Sentence examples for a half matches from inspiring English sources

Five and a half matches yielded 107 sixes and 345 fours.

Wales has not conceded a try since Brian O'Driscoll crossed for Ireland just after halftime in Cardiff, 277 minutes or nearly three and a half matches ago.

He was released on a free transfer by Liverpool in 1999, having not played at all the previous season, and joined West Ham, where he played one and a half matches before being forced by his knee pain to retire at the age of 27.

He will know full well that he has had a near-perfect ride to this stage of the Open – four and a half matches without dropping a set – while his opponent has to recover from a gruelling five-setter against Roddick.

It took only four deliveries for Lancashire to account for Nottinghamshire's last man Gurney, although it was not James Anderson adding to his impressive haul of 54 first-class wickets in seven and a half matches here but Kabir Ali, an England bowler with a more distant past.

Here, he took his personal tally to 17 victims in one and a half matches in an otherwise underwhelming bowling effort and surpassed that 60 with a top score of 63 from No8.It was the 26-year-old's consistent wicket taking – at around 22 runs apiece – that caught England's attention back in 2012 and earned him Lions recognition, only for injury to blight him last summer.

4.09pm GMT 50 min: Minimum number of goals needed by Mali in the next 39 minutes if they are to stay in this tournament: 3. Number of goals scored by Mali in four-and-a-half matches in this tournament thus far: 3. Hmmm... the prognosis is not good.

If it's an hour-and-a-half match, great.

The longest they have gone without conceding a goal all season is a mere 173 minutes and that was back in August and September, while their five-and-a-half-match drought has been the second longest by any team in England's top tier thus far.

In a half-match transplant, known medically as haploidentical transplant, only 50 percent of the pertinent genes have to match up.

Siblings have a one-in-four chance of a complete match of the HLA antigens, a one-in-four chance of no match, and a one-in-two chance of a half-match.