Sentence examples similar to half as former from inspiring English sources

Red flags of Albania, bearing the black eagle, flew at half staff as former soldiers and villagers balanced on top of trucks to catch a glimpse of the proceedings.

And not half as clean.

Father: "Half as far".

And Rovers grabbed their fourth on the stroke of half-time as former Cardiff striker Gestede headed in his third.

The design, drawn up when Missouri law still mandated the segregation of public facilities, originally designated the Pruitt half of the complex (named after second world war fighter pilot Wendell O Pruitt) for black residents only, and the Igoe half (after former US Congressman William L Igoe) as white only.

The North-South side was only partly destroyed, and the owners initially thought the building could stand as half of its former self.

Of course, as former, half-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has informed the world, BP wouldn't have been drilling in the Gulf -- within spitting distance of pipelines and oil refineries -- if the extreme enviros had only allowed drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge far from anything.

More than half of which is available as former grassland [7].

The visitors defended deep, often with nine players inside their own half, and suffocated talents such as former Barcelona striker Eto'o and ex-Real Madrid midfielder Lassana Diarra.

The latter genes were only about half as divergent as the former and showed evolutionary rates similar to those of female-biased and unbiased genes.

Yet today Wang, soon to be renamed Wang Global, has 22,100 employees again and revenues, at an expected $3.8 billion this year, are half again as high as at the former peak.