Example sentences of "[noun] about half " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farmer sent him to keep a flock of larks off a field that had just been set with winter corn : ‘ It was late November or early December ; and when it got dark about half past four time I made my way back to the farm thinking my job was done . |
| 2 | They often had Fudgana and they were often , he hoped , violently sick in the car about half an hour later . |
| 3 | She said now apparently they 've got a horse somewhere round here and she said when she came back there was this car about half hour later after they 'd left here a car been broken into . |
| 4 | The undecided ( Leicestershire and North Derbyshire ) where a majority were early supporters for the strike but within six months about half had returned to work . |
| 5 | Bait will be a piece of crust about half the size of a matchbox , torn from a new loaf . |
| 6 | ( 1984 ) found that by the end of therapy about half of couples showed significant improvement and approximately one-third of couples appeared to be non-distressed . |
| 7 | According to our experience the pancreatic blood flow in caerulein induced pancreatitis is significantly reduced already after two hours of caerulein infusion and then this reduction progresses to reach after five hours of infusion about half of the normal flow . |
| 8 | ‘ You regained consciousness about half an hour after I started talking to you . |
| 9 | In London responsibility for around two-thirds of GLC spending , and in the former metropolitan county areas about half , was transferred to non-departmental bodies or central departments ( Dunleavy and Rhodes , 1987 , p. 23 ) . |
| 10 | In Scotland about half of the 600 boats currently operating could be severely affected . |
| 11 | There was somebody working here called er Julian , he was fucking coming , coming out the pub about half past twelve , coming back in about six o'clock and then working on three |
| 12 | They are tiny white worms about half an inch long which look like ‘ threads ’ of white cotton — hence the name — threadworms . |
| 13 | It took Stephen about half an hour to reach the banks and he began to head across them towards Chesney . |
| 14 | Though the official figures are not easy to interpret it seems that at the outbreak of the Seven Years War about half its manpower was drawn either from the jails of London and other cities or from the crews of foreign ships . |
| 15 | On paper the French language , spoken as a native tongue by a quarter of Canada 's population , a community about half the size of Canada 's native anglophones , and buttressed by the official bilingualism of the federation , the international backing of French culture and upwards of 130,000 students in francophone universities ( 1988 ) , seems safe enough . |
| 16 | Other dinosaur track evidence reveals a medium-sized biped weighing about half a ton , seeming to run at 43kph , which is faster than a man but still considerably slower than a racehorse . |
| 17 | Ford estimates that in academic libraries as much as one-third of all items used are found by discovery at the shelf , and in public libraries about half the books borrowed are located in this way . |
| 18 | They had whalebone in these stays and we used to cut pieces about half an inch long and in the daytime , I used to make a bag full and put them in between the doors and I 'd go round the first time and put them in and when I went round later , if that whalebone was missing , I 'd make enquiries . |
| 19 | But I spoke with Mr about half an hour ago on the telephone , told him not to worry at all , that |
| 20 | I should have known better but I got a booking about half past nine in the evening . |
| 21 | We should note that over the next decade about half the children aged from 7–11 years will not have adequate conditions to attend primary school normally in terms of the law on the National System of Education and that many other older children will be likewise unable to attend school . |
| 22 | ‘ My wife and I have lived in Fenny Drayton for a number of years , it is a small village on the Leics/Warks border about half a mile from the main A5 trunk road . |
| 23 | Our Scott woke up one Saturday night about half past about eleven o'clock it was screaming , I said what 's the matter , , I thought I , but he do n't never ever cry really did . |
| 24 | He 'd introduced her to Diane about half an hour before . |
| 25 | To turn around from the forward stance to face in the opposite direction , adopt the standard forward stance , and then move the right foot about half a shoulder 's width to the left , pivoting on the left foot and maintaining balance . |
| 26 | Well the players arrived here at Prenton Park about half an hour ago … given a warm welcome by the Town fans . |
| 27 | Since one can never hope to see things which are much smaller than the wave-length of the light which one is using , there was clearly no hope of ever seeing them directly by means of the ordinary optical microscope which reaches its limit with objects about half a micron thick . |
| 28 | Well , you see you finish in the morning about half past , half past twelve we used to , cos no sooner you get your dinner and had a drink , you had to be back again two o'clock or half past two to start on 'em again , you see , |
| 29 | And you leave here at twenty to eight at night a an and you arrive at , you arrive in Ayr in the morning about half past seven . |
| 30 | It has been found , however , that most people only use about half their breathing potential which means the brain is only receiving about half its quota of oxygen . |