Example sentences of "more than about half [art] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 If the incipient spin has progressed for more than about half a turn because the pilot has kept the stick back , applying the full opposite rudder must be a good thing because it helps to stop the rotation and to even up the stalling of the wings .
2 No system has been described in which positional signals have to be transmitted over more than about half a millimetre , or about 30–50 cells .
3 They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation .
4 No hypnotic suggestion can be heard when the subject is at the Delta level — which , perhaps surprisingly , occupies no more than about half an hour each night .
5 Although the authorities proceeded cautiously ( issuing the call to the colours at different times in different places and eventually promulgating appeals in no more than about half the provinces of the European part of the empire ) , trouble still ensued .
  Next page