Example sentences of "in half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stocktake can be done in half a day with the Psion Organiser |
| 2 | The four legs and four rails that will make up the seat-jointing section are cut oversize so that they can be cut in half . |
| 3 | Cut this waste in half and cramp it to the opposite corner of the block , and drill a 1–1/4in diameter hole where the pieces meet . |
| 4 | In half an hour she felt a lot better , but I knew now it would be my job to see her safely down to the hut . |
| 5 | One might not expect sawing a Renault 5 in half to constitute part of an electronics research project , but that 's what they call it at sub-basement level , below the Strand . |
| 6 | The rise bucked the trend , caused by over-supply and stagnant demand , which has depressed cocoa prices to their lowest in real terms in half a century . |
| 7 | ARCOLECTRIC 'S shares tumbled 20p to 113p on a fall in half year pre-tax profits from £320,000 to £128,000 . |
| 8 | That 'll leave it wide open for the supermarket boys to market a ‘ free-range acorn-fed pork ’ — an intensively bred pig , fattened up in woods in half the time and costing well under an eighth of the price . ’ |
| 9 | Doctors at the Royal Marsden Hospital and St Bartholemew 's Hospital , London , have discovered that a cocktail of anti-leukaemia drugs achieved complete remission in half the patients and a response in another quarter . |
| 10 | Small enough for a coach party to whip through in half an hour , but good enough to occupy the more patient visitor for an afternoon or more , the princely town house stands beside a broad pond in the heart of the city . |
| 11 | Belorussian industrial capacity had been split in half by the World War and its consequences . |
| 12 | He once locked two visiting American soldiers inside the cathedral one evening and promised to come to let them out in half an hour but forgot to come . |
| 13 | ‘ It is a macabre thought ’ , wrote Monica Furlong in the Spectator ( 30 June ) , ‘ that if the Canterbury Special had crashed last Tuesday morning it would have wiped out at one go practically the whole of the English episcopate together with numerous foreign archbishops and bishops , most of the Orthodox patriarchs , the leaders of the Lutheran Churches in half a dozen countries of Europe and the heads of our own Free Churches . ’ |
| 14 | I come now to what will be the first of many simplicities which I shall offer to you this afternoon ; for I am sure you already realise from what you know of my speakings and writings — and it will be all the more painfully obvious in half an hour 's time — that I am incurably simpliste . |
| 15 | This makes it difficult if the band is split in half with both sides wanting to use the band 's original name . |
| 16 | At last , from the thin end of the egg , a rounded point appeared , and , three evenings later , in the bath , the egg had suddenly split in half . |
| 17 | See you in half an hour , then ? ’ |
| 18 | But being a nationalised company the chairman 's salary was fixed and the £80,000 annual remuneration Pearce was receiving as chairman of Esso was cut in half overnight . |
| 19 | For the concomitant of Callinicos ' critique of postmodernism is not , as it would be in half a hundred other cases , the defence of modernism . |
| 20 | A huge row in the Modena camp resulted in half the team — including drivers Phil Hill and Giancarlo Baghetti — walking out and forming ATS ( Automobili Turismo e Sport ) . |
| 21 | Compare the calories in half a fresh grapefruit ( 20–25 calories ) to the same weight of tinned segments in natural juice ( 40–45 calories ) or in syrup ( 80 calories ) ! |
| 22 | Score on the wrong side and then fold the card in half . |
| 23 | Score card on the wrong side and then fold in half . |
| 24 | Cut the melon in half and scoop out the seeds , which are slippery and stringy . |
| 25 | Cut the watermelon in half and scoop away as many black seeds as possible from the flesh . |
| 26 | Remove any damaged outer leaves from the lettuce , cut it in half , then place cut side down on a board and thinly shred each half , using a sharp knife . |
| 27 | Cut the melon in half and scoop out the seeds . |
| 28 | Slice a French stick in half lengthways and brush the bread with olive oil . |
| 29 | Cut in half and add to bowl . |
| 30 | That grievous bodily harm thing was coming up at a special court this morning , but that ought to be all wrapped up in half an hour . |