Example sentences of "about half [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deputy unit manager Phil Brown , who has taken responsibility for the computer system , says : ‘ We can do the stocktake in about half a day with the Psion Organiser . |
| 2 | If the incipient spin has progressed for more than about half a turn because the pilot has kept the stick back , applying the full opposite rudder must be a good thing because it helps to stop the rotation and to even up the stalling of the wings . |
| 3 | The Blue Guide lists almost 20 museums , churches and galleries within a circular area about half a mile across . |
| 4 | Britons now chomp their way through more than 27,000 tonnes a year — about half a kilo for every man , woman and child . |
| 5 | ‘ They are about half a mile or so away , ’ he replied , ‘ and , most important , they are our guns . |
| 6 | About half a mile away an attack is going in on a hill , I can see Commandos advancing up the slopes , shells burst a short distance in front of the forward troops , probably covering fire from the British Artillery . |
| 7 | I wore it just about half a dozen times , during which the button came off and the lining split . |
| 8 | Hidden in a bus and estimated to contain about half a ton of dynamite , the bomb ripped a wall of the nine-storey DAS building and badly damaged nearby buildings . |
| 9 | Hidden in a bus and estimated to contain about half a ton of dynamite , the bomb ripped a wall of the nine-storey DAS building and badly damaged nearby buildings . |
| 10 | At around 6am we heard heavy machinegun fire from the direction of the Deni , the investigative branch of the PDF , about half a mile from the commission headquarters and dangerously close to US and Panamanian civilian housing . |
| 11 | Three days later I was limping back from the village and was about half a mile from home when I saw a movement in the hedge . |
| 12 | With about half a mile to go Elliott decided that it was time to make a move , and in a matter of a few strides Phar Lap had stormed up from last to first . |
| 13 | In a similar way we can use the die figures for the early imperial bronze coinages minted at Corinth to calculate that the total value coined over a century was only about half a million denarii , or less than 5000 per year . |
| 14 | Last week the Abbey National , Halifax and Bradford & Bingley building societies lifted their fixed rate mortgage rates by about half a point . |
| 15 | The markets have already pushed up rates by about half a point in anticipation of a Tory defeat . |
| 16 | Our easily found gite at Trans-en-Provence was about half a mile from this road . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The resort centre is about half a mile away and it 's only a 5 minute walk to the sandy beach . |
| 19 | Photosynthesis probably began to evolve about half a billion years after the first living things appeared — about three billion years ago — and so the process of oxygenating the atmosphere began . |
| 20 | The mouth of the river seemed ten times its normal width , while about half a mile out to sea hundreds of trees stood upright , supported by their enormous roots , just as they had been carried down in the flood . |
| 21 | The water arrives via a long , straight mill race , about half a mile in length . |
| 22 | In the US , where the government is the only major backer , research has limped along at about half a million dollars a year . |
| 23 | At first the ramp was set up without any flat bottom or platforms and three feet of vert , the ramp remained like this for about half a year . |
| 24 | About half a dozen faithful female Christians kept the rector company at early service usually . |
| 25 | Having completed the steeplechase , I let the horse canter along for about half a kilometre , then I allow him to walk for nearly a whole kilometre , bearing in mind , you will most likely have to ‘ make up time ’ later on . |
| 26 | No system has been described in which positional signals have to be transmitted over more than about half a millimetre , or about 30–50 cells . |
| 27 | About half a millimetre behind the tip , the cells in the core become denser and begin to make the cartilage of the first element in the limb , the humerus . |
| 28 | I was unable to speak for about half a minute . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The ash-fall was thick enough to darken the sky , and about half a centimetre accumulated on the ground . |