Example sentences of "[was/were] about half " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1977 to 1986 there were about half as many convictions for manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility as there were murder convictions . |
| 2 | It found that 14% of women had experienced urinary incontinence , 5.7% within the preceding week ; the corresponding figures for men were about half these . |
| 3 | There were about half a dozen porcelain dolls sitting among them , the kind with which his sisters had played as children . |
| 4 | The riding stables were about half an hour 's drive from the college . |
| 5 | There were about half a dozen tax manuals , some computer books , a large-scale London A to Z and a copy of Duke Ellington 's book , Music is my Mistress . |
| 6 | That particular single matter was not pursued by the ombudsman an and that therefore means that erm it is n't something that er he felt was a question of maladministration but I did want just to emphasise that this particular point , because in the more er i in the recent report to the Policy Resources Committee on ombudsman complaints , the number , and I ca n't recall exactly what the number was , but the number included in that report relating to planning matters was certainly higher than one , I think there were about half a dozen and what I wanted to take the opportunity of explaining was the , the majority of those all but the one that I 've now referred to , er where in fact relating to district matter planning applications and not to the County Council . |
| 7 | when we got home we sat eating we 'd got home from a show then and we were sat eating supper , and it were about half past three in the morning and we sat talking , I said to Rudy I 'm sure I can smell burning ! |
| 8 | I think it were about half past seven , and then about an hour after it started . |
| 9 | Three days later I was limping back from the village and was about half a mile from home when I saw a movement in the hedge . |
| 10 | Our easily found gite at Trans-en-Provence was about half a mile from this road . |
| 11 | It was about half past five , dear . |
| 12 | In one was a fat , broad-faced man ; the body perfect and soft , as if just dead ; the lid had been glewed together , lengthways , and the weight of the earth had prest down his nose ; his beard was about half an inch long ; the winding-sheet was crape , tied with black ribbons ; and the thumbs and toes with the like ; the date was composed of small nails ( 1665 ) by which it appeared he had been dead seventy-two years ; as were also the figure of an hour-glass , death 's head , and cross bones . |
| 13 | I 'd say it was about half and half in the factory but higher up it 's all men . |
| 14 | Their army was about half the size of Dara 's , although highly trained and confident . |
| 15 | From the Bab el Khalk to the Bab es Zuweyla was about half a mile . |
| 16 | At the time of the Spanish contact , there was about 90% forest cover and the population was about half a million ; by 1945 , the forest cover was some 75% and the population 19 million ; by 1976 , the cover was down to 38% and by 1980 27% and that partly disturbed . |
| 17 | In fact er they subsequently confirmed that the real truth of that was about half about two thousand er six hundred flights using , using Stansted , er , er , at the moment , erm the issue that , that leads us to is whether or not our transport should change er the er level of restrictions that they |
| 18 | There was about half an hour when It was impossible to sleep because of the noise of military aircraft |
| 19 | And then once Helen and that had woken up that was about half eleven she woke up and then it like , oh , our provisions and then we started talking and everything else together like |
| 20 | But the one I saw was about half past two . |
| 21 | It was called erm tt it was about half past ten I think last night , somewhere |
| 22 | Cos I was sort of like listening to my music and it was , I think it was about half eight , nine o'clock cos I 'd only got some homework done for ne , to do for next Tuesday , so I thought I 'll leave it |
| 23 | I thought it was about half three or something . |
| 24 | Oh , and bu by the way Margot was about half an hour late for work that morning and that was the story that we got . |
| 25 | Erm those are the only sort of figures we have and , but nineteen forty nine seemed to be a bad base state because it was about half so that meant that it exaggerate . |
| 26 | I du n no I thought it was about Half seven ? |