Example sentences of "as half " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a little more many include fish treats such as half a dozen oysters in season ; waterzooi , fish cooked in a light stock and served with leeks and carrots ; a fillet of turbot or chunks of eel in a green herb sauce . |
| 2 | Numbers of maxillae are counted as half maxillae , so that two are present in categories A to C but only one in category D. All maxillary numbers in the tables of skeletal elements refer to half maxillae . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , the game was very close and as half time approached it took a piece of individual brilliance to put St Albans ahead . |
| 4 | Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse each audit 24½ ( joint audits counted as half to each firm ) , followed by KPMG Peat Marwick 20 , Ernst & Young 19 , Touche Ross 6 and Arthur Andersen 3 . |
| 5 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 6 | Working with a series of transparent resin models in polarized light , Marsh was able to show that a step was just as bad a stress concentrator as the equivalent crack , in fact it might be regarded as half a crack . |
| 7 | Taking over the brothel-like SW1 Club , it was Manc yobboes night out as half of the Hacienda descended on London . |
| 8 | One alcoholic drink is to be taken as half a pint of beer , one glass of wine , one small glass of sherry or one small measure of spirit . |
| 9 | Then the first man stalked forward , blasting several more shots into the car ; the radiator disappeared in a cloud of steam , the bonnet was blown off , and the car suddenly lurched downwards and circled as half the wheel nearest Howard was blown away . |
| 10 | And we saw the religious people , the religious men , who erm are the only people that are allowed to smoke drugs , you know , illegal drugs er things like marijuana , they 're actually allowed to because the people view them as half alive and half dead and that was interesting to see . |
| 11 | A smile was almost brought to Auguste 's face at the thought of Multhrop 's reaction as half the Imperial 's china vanished into medical detectives ' laboratories . |
| 12 | The market can close for the remainder of the trading day or for a much shorter period such as half an hour , depending on the exchange . |
| 13 | We need to make a bigger effort to respect each other , respect each other irrespective of differences , respect each other as women and as half of the human race . |
| 14 | The barman took the dive for cover as half the bar-counter went the way of all flesh , only faster . |
| 15 | We have abandoned restorative proctocolectomy after failed ileorectal anastomosis in patients with slow transit constipation as half have now requested pouch excision because of poor results . |
| 16 | By contrast , restorative proctocolectomy for slow transit constipation is now no longer recommended as half have had their pouch excised because they were dissatisfied with the functional results . |
| 17 | And as half of Scotland appears to have coughed and spluttered its way through October we 're looking for your calls on chest complaints this tuesday . |
| 18 | It takes your body about an hour , on average , to burn up one unit of alcohol , such as half a pint of beer . |
| 19 | But his ‘ green ’ Budget was condemned as half a figleaf to hide his party 's environmental shame . |
| 20 | We use it , and we find out that the square root of anything comes out as half of it . |
| 21 | Andy Stevenson 's powerful strike as half time approached was followed by an injury time free kick from Ian Helliwell . |