Sentence examples for half of dinner from inspiring English sources

I spent the first half of dinner plotting escape routes.

At least you're only missing the first half of dinner this time".[25].

According to the research firm NPD Group, close to half of dinners purchased from a restaurant are now consumed at home, partly because it can be cheaper and faster to eat at home, partly because there's more entertainment at home (think Netflix) and partly because of the rise of on-demand delivery services like Uber and Postmates.

Now more than half of the dinner menu is available at lunch, and Ssam has abandoned the burritos, which were long its least successful items.

We're not getting married anytime soon, I have debt, there are hungry people in the world, etc. Would it be amiss to see if friends and family want to chip in for his half of the dinner?

Some of his latest work takes an earlier finding – that people increase their fruit and vegetable intake by 24% if they are told that half of their dinner plate should be reserved for these foods – and applies it to supermarket shopping.

Susan Tucker, a nutritional counselor and founder of Green Beat Life (a nutrition-counseling practice in New York City) suggests that you fill half of your dinner plate with vegetables, a quarter with a starch, and the remaining quarter with protein.

When the bill came, he very awkwardly -- and rudely -- asked me to pay for half of the dinner and couldn't figure out why he wasn't getting a third date.

You start each day with a morning plunge into icy water, getting everyone to school/work then do an an eight-hour bike ride, all topped off with a half-marathon of dinner, homework, baths and bedtime.

Described as a tropical TGIF by Mark Gilbert, one of its owners, Bahama Tropics will feature tropical drinks, beers, appetizers and a half-American, half-Caribbean menu of dinner entrees priced from $9 to $20. Barrington's, a casual American-Continental restaurant at 1902 Jericho Turnpike, New Hyde Park (516-775-1888), has been opened for about four months.

Fewer than 50 selections, mostly Italian, American and French, at prices that begin at $19. PRICE RANGE -- Lunch, sandwiches $8 to $10; specials are about half the price of dinner entrees.