Example sentences of "half [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until the eighteenth century it was common to house two , three or more corps together in the barn , but a later development was the use of half the barn for threshed straw , filling only one side of the threshing floor with unthreshed corn , and the emergence of this practice may have accompanied the increased use of ricks for housing crops or faster threshing by machinery . |
| 2 | I found myself mentally putting aside half the afternoon for the task as I struggled over the incomprehensible jargon in my handbook . |
| 3 | The local authority had provided half the capital for the dual purpose church and the salary for a youth leader , so the church had obligations to maintain the club open despite continuous vandalism and verbal abuse directed at the elderly people , who became understandably reluctant to attend church . |
| 4 | The IBA hoped to raise half the capital for a new company from Midlands money , with ATV providing the rest . |
| 5 | Broken Scar supplies half the water for Teesdale , Darlington and Teesside homes , with the remainder coming from Lartington Treatment Works . |
| 6 | Scott could not succeed without outside finance , and soon this was supplied by David Astor , then editor of the London Observer , who put up half the money for a new venture , the Central African Mail , which began publishing in 1960 . |
| 7 | The idea started in our Care Committee — we raise half the money for the conversions , the Council supplies the other half . ’ |
| 8 | Most of the trusts make offers on the grounds that half the money for an appeal is raised from fund raising work in the local area . |
| 9 | The Mercosur countries , comprising a market of 192,000,000 people , had a combined gross national product of US$420,000 million , or more than half the total for the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean . |
| 10 | Network Southeast carries passengers three hundred and ninety million passengers a year , more than half the total for the whole of B R. So although off peak increases have been pegged at four percent , today 's announcement affects huge numbers of commuters . |
| 11 | They also reduce land loss , since it is estimated that channels with 50 per cent tree and shrub cover on both banks require only approximately half the width for a given volume of bankfull flood-water speeding through the channel , compared to treeless brooks which erode out into the adjacent fields . |
| 12 | It was small , and aware of the virtues of remaining small , lurking ambiguously between hotel and pub , and retaining its hold on the local bar custom while it lured in the fanatical fishermen from half the county for weekend indulgences and occasional contests . |
| 13 | Indeed , a number of studies have shown that the rate of relapse following CBT is only half the rate for clients taking anti-depressants . |
| 14 | In just two years Opren captured well over half the market for drugs to treat arthritis . |
| 15 | The list shows less than half the number for the first volume . |
| 16 | This is half the estimate for 1901 . |
| 17 | I often ask women to put on half a stone for the sake of their hair ’ |
| 18 | McLeish agreed with her promptly and she raised half a smile for him . |
| 19 | The Soviet-US joint venture Telekos is now providing a voice-mail service in Moscow : according to Alexander Gromov , Telekos deputy director , the system runs off a computer installed at the Moscow city telephone exchange ; the mail box has two minutes ' memory for input messages and half a minute for output messages ; the subscription is 1000 roubles hook-up fee plus 2,300 roubles per month . |
| 20 | The seventy five year old bachelor had finally got his girl at the second time of asking years He 'd waited half a century for this kiss with his new bride Rose , and he still could n't believe his luck . |
| 21 | This will be by helicopter and Hercules aircraft , taking less than half a day for the majority of the fighting troops . |
| 22 | Knowing the speed that floppy disks take to format , I allowed half a day for the job , but it was done in a couple of minutes — it 's the absolutely essential task of backing up files that takes the time . |
| 23 | They will take you half a mile for a packet of Marlboros — for a carton , they 'll fight each other for the privilege of taking you all the way ( eighteen miles ) out to Sheremtyevo airport . |
| 24 | Britons now chomp their way through more than 27,000 tonnes a year — about half a kilo for every man , woman and child . |
| 25 | And as an apprentice you , I was a year there for nothing , a ye , half a year for half a crown , half a year for five shillings , and at the end of five years I was earning fourteen shillings . |
| 26 | And as an apprentice you , I was a year there for nothing , a ye , half a year for half a crown , half a year for five shillings , and at the end of five years I was earning fourteen shillings . |
| 27 | Tell her there will be half a pie for her tea otherwise she do n't get none . |
| 28 | Course , I 'd been to Cecille 's , half a crown for an hour . |
| 29 | Y y you need n't lock your door up in those days you could leave your door open , and they 'd come and knock on your door and anybody in and I , I do n't think we ever had a key to our front door , but er no they were very friendly and there used to be an old midwife , Mrs her name was the , she used to charge half a crown for a birth . |
| 30 | As far as Fri Fri is concerned , running costs are equal to half a penny for every pound of fried product , ’ he says . |