Example sentences of "from half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catering & Allied took presentations from half a dozen systems suppliers , and put three possibles on trial , but the two others were found to be too complex for the company 's purposes . |
| 2 | From half behind the screen she called , ‘ Tell me the gossip , darling . |
| 3 | There was no break in the mad traffic pouring from half a dozen streets ; no way to reach him . |
| 4 | I shelter his top in winter ; he gains from half a yard to two feet in height every summer and will , ere long , I doubt not , repay my care with his beauty and fragrance . |
| 5 | The time ranged from half an hour a day to 13 hours a day , depending on whether devolution was viewed as a separate activity concerned only with finance or whether it was seen as being curriculum driven and/or inseparable from all the activities performed by a head in a working day . |
| 6 | The plan aroused much interest and in 1842 James Beart Simonds was selected as lecturer from half a dozen candidates . |
| 7 | Most persistent of all was the hammering of the woodpeckers , for it was as though the dying of the trees had drawn woodpeckers from half the counties of England . |
| 8 | When you consider this organisation , bear in mind Poe 's description of the short story as ‘ a narrative that can be read at one sitting of from half an hour to two hours , that is limited to a certain unique and single effect to which every detail is subordinate . ’ |
| 9 | About 30 members from half a dozen London Amnesty Groups gather with Anita Pollock , South-West London MP on the steps of St Martin-in-the-Fields at the start of the Embassy Crawl |
| 10 | The birds can spot their targets from half a mile ( 0.8 km ) . |
| 11 | With wrong side of skirt facing you , pick up ‘ stitches ’ from half the top of skirt , putting them on to the needles that are in WP . |
| 12 | If you are hesitant about pruning flowered wood hard , some of the more vigorous varieties will reflect your hesitancy by sending out new growth from half way along old stems . |
| 13 | John Reid took the honours on Captain Horatius , who confirmed his liking for soft ground by stretching away by four lengths from Half A Tick . |
| 14 | The 1988 survey included for the first time results from saliva tests from half the children surveyed ; this double check may have encouraged them to be more honest about their smoking habits . |
| 15 | Among clearing banks ( the big high-street names ) and insurance companies the proportion of public-school products among directors actually rose from half in 1957 to three-quarters in 1970 . |
| 16 | In that case a lease for a period of six months from 10 June 1920 was expressed to continue from half year to half year until determined . |
| 17 | But however different these patterns may be , key ideas will be repeated in each , and by the time you have written down the key words referring to your topic from half a dozen texts , you will be halfway to having the skeleton articulated . |
| 18 | His skill at hunting living prey increased each day until he could stoop on a hare from half a mile away , judging its path and speeding his attack so that he hit it with such force that it was dead before his talons fully closed on it . |
| 19 | From half a lifetime later we have two fine marble statues , one ( fig. 171 ) certainly the work of Paionios , the other ( fig. 161 ) probably of Alkamenes . |
| 20 | Then in 1983 the Liberals formed an alliance with the new Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) and withdrew Liberal candidates from half the parliamentary constituencies to give the SDP a clear run . |
| 21 | The track of the animals seemed likely to take them within two hundred yards of their hiding place , so they should crawl out onto the plain to try to get a shot from half that range . |
| 22 | Which was ranged from half inch , to two inches , and then of course the mortices , and tenons , they had to be marked out . |
| 23 | From half an hour after training , to as long as twenty-four hours afterwards , it was possible to detect an increase in protein synthesis in the brain regions containing IMHV — a result which of course squared with the known amnestic effects of the inhibitors of protein synthesis . |
| 24 | We used to work there from half past twelve till five o'clock at night , taking the bucket out and put another bucket in because the buckets what they used to call the bushes what were connected to the links they used to wear and we used to have to take them , one of them out and used to have a big chain go right the way round and bring the , bring the buckets backwards and they used to loosen up all the , all the pins what used to go through the buckets in the , in the links , so we took them out and then they used to go up to the dock and br they put new bushes in . |
| 25 | It was small , and aware of the virtues of remaining small , lurking ambiguously between hotel and pub , and retaining its hold on the local bar custom while it lured in the fanatical fishermen from half the county for weekend indulgences and occasional contests . |
| 26 | From half way up the stairs Violet Sangston spoke nervously . |
| 27 | She works from half past seven until half past six at night . |
| 28 | The , they used to put a conductor on for peak time and then about nine o'clock the rear door was closed and the driver took over issuing tickets , taking money and then perhaps the conductor would come on from about twelve or two and then again , perhaps from half past four till half past six . |
| 29 | Her boyfriend found them in the back of his van , abandoned by someone months or years before their discovery , and they have collected chocolate stains from half eaten Minstrels and white smears from Quaker oats . |
| 30 | ‘ Sell me your daughter , Li Lu , ’ he cried when he reached the house , ‘ and I will release you from half your debt to me . ’ |