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How to use half in a sentence

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The team fell behind in the first half but rallied in the second half to win the game.
The university receives more than half its aggregate income from government sources.
The coach made three substitutions in the second half of the game.
After Queen Mary I died, her half sister Elizabeth ruled the kingdom.
The home side were showing adventure, running from deep in their own half and booting a kickable penalty to touch.
A thousand quid for that motor? Do me a lemon, I could get it for half that.
Little half moons clustered underneath her cheekbones, like faint hoofmarks.
The average smoker used only four hoons, leaving him 36 hoons, nearly half an ounce, to sell on the black market.
A dozen boys, roughly half the class, raised their hands and began discussing their hooptees.
By the end of the decade, half of all immigration to the United States was from Ireland.
The population of Ireland collapsed dramatically during the second half of the 19th century.
The introduction of the potato in the second half of the 16th century heavily influenced cuisine thereafter.
Thirty further cremations were placed in the enclosure's ditch and at other points within the monument, mostly in the eastern half.
In straightening the stone he moved it about half a metre from its original position.
A half dozen other negroes, some limping and all scared, were humping it across a meadow.
Cato the Elder once advised cutting his rations in half to conserve wine for the workforce.
Although nearly half the hypernatremic patients had a febrile illness, other associated conditions assume more prominence than in infants.
A smaller lighthouse at Dover, England also exists as a ruin about half the height of the original.
The Parthian capital Ctesiphon was sacked by the legions and the northern half of Mesopotamia was annexed to the Empire.
Licinius departed and eventually defeated Maximin, gaining control over the entire eastern half of the Roman Empire.
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Attila claimed Honoria as his wife and half of the Western Empire's territory as his dowry.
This activity was limited to the southern half of Ireland, and there is no evidence for them in Ulster or Connacht.
The Danes had beached half their ships and gone inland, either to rest their rowers or to forage for food.
Alfred's relations with the Celtic princes in the western half of Britain are clearer.
The first half is based mainly on the Soliloquies of St Augustine of Hippo, the remainder is drawn from various sources.
I half slept and half woke and enjoyed for several hours that dreamy, in-betweeny state of living that hovers between consciousness and sleep.
In the 1st quarter of 2009, the GNP of Norway surpassed Sweden's for the first time in history, although its population is half the size.
In 1294, Edward made a demand of a grant of one half of all clerical revenues.
Nicholas picked up Mr Lenville's ash stick which had flown out of his hand, and breaking it in half, threw him the pieces.
A biotechnology cancer drug cuts in half the risk that one type of breast cancer will recur after surgery.
The young King inherited a difficult situation, with over half of England occupied by the rebels.
Soon, similar institutions were established throughout the Egyptian desert as well as the rest of the eastern half of the Roman Empire.
For most of 2006 and the first half of 2007, polls showed leads over Labour for the Conservatives.
How many Frenchmen actually sailed is unknown, but the historian Chris Skidmore estimates over half of Henry's armed fleet.
After that there were marryings and intermarryings, the way there are, and Kredindale gets related to half the earls of the North.
Picking the ball up in his own half, Januzaj threaded a 40-yard pass into the path of Rooney to slice Southampton open in the blink of an eye.
Elizabeth continued to appeal to Feodor in half appealing, half reproachful letters.
In fact, her skin had been scarred by smallpox in 1562, leaving her half bald and dependent on wigs and cosmetics.
They carry a branch half a day, meaning to do great things with it, and then they snap it in two.
In matters of religion, Elizabeth was more moderate than her half sister Mary.
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In its first century and half, the EIC used a few hundred soldiers as guards.
In 1830, a revolution in the southern half of the country led to the de facto independence of the new state of Belgium.
The century and half of Dutch rule in Ceylon and southern India left few to no traces of the Dutch language.
There were about a hundred thousand European settlers in the country, at that time, about half of them French.
Ferdinand Magellan had called here half a century earlier, where he put to death some mutineers.
Since the latter half of the 20th century, historians have tended to revise James's reputation and treat him as a serious and thoughtful monarch.
