Sentence examples for a decent half from inspiring English sources

1.44pm GMT A decent half of football from Blackburn, ruined, obviously, by its final moments.

Updated at 5.15pm GMT 3.38pm GMT Overworked sub-editors around the country had their returning hero headlines ready when they heard that Dempsey had the ball in the net with a decent half volley but they had to go back to the ironing board when they heard that a foul was called for a Berbatov challenge on O'Shea in the build-up.

That looked like giving England a decent half-time lead until Nightingale produced an acrobatic effort just before the break.

Within seconds Evania Pelite had darted over in the corner to give Australia a decent half-time advantage.

A quick question: Is Barack Obama running for reëlection on the basis of a decent, half-decent, or poor economy?

By John Cassidy May 29 , 2012A quick question: Is Barack Obama running for reëlection on the basis of a decent, half-decent, or poor economy?

But for all its merits, and I'll possibly watch again when it gets down to the wire, it was still just a decent half-hour's TV, squeezed into an hour.

Sidney Lumet's "Running on Empty," about a radical 60's couple on the run with their children, came out seven years later and didn't do a whole lot better, although it has enjoyed a decent half-life on tape.

But like most bank PR campaigns, it's not even a decent half-truth: The full truth is, we risk ever-bigger economic blowups in the future, and utterly wrecking our trust in financial markets, if we let this sort of behavior continue.

After a decent first half of the year, it's a setback.

And after a decent first half, Houston took just four more shots in the game.