Example sentences of "[conj] the half " in BNC.
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| 1 | One is about the size of or the half size of a football . |
| 2 | All or most of the total , or the half of less than half the total amount you spent ? |
| 3 | We agree with MacGowan and Reeves that the half life may be inaccurate if it is calculated from only two values ; but perhaps that is why they have never seen a patient with normal renal function in whom the half life is as long as 7.6 hours , since in clinical practice two measurements are all one has to go on . |
| 4 | Hoffmann J. declared that in each case the beneficial interest in the property was owned by the bankrupt and his wife in equal shares and he made orders for possession and sale but , after considering the circumstances of the two wives and their children and , in particular , that the half shares to which they would be entitled would be insufficient for them to acquire other accommodation in the area and the educational problems of the children , imposed a provision for postponement until the youngest child in each case attained the age of sixteen . |
| 5 | What would you like to multiply twelve and a half by so that the half disappears ? |
| 6 | Our Skipper went through a phase of thinking that the half halt meant go faster . |
| 7 | It had burned a whole year long , and the half of another , the image of Linnet gliding down the aisle behind Gemma like a lovely abandoned swan so engraved on Ben Braithwaite 's memory that he would have no peace , no rest — he 'd vowed — until he had possessed her . |
| 8 | A whole year long of hungering and thirsting , and the half of another . |
| 9 | The 11 are ambitious , able and united and , judging by history , are likely to be successful , and the half is a self-disabled United Kingdom . |
| 10 | Significant effects of preincubation with 100 nmol/l TPA were also evident at this temperature , and the half maximally effective concentration of TPA was estimated to be 4.1 nmol/l . |
| 11 | Whereas the short version makes a flat statement : where the strong stresses of sense are counterpointed with the underlying metrically rhythmical dactyls , and the half rhyme on " stark " and " harde " brings the whole description to a brutal head . |
| 12 | But the truth is that HMI is to be privatised by the back door because the half of HMI who will not be employed by it will have to go and set up as private consultants . |
| 13 | Managing director Kevin Eakin said that while the half percentage point cut would not have a dramatic effect , it was part of a series of cuts all in the right direction . |
| 14 | Stoke started well and Stein sliced a shot wide following good work by Beeston and Heath , but as the half progressed Peterborough began to dominate . |
| 15 | This signalled the arrival of the half of the school that had NOT been early for assembly , who tried to enter the sports hall at the same time as the half that had just been thrown out tried to exit . |
| 16 | As the half went on , Leeds really had the better of things , in terms of possesion , going forward , corners , and shots on goal . |
| 17 | As the half progressed Leeds became more dominant . |
| 18 | As the half progressed Banbridge came more into the game and in the 29th minute . |