The Authorized Version maintained its effective dominance throughout the first half of the 20th century.
In about half of these instances, the Authorized Version translators appear to follow the earlier 1550 Greek Textus Receptus of Stephanus.
For the other half, Scrivener was usually able to find corresponding Greek readings in the editions of Erasmus, or in the Complutensian Polyglot.
By the 1660s, London was by far the largest city in Britain, estimated at half a million inhabitants.
Within half an hour, the lead roof was melting, and the books and papers in the crypt caught with a roar.
That this company is half Japanese-owned is obvious. Japanese words spelled out in English are used and posted throughout the plant.
From the second half of the 17th century onwards, a time of political and religious turmoil existed in the kingdoms.
Millan had already been repeating his loud opinion of all Hindus, before the tailor he had so efficiently jewed down was half out of the room.
With a population of 16 million, Britain was barely half the size of France, which had a population of 30 million.
He would hide in corners and other dark places, and jump out, scaring one half to death.
Britain maintained a standing army of 220,000 at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, of whom less than half were available for campaigning.
During this entire campaign he never managed to field more than 70,000 men against more than half a million coalition soldiers.
Wiping out half of Prussian territories from the map, Napoleon created a new kingdom of 1,100 square miles called Westphalia.
Nelson spent the first half of the year conducting operations to frustrate French advances and bolster Britain's Italian allies.
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Most of the right arm was amputated and within half an hour Nelson had returned to issuing orders to his captains.
Nelson arrived off Toulon in July 1803 and spent the next year and a half enforcing the blockade.
On the way to Lancaster, which was about an hour and a half from Philly, John felt the karma.
Within the United Kingdom, nearly half of all adults partake in one or more sporting activity each week.
By contrast in 21st century Britain, nearly half of all children are born outside marriage, and nine in ten newlyweds have been cohabitating.
Still, in February 1941, there remained only seven squadrons with 87 pilots, under half the required strength.
Other sources point to half of the port's 144 berths rendered unusable, while cargo unloading capability was reduced by 75 percent.
With the exception of scramjets, jet engines, deprived of their inlet systems can only accept air at around half the speed of sound.
These three principles have guided the development of the NHS over more than half a century and remain.
Recently, the 'by halves' system, whereby half of the council is elected every two years, has been allowed.
Following the 2011 election, Welsh Labour held exactly half of the seats in the Assembly, falling just short of an overall majority.
Louis VIII of France briefly ruled about half of England from 1216 to 1217 at the conclusion of the First Barons' War against King John.
Labour took a lead in the polls in the second half of 2010, driven in part by a collapse in Liberal Democrat support.
In the year after the 2010 general election, half the Tories' funding came from the financial sector.
By the end of 1930 unemployment had doubled to over two and a half million.
More loans required deep spending cuts and the Labour cabinet was split nearly in half.
Of UK members, for instance, approaching half of the Labour MEPs are female.
It is some 600,000 acres in area, more than half of which is vital flatwoods vegetation, which supports many rare plant and animal species.
By the end of 1721, New Orleans counted 1256 inhabitants, of which about half were slaves.
Ken Clarke, Nick Clegg and Jacqui Smith wrote a joint letter claiming the prison population should be cut by half.
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Calderdale has the lowest truancy rate for unitary authorities, almost half that of Leeds, followed by North Lincolnshire.
The region also corresponds to the later Five Boroughs of the Danelaw, and the eastern half of the Anglian Kingdom of Mercia.
Silverstone Circuit hosts the British Grand Prix, although the southern half of the track is outside the region.
It covers the western half of the area traditionally known as the Midlands.
The Lord and the Lady Actually, when I say that Wicca is a Goddess tradition, I'm really only telling half of the story.
But they were both killed in the same engagement against Tippoo Sahib, her father owing ten lakhs of rupees and her husband nearly half that sum.
The price was high, as the population of France at the end of the Wars was likely half what it had been at the start of the conflict.
Elections of all councillors and half of the aldermen took place every three years thereafter.
