Example sentences of "[adv] about half " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ending of the former child allowances and their replacement with tax-free child benefits in 1975 meant an increase in the problem of dependency , with only about half the 750,000 one-parent families in 1976 , for instance , able to rely on their income as means of support . |
| 2 | When the gold has been extracted from the crushed and ground rock , only about half of that can fit back into its original space . |
| 3 | In a similar way we can use the die figures for the early imperial bronze coinages minted at Corinth to calculate that the total value coined over a century was only about half a million denarii , or less than 5000 per year . |
| 4 | Activity in 1994 may be only about half the peak level of 1990 . ’ |
| 5 | City investors accepted shares on condition that all could be placed but by last night potential buyers had been found for only about half the stake . |
| 6 | Please remember when filling in the questionnaire that only about half to two thirds of the newsletters printed go to members ; the others all are given away at clinics , shows , etc. possibly to people who have no idea what NCT is . |
| 7 | It is estimated that by the end of the century only about half of all British children will experience conventional family lives — parents married at the time they are born and continuing married until they are grown up ( Kiernan & Wicks , 1990 ) |
| 8 | According to Eknomska politika ( 20 July 1987 ) , these agreements covered at that time about half of the value of exports to the convertible currency area , so that only about half of these exports were generating an inflow of foreign exchange . |
| 9 | There were only about half a dozen of them , and they could see clearly that they were wizened and wrinkled and , quite plainly , not worth gathering |
| 10 | His carving knife was only about half an inch wide at the centre where constant sharpening had worn it away . |
| 11 | Carbon dioxide generation for the Tertiary coals follows the same trend as that for the Palaeozoic coals , though the yield is only about half . |
| 12 | That range covers only about half of those organisations included in this survey . |
| 13 | I 'd learned their names only to the extent that they owned horses in the horse car or had touched bases with Filmer , which came to only about half . |
| 14 | The strange thing is that not all amateur operators seem to understand this and only about half the country 's licensed amateurs are members of the RSGB . |
| 15 | An astronomic figure , when you consider that sugar , for instance , provides , weight for weight , only about half that number of calories , and that potatoes contain only 25 calories an ounce . |
| 16 | A tank can be maintained without filtration , but more work is involved and only about half the number of fish can be kept . |
| 17 | They found that only about half would have voted Labour if they had been registered . |
| 18 | They would have planned to have won only about half the amount of possession that they did actually get and still hoped to have been in front . |
| 19 | There were few changes in any of them as obvious as those which overtook Brighthelmstone , and their populations remained quite small , Chichester , the largest , having only about half Brighton 's in 1801 . |
| 20 | Not only were the Sinhalese underrepresented , but only about half the Sinhalese in the police professed Buddhism . |
| 21 | The needs of knitwear design software in this respect are fairly small — most need only about half a megabyte of RAM — some other programs that I have used need two megabytes , or four times as much memory . |
| 22 | our ILEA studies suggest that only about half the difference between reading scores of children from West Indian homes and their white counterparts may be accounted for by socio-economic factors . |
| 23 | The country produces some 3,500 engineering graduates a year , only about half as many as private industry needs . |
| 24 | As a result of the current devolution in favour of the regions , the Arts Council will be directly funding only about half the 170 arts bodies it funded in 1991 . |
| 25 | Asking people to match the colours they could recall with colours on a standard colour chart revealed that only about half the dreams contained colour , and many of these were in pastel shades . |
| 26 | That having been said , it is true that attack is predicted by other postures only about half as well as escape . |
| 27 | So we 'll cut it all down so there 's only about half of it that you need to learn okay and I 'll print you a table out on the computer like that and then you can ask your mum to ask you them . |
| 28 | Of those families with documented familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy , however , only about half have identifiable mutations related to the β-myosin heavy chain gene , and little is known of the incidence of genetic abnormalities in non-familial cases . |
| 29 | ‘ It was only about half past twelve . |
| 30 | The chicks are released precociously at only about half adult weight , giving the adults time to complete their own moult and be ready for breeding the following season ( Stonehouse , 1985 ) . |