Sentence examples for certainly half from inspiring English sources

"Maybe I couldn't write 'Friends,' " Mr. Shayne said, "but certainly half the shows on television I could write".

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt's glass was certainly half-full when he gave an update on Wednesday on how the special measures regime for failing hospitals has worked out.

"She certainly deserves half of this award," he added dryly.

They almost certainly know half a dozen or more sites where they can find another cow and calf.

"We've probably bottomed out, but the glass is certainly not half full," said Stephen P. A. Brown, the director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

I was continually reminded of Harold Bloom's remark about all great books being strange: Ledgard has certainly got half the equation right.

Alone among the big investment houses, Morgan Stanley refuses to disclose what proportion of its overall fund sales are proprietary, but the number is widely believed to be large, certainly over half; in some years it has been 80% or more.In the past, there have been any number of efforts to stop firms pushing their own funds over those managed by third parties.

Cows were certainly around half a million years ago, but humans were not yet smart enough to domesticate them - or tame dogs, or invent the bow and arrow.

Certainly the half-dozen men waiting here on a recent morning were pacing and proud, sure that their oil would be the best.

The trend has been upwards, certainly since half-time at White Hart Lane last month, even if that particular afternoon had ended with his dismissal and that unpunished but catty scratch at Jan ­Vertonghen.

As concept records go, it's not quite up there with The Point! by Nilsson (which he even made into a cartoon), but it's certainly not half-assed.