The first fire engine is in attendance in roughly five minutes on average, the second when required in a little over five and a half minutes.
The UK Home Office stated that approximately 19,000 attempts to cross the Channel during the first half of 2015 had been detected and prevented.
This was about half the level of unemployment that had affected the city during the Great Depression 50 years previously.
Since 1981 the city has hosted the Great North Run, a half marathon which attracts over 57,000 runners each year.
Carlo Ancelotti's out-of-sorts team struggled to hit the target in the first half as Bolton threatened with Matthew Taylor lashing just wide.
In the second half of that century, the intellectual triumph of Latindom and Christendom is complete.
The bore is accompanied by a rapid rise in water level which continues for about one and a half hours after the bore has passed.
By the second half of the 20th century, the pendulum had swung back towards road transport.
In the second half of the 20th century these traditional clothes fell out of fashion.
It survived for over one and a half thousand years but was then replaced by a thinner Georgian wall.
Between 1250 and 1262, the Rape of Chichester was created from the western half of Arundel rape, with the castle as its administrative centre.
The leaky bucket only dripped one drop at a time, but by the time I got back to the house it was half empty.
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These mergers heralded half a century in which GKN became a major manufacturer of screws, nuts, bolts and other fasteners.
Portsmouth was affected by the British Empire's decline in the latter half of the 20th century.
Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy, looking for the philosopher's stone.
The other half of Babbage's brain is on display in the Science Museum, London.
Instead, Turing played a game in which he simulated the computer, taking about half an hour per move.
More conventional track forms were later used, although baulk road could still be seen in sidings in the first half of the twentieth century.
He worked with Joseph Locke on the Grand Junction Railway with half of the line allocated to each man.
Variolation was also practiced throughout the latter half of the 17th century by physicians in Turkey, Persia, and Africa.
In terms of power, a hovercraft would only need between one quarter to one half of the power required by a helicopter.
The teaching of evolution in American secondary school biology classes was uncommon in most of the first half of the 20th century.
Publishers typically sell hardcover books to retailers at half the list price, while retailers set consumer prices.
Since then, elections have been held every two years for an alternating half of the councils.
Due to bilingualism half of the newspapers are published in English and the other half in Maltese.
Among the Swedish runestones mentioning expeditions overseas, almost half tell of raids and travels to western Europe.
More than a half century after these events, Carthage was humiliated and Rome was no more concerned about the African menace.
He was a popular leader in the first half of his reign, but became a crude and insane tyrant in his years controlling government.
The flourishing of sculpture in Mercia, occurred slightly later than in Northumbria and is dated to the second half of the 8th century.
Cork, Kerry, Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Tipperary and Limerick alone provided nearly half of Ireland's emigrants.
Middlesbrough during the latter half of the 19th century had the second highest percentage of Irish born migrants in England after Liverpool.
The country however continues to attract an estimated half a million foreign tourists.
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In 1970, a massive cyclone devastated the coast of East Pakistan killing up to half a million people.
The Delhi Durbar of 1911 saw King George V and Queen Mary bedecked in sapphires and rubies lording it over half a million Indian subjects.
She had been standing behind the curtain of coloured glass beads for at least half an hour now, waiting patiently with a silver lota of water.
Frisian is spoken among half a million people who live on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark.
Before the grave was half filled a truck entered the cemetery gates towing a lowboy with a tractor chained to the bed.
In 2014, half of the men's GB team fenced for Truro Fencing Club, and 3 Truro fencers appeared at the 2012 Olympics.
The English influence was already present in the 19th century, but it did not become dominant until the second half of the 20th century.
A dowry of 200,000 crowns had been agreed, and half was paid shortly after the marriage.
If in cases of difficulty you have recourse to this means, luxate downwards as far as half the dorsopalmar diameter, and then vice versa.
A religious census in 1851 revealed Nonconformist comprised about half that of the people who attended church services on Sundays.
Mahayana, also practiced in broader East Asia, is followed by over half of world Buddhists.
The abbreviated lesson only took fifteen minutes as opposed to an hour and a half.
This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
His record is all the less impressive once you discover that he made half of it up.
