Sentence examples for ended half from inspiring English sources

He also believes the collapse of a rival superpower has ended half a century of stability.

When "Something to Talk About" ended half an hour later, Ms. Graham broke up the set and took the chairs to her car.

That vote ended half a century of direct military rule and installed a military-backed civilian government that has since enacted several reforms and has maintained continuing contacts with Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi.

When the DPJ ended half a century of one-party rule last year, voters had hoped that this sort of brainless, self-obsessed politics as usual would be the first thing on its hit list.

Relations with China have been especially jittery since Taiwan's election last month of the new president, Chen Shui-bian, a former democracy activist who long advocated Taiwan's independence and whose victory ended half a century of Nationalist rule.

We biked to the edge of the old runway — the farthest stretch of concrete on the island, turned right onto a gravel road which ended half a mile later at a fence amid the wild mangroves.

Thein Sein's government took office in March, ending half a century of military rule.

We American conservatives tend to focus on the broad statistics of divorce, which ends half of all American marriages.

Mr Blair has the chance to end half a century of vacillation about Britain's relations with the European mainland.

It won't bring Harold Holt back but it just might be enough to end half a century of heartbreak.

Its retirement will leave America without any means to launch its own astronauts into orbit, and end half a century of Nasa's dominance in space exploration.