| 30 | Confused data on peasant landownership and family size made it virtually impossible to make accurate assessments , so that for many provinces only half of the taxable land per head was in fact recorded in the tax lists . |