Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] half [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There would n't have been much point in fusing only half the lighting system , would there ? ’ |
| 2 | That he 'd gone out to look for her on the road and across the clunch pit field , returning alone half an hour later . |
| 3 | From here he could see the two talking men quite clearly , and he picked up various objects on display , looking at them quite interestedly , and keeping only half an eye on the scene outside . |
| 4 | During the summer of 1987 , Coleman helped identify 25 Lebanese laboratories with a combined annual output of six or seven metric tons of refined heroin , representing about half the country 's gross national product . |
| 5 | hingin' therr half the time , emmty . |
| 6 | By the early seventies Japanese yards were launching over half the world 's ships . |
| 7 | Chemists were well on the way to forming over half the total of persons professionally engaged in science . |
| 8 | In other cases , a history-driven approach may be pursued , occupying perhaps half a term 's work , during which other prescribed National Curriculum subject requirements could also be covered . |
| 9 | ‘ You were going home half an hour ago , ’ said Constance . |
| 10 | Crooking an index finger , she summoned a waiter and proceeded to inform him that she had been waiting fully half an hour for her pancakes and that it would not do . |
| 11 | The Middle East is the most energy rich region of the world , possessing over half the world 's proven oil reserves and a quarter of the world 's gas reserves . |
| 12 | At first I would go for short walks , lasting perhaps half an hour , and then return to bed sufficiently impressed with my own daring to be able to relax into sleep . |
| 13 | And why was she getting only half an hour for dinner when he next door could have three quarters of an hour ? |
| 14 | ‘ By the end of the five years , however , passengers should be paying for all operating costs and providing about half the investment expenditure . ’ |
| 15 | A few minutes later the Deruta vase containing about half a kilo of assorted chocolates had been placed on the rear seat of the Volvo and he was sitting in the front watching Cinzia tear up the parking ticket which had been tucked under the windscreen wiper . |
| 16 | The result is a region that dwarfs all the others , containing about half the population of Scotland and bringing remote rural areas into association with the urban problems of Glasgow . |
| 17 | The Chinese work on the principle that to exercise the outside of the body — the arms , legs and muscles — is doing only half the job . |
| 18 | That 's giving away half the estate er half the house value on the first er death . |
| 19 | Division of assets would be on the basis of the size of each republic 's population , Slovakia having approximately half the population of Bohemia-Moravia ; it was reported that no financial compensation would be paid by either republic to the other . |
| 20 | But Jessamy did n't think she could cope with spending even half an hour with Julius . |
| 21 | All his promises about being as discreet as the Ardakkeans wanted , and now there are FedPol squads clumping around half the galaxy ! ’ |
| 22 | This is a new examination to be taken alongside A levels , involving about half the work of an A level , and aimed at broadening the curriculum . |
| 23 | Britons Harry Taylor , Mal Duff , Mike Smith and American Bill Pelkey were carrying just half a tent and minimal oxygen when they made their final push . |
| 24 | I found myself mentally putting aside half the afternoon for the task as I struggled over the incomprehensible jargon in my handbook . |
| 25 | Budget systems range between £250 to over £1,000 , storing around half a gigabyte on standard data cartridges . |
| 26 | I felt as if I 'd been sitting there half the night . |
| 27 | The radial shields are large extending over half the radius of the disk in length . |
| 28 | Another useful extension of telling and retelling stories is the technique of telling only half a story leaving the pupils themselves to determine what happened next . |
| 29 | The move by a sub-committee of the council 's highways committee follows public concern over plans by British Rail to replace manned barriers at Chitts Hill , Lexden , and Church Street , Kelvedon , with automatic barriers covering only half the carriageway . |
| 30 | Red Lion Square , covering about half an acre at the most , and mostly taken up by the Great North Road , represents just the shrunken remains of a market place that once covered about five times that area . |