Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] half [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been numerous attempts to mitigate this evil , from non-compulsory science-for-arts and arts-for-scientists , to the uneasy introduction of AS levels , each worth half an A level , to be taken in a wide variety of different subjects , not necessarily related to the student 's main subjects . |
| 2 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 3 | John Hales of Coventry , a bitter opponent of enclosures , wrote in 1549 that the bulk of them had occurred before the accession of Henry VII , and the Italian historian Polydore Vergil ( probably writing about 1530 ) , said of the proceedings of 1517 , that for half a century or more previously , sheep-farming nobles had tried to find devices to increase the income of their lands , and that to this end they had destroyed dwelling-houses and filled up the land with animals . |
| 4 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 5 | I find I can easily put things into perspective , see both sides of an issue , if I just sit around for a while and I probably do that for half an hour a day . |
| 6 | We will improve on that for half the gain . ’ |
| 7 | When it reaches us , we 'll have calm for half an hour . |
| 8 | I want a physio for a kid with cystic fibrosis , but she 's down in ITU and wo n't be free for half an hour . ’ |
| 9 | Well and he wants popping round when there 's nobody here and then I 've left some for half an hour . |
| 10 | I kept them interested for half an hour and now I ca n't even remember what I said . |
| 11 | But Leigh , trailing 20-0 after half an hour , produced some fine rugby highlighted by surging runs from props Tim Street and Tongan Lee Hansen . |
| 12 | The mower alters its fatal course not one half of half a degree . |
| 13 | Andropulos took his glass — a scotch and not a small one , and disposed of half the contents in one gulp . |
| 14 | ‘ Are you free in half an hour ? ’ |
| 15 | One new size has replaced two old ones , making it impossible for half the customers to get a correct fit . |
| 16 | More and more adults are discovering that ponies can give as much fun ( if not more ) than horses , and can do twice as much for half the price ! |
| 17 | Those are the facts about the state of manufacturing industry , and industrial disputes are at the lowest for half a century . |
| 18 | For a little more many include fish treats such as half a dozen oysters in season ; waterzooi , fish cooked in a light stock and served with leeks and carrots ; a fillet of turbot or chunks of eel in a green herb sauce . |
| 19 | It takes your body about an hour , on average , to burn up one unit of alcohol , such as half a pint of beer . |
| 20 | The market can close for the remainder of the trading day or for a much shorter period such as half an hour , depending on the exchange . |
| 21 | On the second round half the squadron scored hits , and by the end of the third only Finlayson , Delaforce and Rogers had failed . |
| 22 | DISTRIBUTES RUSSIAN LANGUAGE NETWARE 3.11 AT HALF THE US DOLLAR PRICE … |
| 23 | CARDINAL : The fair Quaker will be too hard for half a dozen antagonists . |
| 24 | The convergence of geopolitical events , of the consequences of the technology that has been fermenting in the post-war years , of new ideologies , of government processes are of a scale and significance unprecedented for half a century . |
| 25 | The linewidths of the components of 1,290 , 1,322 , and 1,435kms -1 remained nearly constant for half a year , indicating saturated maser emission , but the line-width of the 1,385kms -1 component varied with the flux density , S , roughly as S — 0.5 , suggesting an unsaturated maser . |
| 26 | In these cities it was not unusual for half the working population to be jobless , while the wages of those in work — including professional footballers — fell . |
| 27 | If he had bumped into anyone worthy of half a mention he would have told us . |
| 28 | I come now to what will be the first of many simplicities which I shall offer to you this afternoon ; for I am sure you already realise from what you know of my speakings and writings — and it will be all the more painfully obvious in half an hour 's time — that I am incurably simpliste . |
| 29 | The Ticket Desk at each venue is usually operational from half an hour before the performance . |
| 30 | Even if we multiply this by three to allow for the greater number who considered themselves adherents although they had not joined the Society , and then increase the resulting 200,000 to half a million to allow for more casual " hearers " , this is still not a large fraction of a population of 10 million . |