Sentence examples for half rises from inspiring English sources

He half rises, proffers a hand and sinks back onto the sofa in one casual movement that barely disturbs the crease in his slacks.

Such doors consist of an upper and lower leaf, mechanically linked so that the bottom half drops to floor level while the top half rises above the cab roof.

"I think they're going to fight," Christopher said nervously, half rising from his seat.

Operating profit for the first half rose to 1.021 billion euros from 553 million in 1999.

Sales in the company's first half rose by a fifth, to $18.2 billion.

Even fairy tales turn out to be half manufactured by a commercial enterprise, half risen from the folkish ground.

Revenues for the first half rose 20 per cent to £751.6 million, thanks to  a huge 198 per cent leap in mobile revenues.

LVMH said that revenue in the first half rose 12percentto to 5.6 billion euros ($4.7 billion), from 5 billion euros a year earlier.

Profits in the first half rose 440% to £125m, bolstered by the acquisition last year of £3.3bn of mortgages from Northern Rock.

Still, the value of United States deals in the first half rose 29 percent, helped by a few large transactions, according to the report.

The hill station (resort) of Mahabaleshwar, located on a laterite plateau, is one of the highest elevations in the northern half, rising to 4,700 feet (1,430 metres).