Example sentences of "[vb -s] about half " in BNC.
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| 1 | One rather unusual feature is the Whin Common , which lies about half a mile to the north of the village . |
| 2 | When discovered , the wreck was thought to be another English naval ship , the Dartmouth , most of which lies about half a mile away . |
| 3 | That covers about half of the erm of the county . |
| 4 | But , even though it has about half the population of a city like Leeds , the people there speak a total of three languages ! |
| 5 | The 130,000 tonnes of litter consumed each year has about half the calorific value of coal . |
| 6 | Databases have continued to grow : the Land Survey borehole database now contains about half a million lithological records from just over 90 000 boreholes , and the structural database contains data from more than 11 000 sites . |
| 7 | Taq I does not cleave the 225bp amplification product found in patient A ( lane 3 ) , but cleaves about half of the product in his carrier mother ( lane 2 ) . |
| 8 | My very ordinary London flat costs about half as much again as my flat in Glasgow , which is an infinitely superior building in which to live in every respect . |
| 9 | In studies that have considered all ages at presentation , anaemia affects about half of cases , although exact comparisons are difficult because of the different criteria that have been used to define anaemia . |
| 10 | There are about 100,000 hairs on the scalp — blondes have least , brunettes most — and hair grows about half an inch a month . |
| 11 | Erm , I 'm sure she 'll make he reckons about half an hour erm , to make sure that |
| 12 | It takes about half an hour to set up for 2 shots , which will take up about 5 seconds each on screen . |
| 13 | But they have n't got it quantified to such a point where they can actually distinguish a tonsillectomy which might have a lot of procedures but actually takes about half a minute with er other things that are , you know , much much more complicated and the cost of tonsillectomies is unreasonably high compared with erm , you know , with |
| 14 | But in 1987 a huge earthquake smashed the trans-Andean oil pipeline which furnishes about half of Ecuador 's exports . |
| 15 | Of the total research budget , the government contributes about half ( the rest coming from private companies ) . |
| 16 | The combined new firm has discretionary funds of more than £4 billion under management , to which Bell Lawrie contributes about half . |
| 17 | The Erdenet copper mine , which produces about half of Mongolia 's exports , shuts down for hours each day . |
| 18 | Every acre of sunflowers produces about half a ton of oil which will be turned into low fat margarine . |
| 19 | The works supplies about half of the water demands of the Teesdale , Teesside and Darlington areas the rest comes from the Lartington Treatment Works , west of Barnard Castle . |
| 20 | The company has several other industrial and government partners , including Boeing Co , Du Pont Co , Ford Motor Co and the National Security Agency , but IBM 's $100m-plus represents about half the total raised by the company , and IBM has also supplied top managers to the company . |
| 21 | However , as soon as I drive off the temperature gauge falls to cold and the fuel gauge reads about half what is in the tank . |
| 22 | The continental shelf surrounding the depression is less than 200 km wide off Greenland and North America but 500–1000 m wide off Eurasia ; altogether it totals about half the area of the ocean . |
| 23 | The federal government owns about half of the California 's entire desert wilderness . |
| 24 | Snorting produces a high that lasts about half an hour accompanied by loss of appetite and an indifference to pain |
| 25 | REM sleep can be identified with active sleep in the neonate , who spends about half the time in this state . |
| 26 | ICL also now generates about half its revenues from higher margin non-hardware sales , and expects this to increase to between 55% and 60% over the next few years . |
| 27 | ICL also now generates about half its revenues from higher margin non-hardware sales , and expects this to increase to between 55% and 60% over the next few years . |
| 28 | Although the company has subsidiaries in 10 countries , it still generates about half of its revenues , or about £70m , in the UK . |
| 29 | In fact , in winds of Force 3 to 5 it only does about half the work in getting your weight over the back foot , the rest is up to you . |
| 30 | And a cut down multiplication table , where he just learns about half of them . |