Example sentences of "in half the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gairdner , who examined a large number of normal children during their first five years of life , observed that at birth only 4% of children had fully retractile prepuces , while in half the prepuce was partially retractile . |
| 2 | And a life interest in half the residue . |
| 3 | She gets a bit more a hundred and twenty five thousand pounds now and an absolute interest in half the residue . |
| 4 | First layer in half the monkfish , then the parsley , followed by the scampi , the broccoli , the rest of the monkfish and finally the tomato . |
| 5 | If I had n't made that bet , and had n't then gone both ways , nine times out of ten Jude would have shown a beaten hand and raked in half the pot — while the lads trashed me for letting him off lightly . |
| 6 | d ) If you cut a flatworm in half the head will grow a new tail ; more surprisingly , the tail will grow a new head . |
| 7 | Ian Salisbury , who played in half the Test matches , returned figures which will haunt him for some time . |
| 8 | Sieve half the flour onto the eggs and fold in lightly with a metal spoon , then fold in half the butter , the remaining flour , then the remaining butter . |
| 9 | When , therefore , on 9 December 1949 , an amendment to the Military Aid Program bill proposed by the combined Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and Armed Services sought to earmark the sum of $75 m. for what was eventually described as the ‘ general area of China ’ , in voting to cut the appropriation for the Military Assistance Program in half the House of Representatives may , as Acheson said , have been in one of its berserk moods ; but in order to save the Program , and its underpinning of the fledgling North Atlantic Alliance , Acheson was prepared to accept the amendment and , as he presents it , it seems to have been one of the easiest passages in that summer of difficult decisions . |
| 10 | She emptied in half the tin and threw in a lighted match for good measure . |
| 11 | The Department of the Environment has calculated that , by the year 2001 , two million extra houses will have to be built , 570,000 of those in the southeast , which has had to fit in half the population growth of England and Wales . |
| 12 | No wonder the Bible has such a universal appeal , and its potential impact so alarms political and ideological leaders antagonistic to its message that its production and distribution is severely restricted in half the world . |
| 13 | A huge row in the Modena camp resulted in half the team — including drivers Phil Hill and Giancarlo Baghetti — walking out and forming ATS ( Automobili Turismo e Sport ) . |
| 14 | Indeed it was this failure which led ultimately to her rejection by the Conservative party which , remembering Disraeli 's warning that ‘ the Conservative party is a national party , or it is nothing ’ , was alarmed by the hostility she aroused in half the nation . |
| 15 | Sift in half the sugar , beat until smooth , then sift in remaining sugar . |
| 16 | That 'll leave it wide open for the supermarket boys to market a ‘ free-range acorn-fed pork ’ — an intensively bred pig , fattened up in woods in half the time and costing well under an eighth of the price . ’ |
| 17 | Though originally designed for the other end of the alimentary canal , it was ideal for my purposes ; it was virtually unbreakable and gave accurate readings in half the time of an ordinary clinical thermometer . |
| 18 | The consequence of this ‘ friendly and useful ’ advice was that the parts healed in half the time after the second operation as they did after the first . |
| 19 | You can no longer say , ‘ OK , but there will be a smart worker who will learn how to do that in half the time it takes now ’ . |
| 20 | She is the one who knows how to puncture the wordiness of his speeches , getting him to edit his arguments so he can ram the message home in half the time . |
| 21 | Armed with the Steamatic , there 's no need to get your hands dirty and the job is done in half the time . |
| 22 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |
| 23 | I told them the arguments put forward by Visual Effects , only to be told in return manufacturing a conical base would have been much easier as it could all have been done from one two-part mould in half the time . ’ |
| 24 | If you want it done in half the time , you 've got to have twice as many people . |
| 25 | And the foreman comes up and says , Oh want this job in half the time . |
| 26 | We surfed that channel in half the time it normally takes and then towards the end of our Connemara trip , even after a couple of longer crossings where she admitted she was cursing the disappearing stern of my glassfibres boat , she wanted to buy the Seayak . |
| 27 | Well that 's a , that 's a thing of that particular day , at that time th th and life erm and then they get what they call , they bought a steam hopper , so the steam hopper would say , could get to sea quicker in half the time the dumb hoppers could and so we were rotating all the time , there used to be one dumb hopper go to sea , one steam hopper and we 'd be loading the other dumb hopper and then th course the steam hopper would be back in half the time we 'd that and that 's how we rotate , day to day . |
| 28 | Well that 's a , that 's a thing of that particular day , at that time th th and life erm and then they get what they call , they bought a steam hopper , so the steam hopper would say , could get to sea quicker in half the time the dumb hoppers could and so we were rotating all the time , there used to be one dumb hopper go to sea , one steam hopper and we 'd be loading the other dumb hopper and then th course the steam hopper would be back in half the time we 'd that and that 's how we rotate , day to day . |
| 29 | High-recovery cylinders heat up in half the time so can be smaller in size |
| 30 | Normally it takes three or four years to complete the apprenticeship , but Reay helped by his ten year 's experience of weaving and considerable determination , achieved it in half the time . |