Example sentences of "which is half the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't think he 's a very good people manager , but he admits to that , which is half the battle . ’
2 Although dealing with a much smaller area confined to Insula XIV , an Insula which is half the size of most of the others , nevertheless , as many as 1293 well stratified vessels of coarse ware are published .
3 The geometric no-arbitrage condition contains an extra term ( y ) which is half the difference between the average of the variances of the instantaneous returns on the shares in the index ( ) and the variance of the instantaneous return on the index ( ) , that is , y = ( ) /2 .
4 Mike Barr , from the Borrowby Group , said the figure which is half the height of the proposed pylons would be visible miles away .
5 One further variation is to operate the motor with alternate one and two-phase-on excitation , i.e. A , AB , B BC , C , CA , A , --- Each excitation change produces an incremental movement which is half the length of a normal step and therefore this excitation is known as the " half-stepping " mode of operation .
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