Example sentences of "[verb] about half " in BNC.
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| 1 | One rather unusual feature is the Whin Common , which lies about half a mile to the north of the village . |
| 2 | When discovered , the wreck was thought to be another English naval ship , the Dartmouth , most of which lies about half a mile away . |
| 3 | During the summer of 1987 , Coleman helped identify 25 Lebanese laboratories with a combined annual output of six or seven metric tons of refined heroin , representing about half the country 's gross national product . |
| 4 | That covers about half of the erm of the county . |
| 5 | But , even though it has about half the population of a city like Leeds , the people there speak a total of three languages ! |
| 6 | The 130,000 tonnes of litter consumed each year has about half the calorific value of coal . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | In the Czech Lands Civic Forum won about half the total votes , and in Slovakia PAV emerged as the clear winner , although the latter had been expected until shortly before the election to come second to the CDM . |
| 10 | Databases have continued to grow : the Land Survey borehole database now contains about half a million lithological records from just over 90 000 boreholes , and the structural database contains data from more than 11 000 sites . |
| 11 | Well shipping Angus , so you know when the dredgers go on er er er creeping ahead , see we used to have er what we call the head wire there used to be a wire which was all stretched out say about half a mile and what you s and erm and all according what erm how much mud you were dredging for the depth of water and then my father would give the signal to say right , cos on the , on the head wire used to have a pull , we call the pulls and they were like er a jutted piece off the wheel and he 'd say five pulls ahead and we 'd say one two three four five right and we went ahead with it and then when we were dredging sidewards you see , used to sidewards , you never went ahead with it , not all the time you c you went sidewards across the river , and erm once you got ahead your side chains they moving up cos you got so far ahead th that the side chains were n't much good to you , so you had to then move your side chains so you got a little off the mud in an old boat and then re further up the river . |
| 12 | Say about half ten eleven . |
| 13 | The Mason reached over and snatched the purse , emptying about half of the contents into his own hand . |
| 14 | Claimed about half of it . |
| 15 | And then some at Jailside Parkses and in the , during the winter months we used to , we had a spot to meet about half a dozen of us from the various factories , because we were afraid to walk home through and that way er because men used to wait in Lane . |
| 16 | He put me on a stretcher , had me carried about half a mile across fields to an ambulance , which in turn took me down to the local advanced dressing station . |
| 17 | Porsche 's engineers reckon that although the car can corner safely at about 85% of gravitational acceleration , most owners will only need about half of that ability for normal , but still very fast motoring . |
| 18 | They send about half this size . |
| 19 | she 's just an arse , ai n't you , you 're just an arse , I 'll speak to you later right , I do n't know about half past seven , eight o'clock , right here 's Jan . |
| 20 | I recollect about half past ten that evening on the fourth . |
| 21 | He 'll want to know about half that bank account , fifteen thousand pounds . |
| 22 | Taq I does not cleave the 225bp amplification product found in patient A ( lane 3 ) , but cleaves about half of the product in his carrier mother ( lane 2 ) . |
| 23 | I watch I 'll probably watch about half an hour tonight , an hour tomorrow night . |
| 24 | The men earn about half a crown per day in summer , and two shillings in winter ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ They would like to arrest about half the squadron , ’ he said . |
| 26 | So you your end of Sunday came about half past eight when the church closed down , cos services did n't start too early in those days , at six thirty , I think . |
| 27 | Came about half ten , so I do n't know what time I went down the Rave 's , be that time . |
| 28 | The grants announced yesterday cover about half of the funding for the higher education sector . |
| 29 | As to the liquor , it filled about half the coffin and in it ‘ feathers , flowers , and herbs in abundance were floating , the leaves and stalks of which appeared quite perfect , but totally discoloured ’ . |
| 30 | It had around three times the membership of the CFDT and received about half of the votes cast in enterprise committee elections . |