Example sentences of "[adv] half [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In 1988 43 per cent of single pensioners were living on incomes below half of the average and more than two in three of them were women . |
| 2 | For the quinquennium 1982–83 to 1986–87 , i.e. after the major phases of absorption of other large courses , it has remained just below half of the FTE students in the Polytechnic . |
| 3 | You 'd put your hundred and twenty five thousand pounds down , you 'd also put down half of the jointly owned property because you could have dealt with that while you were alive and you 'll end up paying large amounts of inheritance tax . |
| 4 | Furthermore half of the patients with some features of Crohn 's disease have been labelled as indeterminate colitis because the pathological features were not entirely diagnostic . |
| 5 | He was standing on the edge of the group that included Flavia Sherman , Jacques and Paul Devraux and half-a-dozen Moi trackers , but his mind was only half on the hunt to come . |
| 6 | But if a system has a single definite history , the uncertainty principle leads to all sorts of paradoxes , like the particles being in two places at once or astronauts being only half on the moon . |
| 7 | Isabel nodded , although her mind was only half on the conversation . |
| 8 | Moreover , each patch has to be walked by two men : one providing cover for the other while he polices his beat , so that each spends only half of the shift on their particular area . |
| 9 | Confused data on peasant landownership and family size made it virtually impossible to make accurate assessments , so that for many provinces only half of the taxable land per head was in fact recorded in the tax lists . |
| 10 | But then they would have to tell shareholders why only half of the consolidated profits of MEPC comes from the 700 properties it has assembled — with the other half provided by the 20 or so Oldham properties . |
| 11 | This is possible because only half of the tape 's width travels past the heads on each run . |
| 12 | But the amazing looks are only half of the story ; National made these instruments specifically to be the loudest acoustic guitars in existence — and they succeeded . |
| 13 | Only half of the young people actually exercised their right to vote . |
| 14 | In a recent survey , only half of the women trying for a baby conceived within six months , while a quarter took up to one year . |
| 15 | Only half of the employers interviewed in Leicester , Sunderland and St Albans thought that qualifications were useful as ‘ yardsticks of a candidate 's ability ’ ( ibid. , p. 55 ) . |
| 16 | Only half of the men and a third of the women had indulged in intercourse before their twentieth birthday and only about two thirds before their twenty-fourth birthday . |
| 17 | For example : students hear only half of the dialogue on tape and have to supply the missing lines ; students take notes and then give an account of what happened ; students act out what happened from memory ; students answer questions about the dialogue . |
| 18 | In another study , Johansen and Fuguitt ( 1984 ) from a sample of 572 of the 11,334 villages in the USA ( defined as a population of less than 2,500 in 1960 ) found that while only half of the villages had grown in the 1950s , two-thirds had grown in the 1970s , and that this growth was no longer restricted to the larger villages . |
| 19 | The requirement that the consignor 's name be stated was only half of the document of title equation . |
| 20 | Lee Winters , manageress of the Corbrige Fund , is considering engaging in index arbitrage , but has discovered that she will initially receive only half of the proceeds from short selling shares , that is , f = 0.5 . |
| 21 | Only half of the counter had opened up at this early hour and there were no more than half a dozen people in the place , most of them in uniform . |
| 22 | And , if I do , does this mean that should one of us die , only half of the loan will be paid off ? |
| 23 | He opposed the new clause because it would cover only half of the Scottish bus industry — that half which the Bill will privatise . |
| 24 | Only half of the libraries that returned questionnaires could say that they had considered how automation would affect the way they could continue to contribute information about holdings to the SUC . |
| 25 | Not uncommonly only half of the sieves required may be mounted on the shaker at a time , so the pan residue from the coarser fraction is released into the upper sieve of the finer part of the nest in order to complete the analysis . |
| 26 | The research found that the take up of prepared training material occurred in only half of the boards studied . |
| 27 | Hence the best lattice is referred to as Q100 ( the correct word was present among each of the candidates ) and the worst lattice used is Q50 ( only half of the words that were written are found in the lattice ) . |
| 28 | Only half of the loan was to be released initially , and the remainder in two instalments by 1993 , conditional upon the success in meeting targets , which included a reduction in inflation from the present annualized rate of over 20 per cent to less than 10 per cent by 1993 , and a reduction of the public-sector deficit . |
| 29 | However , an EC threat to contribute only half of the amount deemed necessary for Bulgaria and Romania ( respectively $800 million and $1,000 million ) did not materialize , as EC Finance Ministers , meeting separately , had already decided on aid to these countries without the precondition of equal contributions from their G-24 partners . |
| 30 | Pitt managed to collect only half of the £10 million he had anticipated in 1799 , but better results were to be achieved when Henry Addington took over the Treasury and reshaped the taxation of incomes in his budgets of 1803 and 1804 . |