Sentence examples for half rather than from inspiring English sources

As a result, the AquAdvantage salmon typically reach their adult size in a year and a half, rather than three years.

But now Mr. Wilcoxon will be able to book a profit if the stock price increases by less than half, rather than quadrupling.

They kept the ball in hand in the opening half rather than kicking for position, looking to their offloading to thwart their opponents' strategy of double-tackling, one going high and the other low to prevent release of the ball.

Once on the Triple Crown trail, Servis kept to an easy-does-it training method, opting to gallop Smarty Jones daily for distances reaching a mile and a half rather than taking him for frequent breezes or racespeed workouts.

Try terribly current camel shades on your bottom half, rather than a ubiquitous coat, and wear with the chunkiest, geekiest and fluffiest over-the-knee socks you can find – rolled down to reveal an inch or two of leg, of course.

In this light it might be hard to understand why Aviva is buying a British company, expanding the British share of its business to well over half, rather than putting its chips on booming markets.Aviva has in fact pruned many of its foreign operations.

A long way short of thrilling with ball in hand, they have picked the promising Harry Mallinder ahead of Luther Burrell  at inside-centre and Tom Kessell at scrum-half rather than the club captain, Lee Dickson.

38min: Looked a bit tough on Shaw – he was chasing Du Preez as he went back to collect the ball on the floor, and seemed to stumble over the scrum-half, rather than act out of malice.

In November last year he opted out of playing for Gareth Southgate's team against Portugal and France as he said he wanted to go back to Tottenham to work on his game as a centre-half, rather than play at right-back.

The governor envisages saving $741m by giving some 325,000 state employees unpaid days off; eliminating two days of their holidays; cutting their overtime payments; and requiring them to fund one-half, rather than one-quarter, of their future pensions, which they are also being bribed to forgo.The Democrats claim that Mr Schwarzenegger's real victims are the working poor.

Their decision to play the controlling Jimmy Gopperth at outside-half rather than the more mercurial Ian Madigan helped minimise their errors and Ospreys kept running up cul-de-sacs, lacking the resources on the bench to change the course of the game.