Sentence examples for almost half the length from inspiring English sources

Tunisia has built a 125-mile barrier along almost half the length of its border with Libya in an attempt to stop militants infiltrating.

She is chary of writing off her countrymen as apathetic, however: there was one march, she recalls, where some demonstrators travelled almost half the length of the country to protest against hospital closures.

Welcome to Texas's 2,000km border zone, which makes up almost half the length of the line separating the US and Mexico.

The visitors looked much more livelier from the outset and it was no surprise when Edwards carried the ball almost half the length of the pitch and scored with an effort that diverted off Leon Barnett and looped over the head of goalkeeper Scott Carson.

Some of them influenced almost half the length of the branches, for example, the branches of TDC225 and TDC280.

His engaging foreword points out that Roth delivered the manuscript at almost half the agreed length – and that was including a block of text lifted wholesale from a previous book.

The results show that for the two optimization objectives the thicknesses of the optimized fins are almost equal, but the lengths are different obviously: the former length of the elemental fin is almost half the value of the latter length, and the former length of the first-order fin is almost twice as large as the latter length.

The subsidies absorb almost half the European Union budget.

"America is almost half the market.

Almost half the entrants are female.

Almost half the population lives in poverty.