An hour later, several of Mr. Romney's staff members were assembling in the back of a half-filled ballroom, mumbling about the staggering margins by which they had lost states they had expected to be close.
Fulham's achievements in the FA Cup since then could be written on the back of a half-time lottery ticket, and West Brom had not navigated a passage to the semi-finals for 20 years.
He was fidgeting at the back of a half-empty cafe one recent evening near the offices of Le Figaro, the newspaper where he works, notwithstanding that detractors have lately tried to get him fired for his most recent inflammatory remarks about French blacks and Arabs on a television show.
Waiting in the back of a limousine half a mile from the carpet itself was Liza Minnelli.
He sees his city as clawing its way back from a half century of postindustrial blight, with $550 million invested in or committed to Paterson since 1998.
We tried a combination plate called ribs for all, which included a half-rack of baby back ribs, a half of St . Louisribs and four monster beef bones.
" Take one leg and move it back in sort of a half step.
Witness the March news that the thriller author Barry Eisler had backed out of a half-million-dollar deal with St. Martin's Press, his new publisher.
"The second half was a damp squib but the result was the main thing and that came off the back of a good first half.
He scored Scotland's second, peeling off the back of a lineout, stepping half way around Fife, then shrugging off his half‑hearted tackle.
"This summer, on the back of a dynamic first half year, Eurotunnel again set new traffic records," said Jacques Gounon, chairman and chief executive of Groupe Eurotunnel.
