Sentence examples for contain half from inspiring English sources

Rainforests cover just 3% of the planet yet contain half of the world's species, David Attenborough told us in last week's episode of Planet Earth.

It also warms the up crowd – who contain half the Perth music scene, with members of Jebediah, Karnivool, Sugar Army and Boom!

You will learn lots of amusing facts – elephants can hold two gallons of water in their trunks, which contain half a million taste receptors.

This has been developed in the past year and is said to contain half the sugar, carbohydrates and calories of regular colas.

The reproductive cells contain half the number of chromosomes of the rest of the body; ova carry an X chromosome and spermatozoa an X or a Y.

The tables contain half as many books as the shelves but sell twice as many, she said, later adding that, while some people like getting lost in the stacks, for others, buying from tables was "more joyous".

The genomes of the other species included in our analysis do not contain half-size ABC-A transporters, and mostly contain just a single gene for a full-length ABC-A transporter.

The slinky contained half a mile of metal.

Their capacious abdomens contained half a dozen ovaries that could produce eggs.

Today some 18 countries, containing half the world's people, are overpumping their aquifers.

They were driving a van containing half a tonne of bomb-making material.