Example sentences of "[conj] the other half " in BNC.
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| 1 | What will happen on Saturday is that the other half and kids will be banished to the shops , while he stays at home to watch the match in silence . |
| 2 | Under this scheme , half the seats would be shared between the established political parties , and the other half would go to ‘ non-party ’ people . |
| 3 | Half the lump sum would be paid then and the other half on April 1 . |
| 4 | With half his attention on the attic and the other half on the Bogeyman 's door , he slipped from his room and hurried downstairs . |
| 5 | The seeds , he says ‘ are flat and one half of a beautiful red colour and the other half of a deep black … the flowers have not yet appeared in England , but from a painting done from the plant in the country , they seem to be very beautiful . ’ |
| 6 | Half the doors , tables , beds and chairs were wooden and the other half metal . |
| 7 | Half of the record aspired towards the cacophony of grinding rock and the other half was still emphasising their pop flair . |
| 8 | Consequently the bureau is open for half the working week for individual problems and the other half is spent on a combination of community and social policy work . |
| 9 | — half the action sample clients with support worker involvement possessed all three , and the other half two out of three ; |
| 10 | R. A. Fisher started to solve the problem in 1930 with the straightforward observation that each of us gets about one-half of our genes from our mother and the other half from our father . |
| 11 | The farm extends to 120 acres , half owned outright and the other half rented , and most of it is pasture . |
| 12 | Early morning 's not my best time , specially when I 've spent half the night dreaming terrible dreams and the other half listening to some loon droning on about turtles in Japan — but it was great dawdling along by the river . |
| 13 | About half of these had been won from the moderate middle-class parties and were augmented by the vote of about 6 million new voters , half of whom were young people voting for the first time , and the other half of whom were people who up to now had been too weary , cynical or lacking in hope to vote at all . |
| 14 | On a typical multi-culture 100 acre farm , half of the land would be used for cropping and the other half for pasture . |
| 15 | It should be evident from the preceding section that the product of conception obtained half its genetic endowment from the father 's sperm , and the other half from the mother 's egg . |
| 16 | I think I made half the record with the Firebird and the other half with the Lazer . |
| 17 | However , despite the publicity given to the more extravagant claims about the impact of new technology on the level of unemployment , and the popular notion that the silicon chip is a job destroyer , a survey , published in 1979 , of some 400 documents on the effect of the new information technologies on employment showed ‘ how little foundation there is to existing studies , half of which are by pessimists ( often with a trade union background ) and the other half by optimists ( who tend to be on the employers ’ side ) ’ ( Institute for Research on Public Policy 1979 ) . |
| 18 | Roughly half of the students came from public schools and the other half from county or secondary schools . |
| 19 | With a chilling prophecy he then stated that it would be the task of a great leader , Hitler for preference , to march into Russia in the next five years and place one half of the population in the lethal chamber and the other half in the zoo . |
| 20 | And the other half , you know . |
| 21 | Half of them are directly elected in 248 territorial constituencies , and the other half are additional members indirectly elected by means of party-list votes . |
| 22 | Indeed it would be absurd if the following two cases were not treated the same : ( 1 ) A has two deposits each of £10,000 , and he assigns one deposit to B and the other to C ; and ( 2 ) A has one deposit of £20,000 , and he assigns one-half to B and the other half to C. |
| 23 | Mr Brownlow suggested that half the remaining money from the will should be given to Monks and the other half to Oliver , although by law it should all have gone to Oliver alone . |
| 24 | ‘ And the other half ? ’ |
| 25 | It was ludicrous : a customs officer living with a contraband child , spending half the day in a posture of specious confidence with one foot up on his inspection counter while he intimidated law-abiding passengers , and the other half knowing furtiveness and joy in smuggling around a small boy who was his own and licit son . |
| 26 | ROS : Half of what he said meant something else , and the other half did n't mean anything at all . |
| 27 | Dr Gerard fought back , by saying that he had seen a letter from Warburton to the printer , complaining that one half of Scotland 's clergy were fanatics , and the other half were infidels , but Johnson still gainsaid him ; Warburton , he believed , wrote as he spoke — without thinking ; ‘ Sir , the very worst way of being intimate , is by scribbling . ’ |
| 28 | There was a ‘ For Sale ’ sign outside , and at the time I was beginning to contemplate leaving Baldersdale — half of me wanted a more suitable place and the other half was telling me to stop at Low Birk Hatt . |
| 29 | half of it 's not true and the other half is lies . |
| 30 | And the other half used to go as a window leather which are called st |