Example sentences of "half of [Wh det] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unsurprisingly , none of them had heard of Giles Williams , which was clearly a false name , and Kelly 's description of his telephone manner — a slurred , gin-sodden voice with a wheedling insincere tone to it — covered half of what used to be known as Fleet Street . |
| 2 | I would be apportioned my six — half of which would be business — Joyce would set about her one hundred and sixty-six . |
| 3 | Later plans involved an additional expenditure of about £150 million to take the railway into Bank , about half of which would be met by the Canary Wharf developers ( see below ) . |
| 4 | She already has 70 people will to pay just £2 per month for ten months , half of which will go to Breakthrough , and the rest to provide prizes , and she needs just 30 more to make the One Hundred Club work . |
| 5 | But one very rough guess by Paul Portney of Resources for the Future suggests a cumulative cost , in 1990 dollars , of perhaps $136 billion , roughly half of which will fall on the private sector and disproportionately on manufacturing . |
| 6 | The lottery is expected to raise around £1 billion per year , about half of which will be used to support the arts ( in particular the national heritage ) , with the remainder allocated to protection of the environment , sports and charities . |
| 7 | This will be supplemented by an intensive study of 40 households , half of which will include at least one unemployed adult worker , in an attempt to ascertain the cultural significance of the broad social and economic developments that will be uncovered in the previous sections of the research . |
| 8 | Each will cover between 40 and 80 square miles , about half of which will be cloaked in trees . |
| 9 | Start with a length of about seven metres of wire , precisely half of which should be spooled onto a shuttle thin enough to pass through the centre of the toroid . |