Example sentences of "have been half " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ would n't have been half the phenomenon it was without that promo vid . |
| 2 | Er it must have been half ten , eleven o'clock , if not later I suppose . |
| 3 | Just as , er just as well you did n't go out because erm you could have been half way out there in the plane or whate when erm |
| 4 | At the turn of the century industrial production in Belorussia had been half that of the average for Russia as a whole . |
| 5 | Towards dawn , she said to his sleeping back that he loved his employers more than he loved her and if he had been half the man he thought himself , he would have left them rather than abandon her . |
| 6 | It was an enormously thorough and comprehensive review of the case , running to four volumes and more than 1200 pages , yet it would have been better if it had been half the length and taken half the time . |
| 7 | It really was er of the sort , you know , if Cleopatra 's nose had been half an inch longer , history would have all been different , you know , that , that kind of trivia . |
| 8 | I 've wanted you all the time , that 's what 's been half the trouble , thinking I was never going to have you again . " |