Example sentences of "[adv] half the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Computers believed their silences were ‘ no ’ answers — right half the time . |
| 2 | Then a big rock began to move as well , and suddenly half the hillside was moving . |
| 3 | Another shelf is packed with new travel guides , all half the original price . |
| 4 | For example , IFS estimate that if the Department of Social Security had used the European Commission methodology , which uses expenditure rather than income , then in 1985 an extra 3.4 million people would have been found below half the national average . |
| 5 | On one occasion I had some winter clothes brought in and it did take up literally half the visit , sorting all that out , and arguing about what I could and could n't have . |
| 6 | And the videotape of Cal and me playing Bottom and Titania in A Midsummer Night 's Dream last year , with us collapsing in giggles when she tripped over a cobweb and brought down half the lights . |
| 7 | Ace , Defries and Johannsen could only watch as , almost in slow motion , Daak thrust out a fist to support his weight — and pushed down half the switches on the control panel . |
| 8 | Then you had a very sharp knife , er and you used to cut down half the what we called the face of the stack , you know , half the width of it . |
| 9 | They 're tying down half the British Army , for God 's sake . |
| 10 | For example , the effect of holding in memory a visual pattern made up by randomly filling in half the cells of a matrix ( with either 3 , 4 or 5 cells per side ) did not produce " general activation " in the same way as words were found to do . |
| 11 | He stood up , stony-faced , and was turning to the door when James Menzies held up his hand and said , ‘ Wait — wait — that is only half the business . ’ |
| 12 | If he bought compressed pellet hops he would have to use only half the amount compared to whole hops . |
| 13 | I draw attention to their provenance because commentators have focused on the family-magazine question , on the attempt , that is , to get the chapter past Katkov in some shape or form , and I think this is only half the story . |
| 14 | Deloitte has an impressive list of audit clients although its management consultancy practice is only half the size of Coopers . |
| 15 | Today the dominant question is whether a country that can draw on the manpower and technology of two advanced industrial countries could become too powerful to be accommodated inside the European Community where the leading nations , Britain , France and Italy , would have populations only half the size of a new Germany . |
| 16 | At the big Mevasseret absorption centre near Jerusalem , where there are 77 Russian families in different stages of acclimatization , only half the breadwinners are working . |
| 17 | But starting the Reformation was only half the battle : turning its principles into practicable policies and maintaining momentum in the face of opposition from determined vested interests was much more difficult . |
| 18 | The tucuxi is , however only half the length of the boto , and is thus less able to break out of gill-nets when captured . |
| 19 | According to one insider , local associations have still paid only half the £3m quota they were asked for in 1990 — leaving Lord Beaverbrook and friends increasingly reliant on donations from rich individuals . |
| 20 | This is only half the truth . |
| 21 | Nigel was left with just one woman in his life to torment , which was only half the fun . |
| 22 | It is to remind ourselves of the radical demands of God , and to realize that to call the Christian gospel ‘ good news ’ is to concentrate on only half the story . |
| 23 | Because they were only half the size of a mature Thoroughbred , they were not tall enough to see over their stable doors or internal walls so that when someone opened the stable doors , the weanlings would attempt to climb the walls in sheer terror ! |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Foundation would need only half the total area . |
| 27 | Now , only half the company 's revenue comes from mainframes : the new strategy means selling smaller machines , based on industry standard ‘ open ’ operating software . |
| 28 | In Orkney , where distance was a problem , only half the wives could have tackled an emergency on their own . |
| 29 | Indeed , a number of studies have shown that the rate of relapse following CBT is only half the rate for clients taking anti-depressants . |
| 30 | The trade magazine Electrical Review even did a calculation which showed that if only half the official objectors spoke for just fifteen minutes the hearings would continue well into 1990 . |