Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout , exports met only about half of their cost . |
| 2 | This movement was transmitted to cranks on the rear wheel by connecting rods ; the machine weighed almost exactly half a hundredweight and the physical effort required to ride it must have been very considerable . |
| 3 | Junior creditors got just over half , and preference shareholders the rest — all at the expense of senior creditors . |
| 4 | Product wages probably accelerated only about half as much in the largest firms as in the smallest , thus facilitating the expansion of the former as the latter were knocked out . |
| 5 | Bill came home about half past one . |
| 6 | and er anyway he got home about half past three so we had to go down to Marks went down to Marks , came back and he bought me a sandwich , I said I 've eaten nothing all day , bought me this sandwich , I was hoping to go away at six |
| 7 | In just two years Opren captured well over half the market for drugs to treat arthritis . |
| 8 | Ace half turned back to the shuttle , pointed towards the sprouting hemisphere ( like chunks of cheddar stuck all over half a grapefruit , she thought ) , and aimed the suit towards the shape that looked like the nose of an asteroid cruncher . |
| 9 | The employee was an airline pilot employed by a company established in Great Britain , but he spent just over half his flying days outside Great Britain . |
| 10 | It has been calculated that while Stapledon spent just under half his time before the 1320s in his diocese , once he became treasurer barely a tenth of his time was passed at Exeter ; he relied instead upon the machinery of deputies to maintain his authority and execute his wishes there . |
| 11 | Non-oil exports constituted just under half the total export figure , rising by 8.5 per cent , compared with 10 per cent growth in 1989 . |
| 12 | The privatized companies had together employed well over half a million people when the Conservatives came to power . |
| 13 | I got here about half an hour ago , and your sister gave me some tea . ’ |
| 14 | On this basis , Mr Davies , a local Transport and General Workers Union official , will have captured the nomination if he took just over half of Ms Wilson 's vote when it was redistributed in the second ballot . |
| 15 | And in the September 1957 election the FDP seemed to have chosen the wrong course when its share of the vote fell below 8 per cent , whilst the CDU — strengthened by the 1957 pension reform — won just over half the votes cast . |
| 16 | The dominant trade was the production and processing of woollen cloth , crafts that engaged well over half the adult male population at the end of the Elizabethan era . |
| 17 | Like most cars with double-flight stairs , these had very short half canopies , with wooden roller blind destination boxes , each mounted on three stanchions above the end hand rail . |
| 18 | In such conditions you can fish the river as if it were a canal , with very little weight either spread equally down the line , or grouped just below half way with a dropper about twelve inches above the hook . |
| 19 | The fire by which Jotan sat lit only half the clearing and left the rest in shadow . |