Example sentences of "half [prep] all [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nearly half of all the pasta eaten in Britain is the canned variety , which often owes little to its Italian ancestry . |
| 2 | Roughly half of all the CO 2 produced dissolves in the oceans , where some is photosynthesized by plants , is taken up by trees or is taken up within limestone ( calcium carbonate ) . |
| 3 | Half of all the meat eaten in the world is pig . |
| 4 | Britain is a major market for US plywood — about a million cubic metres of the stuff comes across the Atlantic every year , nearly half of all the plywood we import . |
| 5 | Half of all the way round so how many would that be ? |
| 6 | Like the bricks in such a house , the protein molecules of the body are replaced ( ‘ turned over ’ ) so that , on average , half of all the protein molecules are changed every two weeks . |
| 7 | They will be able to keep half of all the treasure they find ( unrealistically generous , certainly ) but it will all have to be declared . |
| 8 | Mr Geoffrey Hillcoat , Durham county council group traffic manager for road safety , told Darlington Cycling Forum on Monday that serious accidents in the town accounted for almost half of all the cycle injuries in the county last year . |
| 9 | In a report on biodiversity , entitled Bringing Rio Home : Biodiversity in our Food and Farming , SAFE shows that in 1992 three varieties accounted for more than half of all the seed sown of winter wheat , spring wheat , barley , oats , rye , sugar beet and rapeseed ; the highest proportions were for spring wheat ( 86 per cent ) and oats ( 77 per cent ) . |