Example sentences of "[v-ing] half [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1941 and 1947 , Rank 's companies were to be responsible for financing half the films made in Britain . |
| 2 | ‘ I can not believe you were here , in Roma , while I was employing half the detectives in New York to find you ! ’ |
| 3 | Membership of the Party increased dramatically to , to two million people and then the masses under leadership again saying there was , they 're , they 're looking at about ten million , and they 're saying half the peasants in the are organized , that these are , are people who are , who , who are at the forefront of the , of the movement , involvement is , is very high . |
| 4 | The greatest concentration of bobbin mills was in the Furness district of what was then north Lancashire , and in the mid-nineteenth century more than fifty mills were at work in the region , making half the bobbins used in the entire textile industry of Britain . |
| 5 | Well if you 've had enough that 's it then we 'll lose it and we do n't do anything else cos we ca n't keep doing that leaving half a bits and that , this and that |
| 6 | I realised I was missing half the jokes , so I mugged up from a textbook — and here I am , ready for more ! ’ |