Sentence examples for began half from inspiring English sources

More than 6,000 people have been killed since the conflict began – half of them civilians and more than 1,100 of them children, according to the UN.

This could reflect expectations of weak sales, and less of a payoff to new investment: annual productivity growth has slowed to 1% since the recovery began, half its long-run average.

IN A Washington Post story on a new poll on economic conditions we read this:Obama has pledged to enact a massive economic stimulus plan initiating publicly funded construction on a scale not seen since work on the interstate highway system began half a century ago.

The HIP movement, which began half a century ago with the aim of using historical sources and, where possible, period instruments to play music in a way that its composer might have intended, has long since ceased to occupy a market niche peopled by eccentrics and zealots.

Robert Pozo, the executive director for the series, said he was inspired by the World Triathlon Corporation, which organizes the Ironman Triathlon and in 2006 began half Ironman-distance events called the Ironman 70.3 Series (referring to the total miles that competitors swim, bike and run).

Aerial firing began half an hour later.

As fall gave way to winter last year, and Lower Manhattan began to re-emerge, you began half-hearing that voice as you passed reopened boutiques and haircutters' shops.

The conversation had begun half a year earlier, when I visited Nadezhda "Nadya" Tolokonnikova in prison.

It dispenses with exposition and explanation and begins half way through the book.

The second comes in January, when $1.2 trillion in automatic 10-year spending cuts begin, half in military programs, unless the White House and Congress agree to alternative savings.

Many of the glasses are half full, or rather — judging by the discontented expression of the woman who is the stage's sole occupant when the play begins — half empty.