Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] half [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want it done in half the time , you 've got to have twice as many people . |
| 2 | Kathleen and I then took the next train back to Harwich and when we arrived , it seemed like half the port wanted to know what had happened . |
| 3 | Last year , it cut by half the quota allocated to foreign fleets ; a further reduction of 35 per cent is due in 1991 . |
| 4 | That would explain why it appears in half the songs , which apparently deal with starvation , AIDS and the end of the world along the way , although we 'll have to take the press release 's word for that . |
| 5 | It looked like half a letter T. The needle was so bent that I knew I knew that I would not be able to remove it in the usual way , so I took my heavy pliers ( the ones with which I behead the Passap/Pfaff needles when they got damaged ) and cut off the top of the needle , below the bend . |
| 6 | How far can it go in half an hour ? |
| 7 | It took about half an hour . |
| 8 | It took about half an hour for the wave riders to travel from Minsterworth to Gloucester . |
| 9 | This is because the European Community dumps low-quality beef , at great cost to the European taxpayer , on West African markets , where it sells at half the price of locally produced beef . |