Example sentences of "be that [adv] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crucial difference , however , is that over half of this amount went on defence ( which is comparable to the USA ) whereas in the EEC the proportion was one-quarter and in Japan zero . |
| 2 | Health and safety cour training courses according to these reports these are poorly attended with a majority below forty percent but more worrying than that is that nearly half of G M B safety reps said they 'd not received a copy of the safety rep 's kits . |
| 3 | Perhaps of greater importance , however , is that only half of liveborn infants with aneuploidies have Down 's syndrome . |
| 4 | The objection to this arrangement is that only half the cellos are available for the important entries in the second and ninth bars , which are thus considerably weakened . |
| 5 | The old process of commuting death sentences also remained in effect , and the result of these arrangements was that about half of all eighteenth-century felons were transported , so that about 30,000 were sent to North America in the next 60 years . |
| 6 | So it was that about half an hour later the telephone rang again at the vicarage . |