Sentence examples for border half from inspiring English sources

By the time the train reached the border, half of the passengers were gone.

Five years ago, federal biologists began to introduce endangered Mexican gray wolves in remote mountains near the Arizona-New Mexico border, half a century after the end of concerted campaigns to wipe them out.

Dr. Steve Fox's West Gilgo Beach home near the ocean still falls within the flood zone in the new maps, but it is on the border; half of the house next door is out of the flood zone.

The next day, the boy's grandmother took him and several other injured family members to the Golan Heights border half an hour away and asked the Israeli soldiers on the other side for help.

Some firms will rush lorries through the border half-empty, if they fear long queues.

Yet this connection is not as obvious as it sounds.The reality is that even in America, a country with two huge and porous land borders, half of the people living without legal status probably arrived legally and then overstayed their visas.

Georgia says Russian forces in South Ossetia have pushed the de facto border nearly  half a mile into its territory.

In the 2000s, Goz Beïda – a sleepy market town 70km from the Sudanese border, with half a dozen concrete buildings and no electricity – underwent a demographic explosion.

Earlier this month, at a San Diego middle school near the Mexico border, nearly half of the seventh- and eighth-graders raise their hands.

An Amritsar-based haulage boss, whose family has run lorries to and from the border for half a century, says he has doubled his fleet to 80, ready for the boom.

Situated at 501 Kings Highway East (Post Road), less than a mile from the Bridgeport border and half a mile from Exit 24 of I-95, it backs up to a 20-acre conservation area and the Rooster River.