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 | Er it spoilt it a bit when that guy in the glasses came on half way through . |
| 3 | ‘ You asked to go spot on half past two in Makepeace 's class today . |
| 4 | And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Computers believed their silences were ‘ no ’ answers — right half the time . |
| 7 | They had big half circles of pure white skin below . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Then a big rock began to move as well , and suddenly half the hillside was moving . |
| 10 | That he 'd gone out to look for her on the road and across the clunch pit field , returning alone half an hour later . |
| 11 | Another shelf is packed with new travel guides , all half the original price . |
| 12 | ‘ We are all half ruthless and all half doomed . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The industrial economies ' share of world output may already have dropped below half . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Mr Newman was a small quiet man , half the size of Dadda , probably literally half his weight . |
| 20 | Boil them together half an hour , or till they become a thick jelly . |
| 21 | They emerged together half an hour later , just as Bill 's car pulled into the driveway . |
| 22 | He arrived on the 18th tee needing a par to get into a play-off and , with an extraordinary demonstration of the tension involved , jumped up and down half a dozen times as his tee shot headed inexorably for the bunker on the left . |
| 23 | However , I prefer the bass Peter Harvey on Virgin , if only for the simply gorgeous noise he makes , sounding rather like a lyric tenor down half an octave . |
| 24 | And the videotape of Cal and me playing Bottom and Titania in A Midsummer Night 's Dream last year , with us collapsing in giggles when she tripped over a cobweb and brought down half the lights . |
| 25 | The next involved abseilling down half a huge rock before dropping into a pool with a waterfall close by . |
| 26 | His voice was n't its usual fulsome boom , and probably only carried down half a mile of corridor . |
| 27 | Ace , Defries and Johannsen could only watch as , almost in slow motion , Daak thrust out a fist to support his weight — and pushed down half the switches on the control panel . |
| 28 | You 'd put your hundred and twenty five thousand pounds down , you 'd also put down half of the jointly owned property because you could have dealt with that while you were alive and you 'll end up paying large amounts of inheritance tax . |
| 29 | It does n't give you a hangover if you remember to get down half a pint of water before you go to sleep . |
| 30 | Realizing that her tea was going cold , she gulped down half of it . |