Example sentences of "[verb] in half the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sift in half the sugar , beat until smooth , then sift in remaining sugar . |
| 2 | Armed with the Steamatic , there 's no need to get your hands dirty and the job is done in half the time . |
| 3 | If you want it done in half the time , you 've got to have twice as many people . |
| 4 | Ian Salisbury , who played in half the Test matches , returned figures which will haunt him for some time . |
| 5 | The Department of the Environment has calculated that , by the year 2001 , two million extra houses will have to be built , 570,000 of those in the southeast , which has had to fit in half the population growth of England and Wales . |
| 6 | She emptied in half the tin and threw in a lighted match for good measure . |
| 7 | The consequence of this ‘ friendly and useful ’ advice was that the parts healed in half the time after the second operation as they did after the first . |
| 8 | No wonder the Bible has such a universal appeal , and its potential impact so alarms political and ideological leaders antagonistic to its message that its production and distribution is severely restricted in half the world . |
| 9 | Indeed it was this failure which led ultimately to her rejection by the Conservative party which , remembering Disraeli 's warning that ‘ the Conservative party is a national party , or it is nothing ’ , was alarmed by the hostility she aroused in half the nation . |
| 10 | A huge row in the Modena camp resulted in half the team — including drivers Phil Hill and Giancarlo Baghetti — walking out and forming ATS ( Automobili Turismo e Sport ) . |
| 11 | Sieve half the flour onto the eggs and fold in lightly with a metal spoon , then fold in half the butter , the remaining flour , then the remaining butter . |
| 12 | If I had n't made that bet , and had n't then gone both ways , nine times out of ten Jude would have shown a beaten hand and raked in half the pot — while the lads trashed me for letting him off lightly . |
| 13 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |