Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences . |
| 2 | The 14 Felixstowe club members averaged 14 oz per man over the two legs to the average of four and half oz for the six Clacton members to take the cup . |
| 3 | Education accounts for more than half most county 's budgets . |
| 4 | And house burglaries and car thefts account for more than half all crimes reported . |
| 5 | So you will be taking in about twice as much dietary fibre in less than half as much food . |
| 6 | The Z88 will send the XON character when the receive buffer has been cleared to less than half full . |
| 7 | Priests in the Tambov area , the centre of peasant revolt in 1921 , reported in 1922 that church attendance had dropped by more than half as compared with pre-1914 . |
| 8 | Modern agriculture requires investment to survive , but investment has fallen by more than half since the Government took office . |
| 9 | A decision to cut a town 's tourist budget by more than half has angered shopkeepers and hoteliers . |