Amber, the half, generally waltzed round our forwards, and when he secured he passed the ball on to Aspinall.
Maccabi's Yoan Ziv also saw red in the second half for kicking a boot at the assistant referee.
The team has won three-quarters of its games at home, but less than half of away games.
Of the men Kimmel interviewed about bangbus porn, about half knew about the sites and had been to them.
When mixed with half its weight of good wheat flour, however, barleymeal can be converted into good enough loaves.
Their counterparts in Canada, Europe and Japan made less than half as much, sometimes while beating the pants off them in the marketplace.
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Within a half an hour, the phones throughout the governor's mansion pealed, as if public television begathon night.
I'm sorry, I'm running behind time, I should be home in half an hour or so.
Male berdache have been documented in nearly 150 North American societies, while female berdache appear in half as many groups.
We raced madly for about half a mile, behaving in as wild a manner as the poor bestung animals.
Flory was standing against the veranda rail, half facing the girl, but keeping his birthmarked cheek hidden.
West Brom enjoyed more possession as the half progressed and were handed a penalty of their own in the 21st minute in bizarre circumstances.
It took Sue Dockar a good half hour to swim out to her target bombora, a moderate swim in spearfishing terms.
Even the big houses are shifting, here today and gone tomorrow, cut in half, jacked up on a truck and carted off to the country.
Thinking that it might be Lord Carbury, and that, if so, he would probably not wait until half past nine to break his fast, she ran gaily off.
A cloak, half a yard shorter than the Breeches, not through lin'd, but fac'd as far as 'twas turned back, with a pair of frugal butter-hams.
Whereof John de Ditton holds a moiety of the village for half a carve of land.
A full breath would take enough time for a deep intake of air, while a half breath would be more like a short catch breath.
I channel surfed for half an hour before deciding nothing worth watching was on television.
A little further on, to the right, was a large garage, where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.
Many people who consider themselves to be liberally educated have undertaken study in half a dozen fields from a Chinese menu of subjects.
The same stuff you use for chocolate milk can be used to chocolatize a beer. Use a half cup in the boil.
Once the car is in a chop shop, a skilled cutter can reduce it to salable parts in half an hour to 45 minutes.
The Thursday before last Halloween, the building next door was gutted. It took four and a half hours to put out.
He had made arrangements with the cockerel to call him three-quarters of an hour earlier in the mornings instead of half an hour.
But the comb or half quarter is very general in the Eastern counties, particularly in Norfolk.
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Ozzie Train, secretary. Ozzie needs little introduction, other than that he is the remaining half of Prime Press, and a genuine completist.
With the updated software, I was really cooking with gas. I got the project done in half the time.
It was equal to half a quarter, i.e. is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties.
I suppose he must have been all right, because you don't half cop it for killing a soldier.
The Thai-ruled cosmopoleis in the northern half of the peninsula were also known for their intense variety of trading groups.
Ms. Barrio, often rightly lauded for the power and intensity of her performances, lends her creaturelike presence to the second half.
She calls on the neighbours, she's out half the time and doesn't answer the telephone, and when I start cribbing she just laughs.
This positioning will create a crosslight that will leave half your subject in shadow.
The King's fifth of the mines, yields annually thirteen millions of crusadoes or half dollars.
England cut loose at the end of the half, Ashton, Mark Cueto and Mike Tindall all crossing before the break.
They were still there the next morning, flapping in the breeze. Filthy, grease stained pair of daks. The crotch half rotted away.
After completion of the first half of the study, subjects returned to sea level for one month to insure deacclimatization.
Talk to anyone with half a brain and they will tell you, regardless of their position, that this is an issue to be weighed, not demagogued.
Half by desipience, half by proclivity, he had come to live in a world where the only significant leisure activities were coupling and consuming.
Along the sofa every three and a half feet, fluorescent tubes glow through translucent plastic diffusers.
Its brown curtain was only half drawn, disclosing the elegant legs, clad in transparent black, of a female seated inside.
We found those hens, dozens it seemed, and half a dozen cocks, not counting the ones that we doglessly walked past.
