Example sentences of "half that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , they have D-marks , though their pay is less than half that in the west , and in principle full rights under the constitution . |
| 2 | Although the number of cases of sudden infant death syndrome ( SIDS ) in the UK in 1992 was half that in 1991 ( 456 vs 912 , respectively ) , SIDS remains the commonest cause of death in babies older than 1 week . |
| 3 | Still , Thomas Brassey the railway entrepreneur , speaking with the voice of business common sense , observed of serfdom that the crop yield in servile Russia was half that in England and Saxony and less than in any other European country , and of slavery that it was ‘ obviously ’ less productive than free labour and more expensive than people thought , bearing in mind the cost of purchase or of rearing and maintenance . |
| 4 | The office reports that the birth rate in danger areas is less than half that in other regions , and in Lodz the death rate is higher than the birth rate . |
| 5 | It was because the moment of decision was approaching that they were up here on the hill of Dumyat , six miles from Thorfinn 's muster-point at Dunblane , and half that from the crag on the Forth beside which , on one side or another , Thorfinn would take his stand against any Northumbrian advance out of Lothian . |