Sentence examples for half and counting from inspiring English sources

"The tools we use today are almost akin to cutting a tree in half and counting the rings.

He is said at one point to be 10, though how this could be determined without cutting him in half and counting his rings is unclear.

Since then, it has inspired a will to discard, it seems, in a million and a half (and counting) American book-purchasers with too much stuff.

We then exclude reads that are ranked in the lower half, and count each read ranked in the upper half only once, ignoring duplicates.

So, six and a half decades and counting.

According to…well…our own attempts to browse Secret while lying in bed this morning, on bathroom breaks (c'mon, admit you do this too), and, oh yes, Twitter posts, the app has been down for at least three and a half hours and counting.

More than half the states — and counting — have legalized some form of medical marijuana.

The phenomenal sales of his latest live DVD (half a million and counting), and an upcoming autobiography published by Harper-Collins this October, will keep the television interest in Carr burning over the summer months.

As you may know, more human beings now occupy our planet than have occupied it at any other time in all of history or prehistory — some six and a half billion souls, and counting — and when these people die, as they're all going to do, we can anticipate that all but.0001 per cent of them will not be going to Heaven.

Saturday's long program will last for four and a half minutes and count for two-thirds of the scoring.

To accurately age a stranded dolphin, a veterinary pathologist will cut a tooth in half and count the growth layers that develop like the annual rings seen in a cross section of tree trunk.