And that German donkeydick must'a been three and a half feet long and five inches across.
In a drab first half, Ryan Shotton's drive was deflected on to a post and Jon Walters twice went close.
I took up the 'Christian Scientist' book and read half of it, then took a dipperful of drench and read the other half.
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The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.
Then she ripped the door off its hinges and bent the flimsy metal in half between her hands.
The second half was a less open affair, in which West Brom grew increasingly and efficiently conservative.
As half in the deep window embrazure, Lennon paused to watch her, the overhanging cliff ledges reverberated with an impatient call.
But rather than the end-to-end action of the first half, much of the entertainment took place in the Sunderland third.
Our task is only half finished. It will be my duty to enforce the decisions of the conference and I hereby pledge myself to that end.
Like C. S. Lewis's Narnia, the southwest tip of Michigan is an accessible escapeland, just an hour and a half from the city yet worlds apart.
London has one of the most ethnically diverse populations in the world. It absorbs more than half of all immigrants to Britain.
Some kind of exobiotic plague had run through the animal stock seven months back, and half of them had died.
It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion.
I was half way down the strip when I heard a speedboat and ran flat out back to the landing spot.
Pooley's eyes suddenly alighted upon a half empty bag of cement which lay among a few unused red flettons in the corner of the patio.
Frankfurts of the highest quality are prepared generally from a mixture of approximately half beef and half pork.
He started shipping about half a case of fresh country eggs to my parents every week or two.
If you showed half the interest in school as most of the kids, you could get a full ride to any college in the country.
It is too hot to eat much, so we lunch on bananas and the gache loaf bought the previous day, and set off for Guernsey at half past one.
Defining the devices so that they will be genned during the sysgen and installation is the other half.
Let's go back to the thirteen-year-old girl introduced in Chapter 8 who found out her godsister was her half sister.
Going wide with the scope of engagement, however, is only half of the equation behind fostering strong citizen engagement.
If that goofball would put half the effort into her studies as she does into her juggling, she might do very well.
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His inconsolable better half has to spend the whole of her time during this distressing grass-widowhood here.
His counterpart Neil Warnock got his tactics spot on as Chelsea struggled to get into any sort of groove in the first half.
Earl, who has lobstered, scalloped, groundfished and run tugs most of his life, is half joking.
Seems like half the gubmint bureaucrats and snake oil politicians want to help us.
These guessings of ours, for they are more than half guessings, may throw a glimmer of light on the mystery of doll selection.
George was half through a hole in the fence losing many feathers to Red, who was trying to help him back into the pen.
Proximal half of the primary orifice surrounded by an elevated rim of smooth gymnocystal calcification, somewhat quadrangular in outline.
He came back with a pint of Guinness for me and a half of bitter for Wendy.
For some time, the Midianites controlled part of the AraBa territories of Negeb desert and the half Island of Sinai.
Marshal Joseph Pilsudski, Poland's man of power, died here tonight.... Flags were lowered to half staffs.
I have just visited him at his mother's home where he is spending half term and we reminisced while looking at his photo album.
He was confused, half elated, half disappointed, and had not his wits about him.
About half of the population increase between 1991 and 2001 was due to immigration.
In 2009, half of British gas was supplied from imports as domestic reserves are depleted.
The bottom half, or the bun heel is placed in the carton, and the pickle slices spread evenly over the meat or cheese.
I have half a mind to marry that heifer, tho' wives are bothersome critters when you have too many of them.
Horse mackerel and hake are the most important species, together representing almost half of the landings.
Slightly more than half, mainly in the west, is designated as the Isle of Wight Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The north coast is unusual in having four high tides each day, with a double high tide every twelve and a half hours.
The transition of the Migration period to the Middle Ages proper took place over the course of the second half of the 1st millennium.
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In the middle of the 19th century, half the world textile industry's bobbin supply came from the Lake District area.
The Greater Manchester and Merseyside areas are home to almost 4 million people, and over half the region's population.
The coal and shipbuilding industry that once dominated the North East suffered a marked decline during the second half of the 20th century.
