Example sentences of "of [adv] half " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Different manufacturers claim widely different life expectancies for both materials , but you can reasonably expect a five-year life from most types ( but as some manufacturers claim a life of only half this , and others double , check before you buy ) . |
| 2 | But , first , you can see the whole stage — and even today houses are being built with seats that have a view of only half the stage ! — and second , it is acoustically marvellous for the audience and the conductor ; for opera and for concerts , especially choral concerts . |
| 3 | Thus the cortex on one side contains a map of only half the visual field , but it contains two versions of that map , one from each eye , superimposed on one another . |
| 4 | Examples of this are nowadays quoted in most of the newspapers — the 25–30 year-old trader who is earning £200 000–£400 000 whilst the person who runs the whole department may be on a salary of only half this . |
| 5 | Liberal Democrat To keep up with the growth of the elderly population LibDems are hoping to increase health expenditure by two per cent compared to what they claim is a current increase of only half a per cent . |
| 6 | As the Guardian noted , the report gave the Energy Secretary , then Peter Walker , all he needed to ‘ initiate the family of perhaps half a dozen similar stations ’ . |
| 7 | Early in 1983 , a consensus seemed to be emerging among theorists using computer models of the atmosphere that this material , now spreading across the northern hemisphere , would lead to a cooling of perhaps half a degree Centigrade , with the peak effect occurring in the late summer of 1983 or the winter of 1983–84 . |
| 8 | I realised , to my embarrassment , that I had eaten the equivalent of exactly half a cake . |
| 9 | Illustrations and photographs can be maximised to full screen size if required , or set up to load as a full screen image every time instead of just half screen . |
| 10 | Sort of past half way . |
| 11 | Unlike Poland or Hungary , East Germany has no nationalism upon which to fall back , as the dogmas of nearly half a century evaporate . |
| 12 | Reuters Between chimes of Jingle Bells , the Holly and the Ivy and other festive tunes , we Brits nibble our way through the equivalent of nearly half a billion 50g packets of nuts from October until the New Year . |
| 13 | Early in December it channelled its supporters ' energies into a mass petition calling for the implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Northern Ireland , obtaining the signatures of nearly half the population of the city . |
| 14 | Type Report on Yugoslav Spitfires by Peter Arnold in the April issue ( p70 ) evoked many memories for me and caused me to rummage around for some half-forgotten photos of nearly half a century ago , and there it was , Mk VcJK808 ‘ B ’ with yours truly in attendance . |
| 15 | The educational achievements of nearly half of all those completing the compulsory school period in the United Kingdom leave a lot to be desired . |
| 16 | The return for North Marston in Buckinghamshire is unique in giving the ‘ addresses ’ of nearly half the absentee landowners ; a few more are supplied in half a dozen other villages there , but in general examples are rare and isolated . |
| 17 | Sharks , when the current is in their favour , can smell blood issuing from a body at a distance of nearly half a kilometre . |
| 18 | In other words , there would be an overall decline of nearly half a million people ( that is , 380,000+ 100,000 ) drawing means-tested support . |
| 19 | This structural advantage was offset by the transfer of nearly half a million industrial jobs under government regional policy , 1945–65 , to assisted areas of the ‘ periphery ’ ; these areas were again defined essentially as sub-regions , namely , much of the Clyde Valley , the north-east coast of England , South Wales and Cornwall , together with Merseyside . |
| 20 | When we add to this in turn the effect of nearly half of all women working ‘ part-time ’ , then the average income of all households where the married woman was working was only about 40 per cent higher than where the married woman was not working . |
| 21 | The Constituency Parties Association , of which Cripps was Chairman , had gained the active support of nearly half the constituency Labour Parties for its proposed revisions of the Party Constitution . |
| 22 | After the passage of nearly half a century , how easy it is to criticise the decision taken by a general in the midst of a most desperate battle . |
| 23 | It 's that in the period April ninety one to September ninety one there has been under recovery of VAT of nearly half a million pounds , will wait until they recover it of which two er twenty six thousand is the true result of the South West Region of twenty six thousand pounds just over twenty one and a half thousand pounds related to job club fees , with all staff responsible for organising rosters even sure they are around the content of appendix one , section four , and that that correctly identified in cages , Margaret Cornwall . |
| 24 | I think it 's absolutely scandalous the local authority can use government money to the extent of nearly half a million pounds to provide a site for about sixteen caravans , and I do n't think it 's at all necessary . |
| 25 | The last five years have seen the DUP establish itself as the voice of about half of the unionist population . |
| 26 | With the Atlantic Ocean floor spreading away in opposite directions from the ridge , Iceland is getting wider at a rate of about half a centimetre per year , so a lot of new material has to be added continuously in the zone of tension in the middle , or else the two halves would soon be completely separated . |
| 27 | For the United States , this has been part of its purpose as an aspect of counter-insurgency policy : to prevent the mass of the population defecting to the FMLN and its allies , and to deal with the social and economic costs of about half a million displaced persons . |
| 28 | One of the sideshows had a two-inch thick scaffold board into the top of which five-inch nails had been driven to a depth of about half an inch . |
| 29 | The container should have a water depth of about half to three quarters of an inch . |
| 30 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |