Example sentences of "in the [adj] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remainder of the upper-storey accommodation , which was created at a slightly higher level in the eastern half of the main east-west wing , is reached from the ground floor via a spiral stair . |
| 2 | Most now live by selling home-made jeans in front of S- Bahn ( suburban railway ) stations in the eastern half of Berlin . |
| 3 | ‘ Hellenism ’ meant not only speaking Greek as the main language of communication in the eastern half of the Mediterranean , but also games , gymnasia , theatres , and the diffusion of polytheistic cult . |
| 4 | The company plans to install fibre transmission lines along 6600 km of railways in the eastern half of the United States . |
| 5 | Whilst the cathedral and precincts occupied the southwestern ‘ quadrant ’ , the trades and craftsmen concentrated in the eastern half of the town . |
| 6 | We have already seen some of the fortunes of the Browne/Montague family ; as the aristocracy waned later in the sixteenth century , it was the gentry who grew in strength , particularly in the eastern half of the county . |
| 7 | Some may have left the area but many found continued support among dissident laymen and a strong , if scattered , Dissenting tradition grow in Sussex , particularly in the eastern half . |
| 8 | In two months Sussex saw 103 separate incidents , two-thirds of them in the eastern half where the restrictive paternalism of the great landowners was less pervasive than in the west . |
| 9 | In the nineteenth century about 70 per cent of all Siberia 's ‘ Russians ’ lived in the three most westerly provinces ( Tobolsk , Tomsk and Yeniseisk ) , while only 30 per cent lived in the eastern half of Siberia . |
| 10 | Leases for lives were sometimes used in the eastern half of the country , but here the normal method of tenure was the lease for a restricted period , from one to twenty-one years . |
| 11 | The conflagration began in the lower half of the square at the point where the houses are set back a little from the pavement . |
| 12 | The bass is handled by a pair of high grade bass cone units of not quite conventional design which are housed in the lower half of the enclosure . |
| 13 | Nearly all fourth year pupils in mathematics sets in the lower half of each school 's attainment range took the reference test . |
| 14 | However , from the transitions shown graphically in figure 3 ( right hand side ) and the energies given in the lower half of table 1 , we can see that these transitions are not notably more difficult than those of the junctions already discussed . |
| 15 | In the lower half of El Greco 's ‘ Burial of the Count of Orgaz ’ in Toledo there is a line-up of angular , ruffed mourners . |
| 16 | Another possibility is that the part of the reference card in the lower half of the view field ( the less sensitive part ) is not fully seen . |
| 17 | If a higher proportion of pensioners are now in the top half of the distribution , who has taken their place in the lower half , and why ? |
| 18 | The rest of their opponents are at present in the lower half of the table . |
| 19 | ‘ With Plymouth , I was mainly involved in the lower half of the Second Division . |
| 20 | Relegation-threatened Inverleith and Stepps clash , with the odds appearing to favour Inverleith , but , as Kelburne found out to their cost last week , there are no pushovers in the lower half of the table . |
| 21 | The tomatoes Red Alert and Tornado should give reasonable crops outdoors in a dull summer — at least in the southern half of the country . |
| 22 | In the southern half of Gloucestershire , a river known as the Little Avon gradually wends its way across the county towards the Severn . |
| 23 | Indeed , our research at Morgan Grenfell indicates that some 1.5m households may be caught in that trap , with the vast majority concentrated in the southern half of the country . |
| 24 | Towns and cities in the southern half of Britain increased in population , while many of the industrial towns outside that region lost people . |
| 25 | Population growth in the 1980s was dominated by shire counties in the southern half of England , the ‘ rural South ’ , particularly those forming an arc in and around the western and northern parts of the South East region . |
| 26 | And yet , any medium-sized town in the southern half of England has its Burleigh school : a private day school to which , for a not too exorbitant fee , parents can send their children and boast that they are privately educated . |
| 27 | Mrs. Thatcher carried her party to victory in 1979 largely on the votes of the electorate in the southern half of England , below a line drawn from the River Severn to the Wash ( see Map 5.1 ) . |
| 28 | The swing to the Conservatives in the election was highest in the southern half of the country ( and in Wales ) , lowest in the northern parts of the country and in Scotland . |
| 29 | In the southern half of the country , the Labour party won only three seats outside of Greater London and was largely displaced as the main challenger to the Conservatives by the Liberal/SDP Alliance ( see Table 5.7 ) . |
| 30 | Five is to the north of Killinghall and you 'll see from the table attached , table two that er prior to the opening of the phase one of the bypasses , it was opened in two phases between the A sixty one and the six six one in the southern half was opened first . |