I hunted him for half a hour, aiming to learn him to hit a man with a table-leg and then run, but I didn't find him.
Most of the Scottish commissioners favoured union, and about half were government ministers and other officials.
He had received around half of the funding awarded by the Westminster treasury for himself.
The WHO estimated in 2009 that there are around half a million people on board aircraft at any given time.
Scotland is half the size of England and Wales in area, but has roughly the same length of coastline.
Joe idly hoboed through half the country till he realized hoboing never gets you anywhere in life.
If the pattern followed that in England, then the population may have fallen to as low as half a million by the end of the 15th century.
The second half of the 19th century saw a huge expansion of Britain's colonial empire, mostly in Africa.
About half of those are located on the European continent, rather than on the British Isles.
The return for each Hundred was sworn to by 12 local jurors, half of them English and half of them Norman.
Baltica formed roughly the northwestern half of Ireland and Scotland.
After half a year of being trapped, Pedro I finally entered the city.
He does sometimes half wish to change his life, but it is too difficult.
Half share of dining room on second story, fourth of open air apartment above the accubitum with half of porch, pylon, terrace, passage way and bake shop.
An aerodrome, chiefly of steel, weighing, apart from fuel and water, about twenty-four pounds, was launched on the Potomac River on May 6, 1896, and flew for over half a mile.
Horace lost his forty-shilling Akubra hat and did not stop for it and the Elizabeth Street cable tram sliced it in half before he had gone another block.
On the other hand, in the same crannog, a hammerstone broken in two was found, each half in a different place, as were two parts of a figurine at Dumbuck.
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The sinner of the first half cut in from the left wing, losing his marker to take a gentle pass from Ceri Sweeney and leave Bristol's Craig Morgan frozen in his tracks.
In Chicago these latter were receiving, for the most part, eighteen and a half cents an hour, and the unions wished to make this the general wage for the next year.
Longing, officious, anhedonic, pleading. Anna tried to make a list of every mood she'd ever been in but ran out of words before even half of her feelings were named.
Much of the northern antidivision sentiment in 1887 was rooted in the fear that statehood for the southern half alone might doom the north to indefinite territorial status.
Antithyroid drugs, which have been in use for more than half a century, remain cornerstones in the management of hyperthyroidism, especially for patients with Graves' disease.
It is an astounding fact that at least half of geological time passed before there were living creatures with parts sufficiently hard to form fossils.
Spurs ended the half in the ascendancy and Van der Vaart was again inches away from giving them the lead when he met Bale's cross but his header flew wide.
However, other geneticists place the Germanic estimate up to half.
France lost half its population during the Hundred Years' War.
A blue haze, half dust, half mist, touched the long valley with mystery.
The Belgian colonies, if they adhere to these limits, must provide for all their wants at a lower cost by one half than the French as a bare minimum.
In 1656, the plague killed about half of Naples' 300,000 inhabitants.
When half the children were dressed again, some peasant women in their Sunday best, out picking herbs, came up to the bathing-hut and stopped shyly.
I managed to beat him down to half his original asking price.
However, even prior to 1948, half of Scotland's landmass was already covered by state funded health care, provided by the Highlands and Islands Medical Service.
The plague of 1649 probably reduced the population of Seville by half.
During the first half of 1349 the Black Death spread northwards.
Fewer than half of all drivers consider themselves to be below average.
Almost half of stocks are fished at biologically unsustainable levels.
Next, the set of tweets was split-recoded by both coders, with one half being blind recoded by each researcher and then exchanged and checked for intercoder agreement.
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Up a street called The Grove, just before the tax office, there's this alley, half hidden by a skip overflowing with bin-bags smelling of bubbling nappies.
The most important species, the Argentine shortfin squid, which reached half a million tonnes in 2013 or half the peak value, is considered fully fished to overfished.
When my father had the bit between his teeth he would work all day and half the night, barely stopping to eat, snapping at anyone who interrupted him.
The heroine of Walter Besant's novel Armorel of Lyonesse came from Samson, and about half the action of the novel takes place in the Isles of Scilly.
