Sentence examples for half as great from inspiring English sources

The upper end, 5 million gallons, would make the volume of drilling mud nearly half as great as the volume of crude oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez accident off Alaska in 1989.

Usually, writing this blog requires a careful suppression of my naturally benevolent attitude towards fantasy fare in the knowledge that most of these movies don't end up being half as great as we expect them to be.

On a standard measure predicting the altitude at which the atmospheric pressure is half as great as at sea level it still trails the ECMWF model.Nonetheless, the GFS's strong showing during January's nor'easter offers solace to critics who feared America would never catch up with Europe in matters meteorological.

This is plausible, because the cancer mortality rate (the unconditional probability of dying from cancer) is about half as great as the cancer incidence rate (the probability of being diagnosed with cancer).

Put it this way: If what Goldilocks sampled had tasted half as great as Alter's soft egg dish, she would have bumped off the bears and devoured all three bowls too hot or cold be damned.

For all scales considered, the native species abundance in areas with P. chinensis was half as great as that in control plots for all designs and scales considered.

You can still hear great Caesar's ghost! rendered half as often as great God! and great Scott! while great day in the mornin' has gained a rural connotation, and a jocular quality has overtaken great balls of fire!

Modis found in a recent report that age is considered the largest impediment to diversity in technology, two and a half times as great as gender diversity and three times as great as ethnic diversity.

The Partnership emphasizes that New York City already has the steepest "tax burden" in the nation, and that its cost of living is one and a half times as great as the national average.

In real terms, between 2000 and 2012 Venezuela's total oil revenues were more than two and a half times as great as those of the preceding 13 years even though output declined after 2000 (see chart 1).

Women who showed the least ability to exercise intensively and required extra time for their heartbeats to return to normal had a risk of cardiovascular death three and a half times as great as other women, the researchers found.