Example sentences of "half time " in BNC.

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1 The tax for a property in the highest band will be about two and a half times that for one in the lowest band .
2 On any day towards the end of the campaign , those who had been very interested in politics just before the campaign opened were one and a half times as likely to read a paper , and twice as likely to watch both BBC-TV and ITV news , as those with no interest in politics ( Chapter 3 ) .
3 Their volume of production was one and a half times greater , and they were engaged chiefly in clothing , woodwork , skins , and agricultural repairs .
4 In August , 1920 , the average cost of a local authority house was £930 , about two and a half times as much as before the war .
5 The total real value of exports from a selection of seven African countries rose three and half times from 1907 to 1928 , a further five times from 1928 to 1959 and a further four times from 1959 to 1982 .
6 The offer of shares in the group , which was listed on the USM this week , has been two and a half times oversubscribed .
7 In the last ten years the number of phone calls from Britain to other European countries has multiplied two and half times .
8 Over the same distance , people use two and a half times more energy ( per kilogram of their bulk ) than the average camel .
9 This is not uncommon in the South East and well within the building society norm of two and a half times income .
10 And at Watercombe on 5 May the River Yealm was found to have two and a half times the permitted level of aluminium .
11 It reached staggering heights at Boston Park Square ( 1872–4 ) , Worcester , Massachusetts ( 1875–6 ) , Indianapolis Union ( 1886–9 ) , and supremely at Waterbury , Connecticut ( 1909 ) , perhaps the last example , where the campanile duplicated the height of the station building some two and a half times .
12 A selection of pre-1700 books fetched two and a half times its valuation ; a sale of duplicate art portfolios and fine printing had the ‘ big boys ’ from London falling over each other …
13 The ship , carrying two and a half times its normal load of passengers , was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland at 6 a. m. on 2 July 1940 .
14 AN Alton man , who was caught driving while more than two and a half times over the legal alcohol limit , has been banned from the roads for 22 months .
15 Those aged above 60 have a pedestrian casualty rate per head of population which is nearly double that of the 20–39 age group , whilst their greater likelihood of dying from a particular accident gives them a fatality rate six and one half times higher .
16 If we compare our rates with the best , they were double those of the Netherlands in 1979 as we have seen , and by 1985 had worsened to two and one half times the Dutch rates .
17 It was calculated from a breath test taken then that he was nearly one and a half times over the limit for driving at the time of the accident .
18 Remember that accountants and business executives have two and a half times the average death rate from alcohol-related diseases ( doctors , incidentally , have three times the rate ) .
19 He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor .
20 The relative risk of an overweight baby becoming an overweight 5-year-old is about two and a half times more than for a normal weight baby .
21 It can be seen that the trie was in fact faster to search than the reduced memory tree in all three cases , however it uses more memory ( approximately one and a half times as much as the reduced memory tree ) .
22 Boots ( retail division ) may consider giving employees moving from low-cost to high-cost areas a loan of up to a maximum of one and a half times the employee 's expected first year 's gross salary .
23 The Russia of 1880 lifted less than 1.5 per cent of Europe 's coal ; to the greatly enlarged production of 1900 she contributed 3.6 per cent — about four and a half times as much .
24 The tax-free lump sum , if you choose to take it , can not be more than one and a half times salary .
25 Prior to the 1987 Budget , the only restriction that applied was that the maximum was set at one and a half times salary .
26 In addition , as users pay one and a half times more per MIPS on an upgrade than on a new machine , their investment is not protected .
27 Banks which are strong in areas that typically produce long-standing relationships with customers sell at even higher multiples to book : investors pay two and a half times book value for Boston 's State Street and Chicago 's Northern Trust , for example , which specialise in trust services and asset management .
28 DEC UK 's workstation product manager , Tom Yeates , says sales of VAXstations running VMS exceeded targets by two and a half times over the last quarter , something it attributes to increased confidence in VMS due to the launch of the Alpha chip .
29 A person 25 per cent over their normal weight range has a two and a half times greater chance of having a heart attack , hypertension , or a stroke .
30 Even after the market had absorbed the many drawings and watercolours in the McCarty-Cooper sale ( at good prices ) , a Picasso drawing of 1904–5 from Sotheby 's Sidney E. Cohn estate ‘ Etude pour l'acteur et deux profils de Fernando ’ brought $825,000 ( £452,000 ) two and a half times estimates .
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