Interline twitter occurs on interlaced displays at half the field-rate.
Celtic captain Scott Brown joined team-mate Majstorovic in the book and Rangers' John Fleck was also shown a yellow card as an ill-tempered half drew to a close.
For these sixty-seven and a half miles of fence we must have three men known as boundary riders. A boundary rider is one whose duty is to see that the fence is in order.
For example, if the value of the Mexican peso falls by half compared to the US dollar, the Mexican Gross Domestic Product measured in dollars will also halve.
They then scattered half a dozen scraggy chooks hell, west and crooked.
You can turn your brights on and that helps quite a bit, but you can not leave them on. So you end up driving beyond your headlights more than half the time.
Their first half was marred by the entire side playing too deep, completely unable to build up any form of decent possession once the ball left their bewildered defence.
Heathrow received more than 25,000 noise complaints in just three months over the summer of 2016, but around half were made by the same ten people.
One cachet on an empty stomach first thing in the morning, a second in one and a half hours, a third in one hour afterwards, and a fourth two hours later.
The commencement of the Industrial Revolution is closely linked to a small number of innovations, beginning in the second half of the 18th century.
You may not know La Baule. Think of it as Bognor Regis. Now, you may have spent half your life there, but I do not believe you ever heard Beethoven playing in the air.
Albert didn't notice the switch, the subliminal flash and hiccup in time as the man he had been talking to only seconds before was catapulted backwards half an hour.
The European Parliament forms the other half of the EU's legislature.
There was prosperity, as the national income per person grew by half.
The only other significant passenger airport in the region was Blackpool Airport, which was refurbished in 2006 and handled around half a million passengers annually.
He withdrew in disarray in December 1589, having lost half his troops.
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Brendan Foster established the annual Great North Run, one of the best known half marathons in which thousands of participants run from Newcastle to South Shields.
Sometimes when you sit in a restaurant, still stuffing yourself half an hour after closing time, you feel that the tired waiter at your side must surely be despising you.
In the 19th century the Dissenters who went to chapel comprised half the people who actually attended services on Sunday, according to an 1852 census.
The thesaurus lists two pages of mechanical tools, two pages of joining functions, and a half page of adhesives, binders, and cohesives used to build or repair consumer goods.
In 1940, a national milk scheme was launched, which provided a pint of milk at about half price for all children under the age of five, and for expectant or nursing mothers.
A group of nymphs was infected as described, and 45 days after intracelomic inoculation, the salivary glands from half of the nymphs were dissected.
Archaeologists have claimed that as much as half of the best British Iron Age art and metalwork discovered in Britain has been found in the London area.
The Scottish monarchy in the Middle Ages was a largely itinerant institution, before Edinburgh developed as a capital city in the second half of the 15th century.
Spain lacked the wealth and the interest to develop an extensive economic infrastructure in its African colonies during the first half of the 20th century.
When the water in the copper boils, the arsenic and tartar, well pounded, is put into it, and kept boiling till the liquor is reduced to about half.
Further north still lay the great Pictish kingdom of Fortriu, which after the Battle of Dun Nechtain in 685 came to be the strongest power in the northern half of Britain.
The first half of his thesis was his work with atomic numbers.
The two ships will be crewing in the latter half of September.
We had to hold our teams about half an hour until the immense herd passed. Men that were loose-handed fired many shots among them, and three bucks were killed.
The foreman. As tough an hombre who ever lived. If Mr. Bell had sent Jackson instead of me, he'd take your rifle and beat you half to death with it.
The convex half of an achromatic lens is composed of crown glass.
The company chose to downsize by laying off half of its workers.
Tuition fees at public universities are less than half those of private universities because the Taiwan government puts more funding to the public universities.
The kief, which is the flower and seeds of the plant, is the strongest, and a pipe of it half the size of a common English tobacco-pipe, is sufficient to intoxicate.
Nearly half the fleet were not built as warships and were used for duties such as scouting and dispatch work, or for carrying supplies, animals, and troops.

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