Example sentences of "and about half [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whisper it not at the British Heart Foundation , but we knew that , as well as the salt , into that dinner had gone a dozen eggs , a couple of pints of cream , half a pound of butter , a quarter-pound of sugar and about half a pint of Calvados . |
| 2 | The ash-fall was thick enough to darken the sky , and about half a centimetre accumulated on the ground . |
| 3 | He now not only re-introduced Elphege : he brought him back into his carefully limited and graded sequence of holy days at a very high level indeed , placing him among the Festivitates quae magnifice celebrantur , on a level with the Epiphany , the Purification and Annunciation , the Ascension , the Feast of St Gregory , and about half a dozen other main feasts of the Church year . |
| 4 | Building the form takes two sheets of 18mm Sterling board and about half a day . |
| 5 | A search was made for camp-stools , and about half a dozen were found . |
| 6 | Our accommodation is in holiday apartments set in pleasant grounds about 250 to 400 years inland from the sailing beach , and about half a mile south of the town centre . |
| 7 | It was during these anxious weeks of searching that Halim , our grave-robbing friend , took us to another of his Ming-porcelain burial-grounds , located several hours from Makassar and about half an hour 's march from the nearest hamlet . |
| 8 | The final creations weighed a mere ten kilograms , about the same as a top-class racing bike and about half the weight of most ATBs . |
| 9 | The main targets are damson-hop aphids , related to the common greenfly and about half the size of a grain of rice , which have developed immunity to pesticides . |
| 10 | Mozambique has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world , approximately 200 per 1,000 live births.4 Those who depend on emergency support because of war and drought number about 1,690,000 and about half the population is wholly or partially dependent on food aid . |
| 11 | A corresponding survey , carried out in Sweden in 1981 , found that orientation courses had only been evaluated in 8 libraries of 34 , one-third of the libraries had evaluated courses in manual information retrieval and about half the libraries with courses in computerized information retrieval had carried out some form of evaluation . |
| 12 | The technology requires less capital investment and about half the production time , and the panels are half the price , the company claims . |
| 13 | In regard to TEC courses , for example , these are offered by over thirty Welsh colleges , and the Polytechnic of Wales and about half the Institutes of Higher Education play a major role in the provision of courses leading to TEC higher awards . |
| 14 | It was mostly the head , and a grubby stub of spine and ribs , and about half the skin . |