Example sentences of "half the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tack into a gap once you have expended about half the time to the start from the buoy , then even if you sail back at the same speed , you can not be early . |
| 2 | Well I have been I 've been in bed half the time with |
| 3 | Both halves have their merits , but together their appeal will be limited to those teachers of computer science , who if lecturing on the impact of motor traffic on society , would spend half the time on the way sparking plugs work . |
| 4 | I mean , you slide around half the time on your bottom ( just like Joanne Conway ! ) . |
| 5 | No one here likes you , the way you sit off by yourself at meals half the time as if you 're waiting for someone who 's good enough for you . |
| 6 | My lesson lasted about half the time of Tony 's , terminating as he was explaining the purpose of the deadman 's handle to me when a gust filled his chute and hauled him off in fine style . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And as packing can take half the time of the total removal and even more in certain circumstances , most people opt for that . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the Calder Valley district , the Yorkshire Water Authority 's data showed the EC limits were met less than half the time in 1988 . |
| 11 | REM sleep can be identified with active sleep in the neonate , who spends about half the time in this state . |
| 12 | It 's not something I particularly thought an awful lot of until I came on crime prevention , because before that I was in police uniform with marked cars with the radio , although half the time in Harlow , the radios do n't work cos we 're getting . |