Example sentences of "[adj] of half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andropulos took his glass — a scotch and not a small one , and disposed of half the contents in one gulp . |
| 2 | If he had bumped into anyone worthy of half a mention he would have told us . |
| 3 | However , the most distinctive part was not the chalk uplands but the little Thames-side hundred of Stoke , lying on the richest soil and closest to London , where little short of half the aggregate wealth belonged to just a dozen men — 2½ per cent of the listed inhabitants — rated at £40 and upwards , indeed practically one-third belonged to the five rated at £100 or more . |
| 4 | For that year the comparable figure fell just short of half a million at 498,576 . |
| 5 | Whatever worries the LG family may have had were dispelled when Megan polled only 300 votes short of half the total cast . |
| 6 | The Survey makes this point very clearly by showing that not far short of half of all defective items issued ( 42% ) were modern , 20th Century publications , a fact which underlines the danger of assuming that priority should automatically be given to the treatment of older material . |