Example sentences of "half [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather more than half the wealth of Coventry belonged to men whose assessments reached three figures in 1522 ; in Exeter just under half . |
| 2 | Nobody in Wickwar , ‘ a hamlet ’ , admitted to more than £4 , while the lord of the manor owned more than half the wealth of Alderley , where a man of £50 was the only one who looks a potential clothier . |
| 3 | These were given to only half the proportion of patients treated with them in France , Germany , Italy and Spain . |
| 4 | Only a quarter are employed , half the proportion among married mothers . |
| 5 | ( GUIL walks half the distance towards the PLAYER , stops with his foot over the coin . ) |
| 6 | After walking for some time , having covered about half the distance between the two stations , Willie became aware of a steady , yet rather unnerving sound just ahead as if someone was hammering the rails . |
| 7 | It is reasonable to assume that the territory governed from Knossos , for instance , extended eastwards for roughly half the distance between Knossos and Mallia and southwards for roughly half the distance between Knossos and Phaistos . |
| 8 | It is reasonable to assume that the territory governed from Knossos , for instance , extended eastwards for roughly half the distance between Knossos and Mallia and southwards for roughly half the distance between Knossos and Phaistos . |
| 9 | Two men removed courses of bricks for half the distance round the base , at the same time replacing the bricks with timber blocks . |
| 10 | Half the stuff on the album is about growing up in Birmingham in the '70s but half of it is about '90s subjects like ‘ Livin' On The Streets ’ and ‘ Fish And Chips ’ , which is about going to clubs . |
| 11 | " Come on till we see did it come — you could n't trust Hanlon 's man — late today again — and left half the stuff after him I would n't wonder … " |
| 12 | You 'll take half the skin off my forehead ! ’ |
| 13 | You will find that less than half the vocabulary in the OED , with its historical and British dialect emphases , will be found in the Webster , and vice versa . |
| 14 | Hoare found buyers for nearly half the stake on Tuesday — but institutions agreed to take shares only on condition that all could be placed . |
| 15 | Holligan , Liverpool 's British and Commonwealth light-welter champion , has won all his 18 contests , but has only half the experience of Rojas , who has lost 10 of his 39 bouts . |
| 16 | Er here erm you can form your own views about whether Mill 's right or wrong , I mean that the situation of a secret ballot was brought in to erm overcome as one where the local industrist industrialist who employed half the member of the town was also standing for parliament . |
| 17 | For a century and a half the subject of sexuality was taboo in much of Western society and it was only after the Second World War that this taboo decayed sufficiently for a body of formal knowledge concerning sexuality to be scientifically built up . |
| 18 | Basically , the book could be condensed into half the space without losing anything of value . |
| 19 | Deloitte has an impressive list of audit clients although its management consultancy practice is only half the size of Coopers . |
| 20 | Today the dominant question is whether a country that can draw on the manpower and technology of two advanced industrial countries could become too powerful to be accommodated inside the European Community where the leading nations , Britain , France and Italy , would have populations only half the size of a new Germany . |
| 21 | If legal recognition is granted , the reserve and its neighbouring area will together represent a stretch of rainforest half the size of Wales , home to 10,000 families of seringueiros and Indians , set aside for preservation . |
| 22 | An English-speaking population half the size of Cuba 's is scattered over 2,000 miles , from the Bahamas in the Atlantic to Guyana on the American mainland — more still , if you go by way of Belize — complete with more than a dozen governors-general , parliaments , prime ministers , judiciaries and bureaucracies . |
| 23 | Half the size of his palm , the worm-cake was made of bitter chocolate whose only hint of sweetness was in the sparse sprinkling of sugar on its surface . |
| 24 | Because they were only half the size of a mature Thoroughbred , they were not tall enough to see over their stable doors or internal walls so that when someone opened the stable doors , the weanlings would attempt to climb the walls in sheer terror ! |
| 25 | The main targets are damson-hop aphids , related to the common greenfly and about half the size of a grain of rice , which have developed immunity to pesticides . |
| 26 | It was half the size of the one he had just left , he noticed , unusually observant . |
| 27 | The area of Kosovo ( which covers what was previously known as Kosovo and Metohija ) is an approximate square with a side of about 70 miles , equivalent to half the size of Wales . |
| 28 | Bait will be a piece of crust about half the size of a matchbox , torn from a new loaf . |
| 29 | She would appear at the gates of the Waaf Site about 10.45pm , armed with a torch half the size of the Flamborough lighthouse , when upwards of a dozen couples would be propping up the fence saying goodnight . |
| 30 | At 9.30 in the evening there 's a small queue of people at The Palace club at Hollywood and Vine , a dump about half the size of London 's Town & Country with a quarter of the atmosphere . |