Sentence examples for effect half from inspiring English sources

In effect, half a million men, many with guns, were sent into the streets.

No privately managed environmental easement has been in effect half that long, he noted.

The effect, half comedic, especially with one well-timed heckle "Go on Chris, jump!" and emotive at the same time, as they played their first hit "Yellow".

They didn't yet know it, but in an hour or so an adapted form of their chosen weapon was about to be deployed to spectacular effect half way across the world, in a way that would elevate their status as international pariahs.

When all of these take effect, half of the states will mandate wages higher than the federal minimum.

(By contrast, the United States requires overtime pay for non-manager workers who work more than 40 hours a week. But even after a regulatory change by President Barack Obama goes into effect, half of the American workforce will be exempt from mandatory overtime).

When ad sales were down, networks were more willing to sell the government what was, in effect, half-price advertising time.

Compared with the paste alone, both of the SDC-microsphere preloads (slow and comparably slower digesting) decreased gastric emptying rate of the paste, with the latter having the most effect (half-emptying times of 1.7, 2.3, and 2.8 hours, respectively [each different at P < .05]).05]

"They lead to effects half a year later, like spending cuts.

In that study, a high dose of Vioxx caused gastrointestinal (GI) side effects half as often as the normal dose of naproxen, an older drug, in rheumatoid arthritis patients.

In their view, Gardasil seems safer than most vaccines with its reported serious side effects "half the average".