Example sentences of "half [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About half of the letters are published , usually without external peer review as we publish as letters only those that relate to matters raised in the journal within the past six weeks . |
| 2 | Almost half of the respondents expected their farms to go to a member of the next generation . |
| 3 | Half of the respondents would take a camera to an event where the Royal Family was present . |
| 4 | Thus over half of the respondents gave consideration to the availability of leisure facilities . |
| 5 | For over half of the respondents , their review was very much a whole-school effort and for another third it was fairly so . |
| 6 | Half of the respondents rejected this suggestion and around one-third were in favour . |
| 7 | Over half of the respondents were against this suggestion , with a little over one-third in favour . |
| 8 | Around half of the respondents would have clearly felt more comfortable with the question if the proposed time scale had been 5–7 days , and a great majority of those who took this approach including the vast majority of respondents who used the SPG form — suggested that 7 days would not be unreasonable . |
| 9 | Many of the largest TNCs have assets and annual sales far in excess of the GNP of about half of the countries of the world . |
| 10 | Holman stresses that lack of contact did not necessarily reflect parental wishes ( in fact nearly half of the parents wanted their children back ) , but parents felt they were being tacitly excluded by the agency . |
| 11 | About half of the infants in each group were not clinically dehydrated on presentation to hospital ( 102 ( 47% ) in group A and 99 ( 53% ) in group B ) , 102 ( 47% ) in group A and 75 ( 40% ) in group B were mildly dehydrated ( by up to 5% ) , 10 ( 5% ) in group A and 11 ( 6% ) in group B were moderately dehydrated ( 5–10% ) , and only one child in group A and two in group B were dehydrated by 10% or more . |
| 12 | In women about half of the discharges were seen among the patients over 64 years of age ( Fig 3B ) . |
| 13 | The partial group received pre-exposure in which the light was followed by the reinforcer on half of the trials . |
| 14 | How do we explain the instances when the density algorithm failed to return an interpretation as was the case in half of the trials ? |
| 15 | Just under half of the housewives ( 49% ) agree with Barbara Cartland and Lady Lothian ( organiser of the Women Of The Year lunches and patron of the National Council of Women ) that theirs should be a salaried job . |
| 16 | For about half of the innovations in the sample , patents delayed imitation by less than a few months . |
| 17 | About half of the papers are rejected after being read by two editors without being sent for external peer review . |
| 18 | Lee Winters , manageress of the Corbrige Fund , is considering engaging in index arbitrage , but has discovered that she will initially receive only half of the proceeds from short selling shares , that is , f = 0.5 . |
| 19 | Over half of the youngsters in residential care in Flanders ( 56 per cent ) are aged between 13 and 18 years . |
| 20 | Things were going well , and he saw that less than half of the youngsters were left . |
| 21 | Redbridge and Waltham Forest had accepted that there would be no major increase in revenue to fund the development of new services before closure and would plan on the basis that half of the sites of two hospitals could be sold to finance the new services . |
| 22 | WILL SINNET : the least pissed off half of the Shamen |
| 23 | WILL SINNET : the least pissed off half of the Shamen |
| 24 | When half of the goods were subsequently put up for sale by auction , they realised £309 . |
| 25 | The fact that half of the members of the Bundestag are selected from party lists , rather than being elected , only reinforces the power of the parties , weakens accountability and is open to the usual favouritist pressures . |
| 26 | The regulation treats parent companies as those having control over another company , such as where a company owns more than half of the share capital , or has the power to appoint more than half of the members of the board . |
| 27 | One spin-off is that many feminist psychologists still identify themselves as lesbians ; half of the members of the Association of Women in Psychology , for example , are lesbians ( Basow 1986 ) . |
| 28 | It is a stance which dismisses the needs of over half of the members of the community and sanctions major crimes such as rape , assault , actual or grievous bodily harm and murder . |
| 29 | Thirdly , there are amendments in the name of the Government of the er Noble Earl Lord which are Amendments ten , fifteen and twenty and these provide for greater flexibility in the size of police authorities , again between sixteen and twenty-four members to be determined by the Secretary of State and for the Bill 's existing proposition that er fifty per cent of the members should be er and only fifty per cent of the members , should be from local authorities that er er er er that er of the remainder some should be magistrates and some should be members appointed by the Secretary of State and finally er there is a series of amendments er by the Noble Lord , Lord , Amendment seventeen , eighteen and twenty-two and those provide again with flexibility of size for er police authorities that half of the members should be from local authorities and the other half should be magistrates . |
| 30 | The system involved workers electing half of the members of supervisory boards , with the shareholders electing the rest and appointing a ‘ neutral ’ chair . |