Example sentences of "[prep] about half " in BNC.
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| 1 | After about half an hour , Jane reappeared . |
| 2 | After about half an hour 's unsteady plodding along the sand , leaving dinosaur hoofprints and a small steaming roundabout in the middle of the beach , my buffalo turned back for home , slotted a few heads of corn into his cheeks by the way of reward and let me dismount . |
| 3 | Anyway , after about half an hour — the whole lesson — I just dried up and said something like , ‘ Well , that 's it . ’ |
| 4 | After about half an hour , the shooting died down and someone helped me inside the Cathedral . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Betty after about half a minute . |
| 6 | It was the thought of this that had her standing up after about half an hour in preparation to go to her room . |
| 7 | The last five years have seen the DUP establish itself as the voice of about half of the unionist population . |
| 8 | With the Atlantic Ocean floor spreading away in opposite directions from the ridge , Iceland is getting wider at a rate of about half a centimetre per year , so a lot of new material has to be added continuously in the zone of tension in the middle , or else the two halves would soon be completely separated . |
| 9 | For the United States , this has been part of its purpose as an aspect of counter-insurgency policy : to prevent the mass of the population defecting to the FMLN and its allies , and to deal with the social and economic costs of about half a million displaced persons . |
| 10 | One of the sideshows had a two-inch thick scaffold board into the top of which five-inch nails had been driven to a depth of about half an inch . |
| 11 | The container should have a water depth of about half to three quarters of an inch . |
| 12 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 13 | Results indicated that the yield of about half the wells that could be hydraulically fractured would be improved at a cost very substantially lower than drilling new wells . |
| 14 | The hatred is vivid but instructive , for Tabi is representative of about half of those sportsmen from single-parent families . |
| 15 | The English laid siege to Vannes , Rennes and Nantes , but the English troops were greatly outnumbered by French forces in the duchy , and in January 1343 Edward agreed to the truce of Malestroit , which stabilized the position and left John de Montfort in control of about half the duchy . |
| 16 | I them place gummed strips onto each side with an overlap of about half an inch , which I press firmly until almost dry . |
| 17 | Of about half a million foundlings christened in workhouses after 1728 , only 40 per cent survived to their second birthday . |
| 18 | She normally emerged every five or six hours for a hunting trip of about half an hour , returning to the den with eels . |
| 19 | In effect it provided for the dismemberment of Abyssinia and the giving to Mussolini of about half of what he had set himself to achieve by conquest . |
| 20 | The first REM sleep period is usually shorter than the subsequent ones — about fifteen minutes in adults , as against later periods of about half an hour . |
| 21 | In a folder test , a selection of about half a dozen advertisements , including the ad to be tested , is put in a file folder . |
| 22 | He had seen her passionate anger and had wanted to kiss her senseless , had heard her lie to him and had wanted to shake the truth out of her , had almost caused her to swoon and had wanted to hold her close and tell her he would n't allow anything to hurt her again — all in the space of about half a minute . |
| 23 | We have setpiece debates on the European Community budget — we had one in only 90 minutes last week , which worked out at a rate of about half a billion pounds per minute of our debate . |
| 24 | We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end . |
| 25 | The towpath , covered with a build-up of earth and grass which had been accumulating since commercial traffic on the canal ceased in the 1930's , was cleared to a width of one metre for a distance of about half a mile . |
| 26 | Many of the largest TNCs have assets and annual sales far in excess of the GNP of about half of the countries of the world . |
| 27 | Single ulcers develop in the proximal duodenum of about half the animals . |
| 28 | After I 'd got rid of about half the beer I 'd drunk in the Arms , I went to have another look at the Factory . |
| 29 | Keith Wrightson and David Levine were able to trace the ownership of about half the freehold and a quarter of the copyhold properties during the course of the seventeenth century . |
| 30 | Turn the rectangle upside down and carve out a hollow from the centre , leaving a frame of at least 1cm ( ½inch ) and a depth of about half the cake . |