Example sentences of "about half [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos it 'll actually take me till about half past the day to get any feeling in it , but as I say |
| 2 | The reduction in the number of Cabinet meetings ( 45 — 50 per annum , about half of the post-war norm ) , and of Cabinet papers ( 60 — 70 , or one-sixth of the figure in the 1950s ) , and the appointment of fewer Cabinet committees have reduced the opportunities for collective deliberation . |
| 3 | In Scotland about half of the 600 boats currently operating could be severely affected . |
| 4 | It is one of the world 's most unequal societies , with rich landowners on the fertile lowlands and illiterate Indians ( about half of the population , speaking 20 separate languages ) scraping a living in the Mayan highlands . |
| 5 | Mr Matthews reckons that about half of the banks ' retained earnings comes from securities gains . |
| 6 | The ministry of labour suspects that about half of the unemployed have indeed been laid off , but other evidence suggests that at least in some parts of the country the proportion is much lower . |
| 7 | The last five years have seen the DUP establish itself as the voice of about half of the unionist population . |
| 8 | At 99 Bishopsgate , the home of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank , about half of the windows must be replaced at a cost of up to £300,000 . |
| 9 | About half of the programme is devoted to Commons business . |
| 10 | But there is some duplication in the figures of government revenues , because in the years covered by the table about half of the gross revenues of the republics and provinces was transferred to the federation ( where it again appears as revenue ) . |
| 11 | According to Eknomska politika ( 20 July 1987 ) , these agreements covered at that time about half of the value of exports to the convertible currency area , so that only about half of these exports were generating an inflow of foreign exchange . |
| 12 | About half of the people detained under Immigration Act powers in general do not wish to challenge the decision that they should leave but they need help winding up their affairs here , contacting their friends and families and pressing the Home Office to process their cases quickly so that they do not have to spend unnecessarily long periods in prison . |
| 13 | A recent analysis from Jones Lang Wootton shows that demand for business space is still growing faster in the south east than in other regions with about half of the firms surveyed looking for premises outside London . |
| 14 | For these species , therefore , about half of the bones expected to be present , based on the numbers of prey animals consumed over a measured period , were recovered from the pellets . |
| 15 | About half of the instances in other jurists seem to be the work of the compilers . |
| 16 | The appendices alone account for about half of the book . |
| 17 | Nearly threequarters of firewood and about half of the dung in urban India is purchased . |
| 18 | I practised on about half of the remaining tables while the two other dining-room stewards , the real regular service attendants ; Oliver and Cathy , set the rest . |
| 19 | About half of the sixty-five guests had wandered through into the lecture hall , but since Anthea was due to give the address and she was still talking to the professor , there was time to spare . |
| 20 | Understandably , perhaps , the novelty of a new event in the school 's weekly calendar caused quite a stir , and about half of the school ( the younger , more excitable half ) arrived at the sports hall early , before the supervising teachers had arrived from their early morning staff briefing . |
| 21 | Pour in about half of the stock , add chocolate and stir gently until melted . |
| 22 | Of that hour , about half of the time will be spent taking notes of the patient 's problem and explaining about hypnosis in general and regression in particular . |
| 23 | About half of the 12 sections pass the authenticity and interest test with ease . |
| 24 | I had given about half of the statement to a copy stenographer by telephone ( a normal procedure ) when a man with a southern or midland English accent intervened . |
| 25 | About half of the emigrants and all of the heavy cargo went by sea and by then numerous clippers were prepared to beat regularly from New York to San Francisco in a hundred days . |
| 26 | It seems that the police record about two-thirds of the property crime that comes to their attention , and about half of the violent crime . |
| 27 | About half of the letters are published , usually without external peer review as we publish as letters only those that relate to matters raised in the journal within the past six weeks . |
| 28 | About half of the papers are rejected after being read by two editors without being sent for external peer review . |
| 29 | About half of the KC expressed high levels of E-cadherin . |
| 30 | Comparison of the C-terminal regions of DRP and the dystrophins ( Fig. 2 ) shows that this region is highly conserved with an 80 per cent exact match and about half of the remaining residues conserved . |