Sentence examples for half gone by from inspiring English sources

The sheet cake frosted as an American flag was half gone by noon.

For most, that glass of soda with dinner at 7 p.m. will only be half gone by 1 a.m.

A year and a half went by.

After his initial e-mail messages in 2006, a year and a half went by before he again e-mailed Father Hullermann and again received a response from a representative of the archdiocese handling child-abuse cases, Msgr.

"Certainly if a year and a half went by and there was no one on the scene and people are still clamoring, I would have to take that into consideration," he said in the interview.

Mr. Petit pointed out that more than a year and a half went by in the case announced Tuesday before other companies in the sector reported the problem and the commission took action, "which suggests that this approach just did not work" because "no one noticed".

A year and a half went by, and nothing happened in the House.

Over a decade and a half went by and I was still filming my teacher, still waiting for a story to appear.

"A month and a half went by, so I talked to her again and she goes, 'rheumatology is not taking any new patients,'" Dove recalled.

By Marianne Moore The New Yorker, July 18 , 1959P. 22 St. Jerome and his lion, in that hermitage of wall half gone, View Article By Rivka Galchen By Jia Tolentino By Malcolm Gladwell By Zoë Heller.

By Marianne Moore The New Yorker, July 18 , 1959P. 22 St. Jerome and his lion, in that hermitage of wall half gone, View Article By Rebecca Mead By Anthony Lane By Atul Gawande By Jia Tolentino.