Example sentences of "[v-ing] about half [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ By the end of the five years , however , passengers should be paying for all operating costs and providing about half the investment expenditure . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |