Sentence examples for half rising from inspiring English sources

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

"We'll leave right now," Maguire volunteered, half rising from the banquette as if prepared to drive at that moment to the airport and hop the first flight for Zurich.

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).

And here she didn't disappoint, half rising from her set and near-on hypnotising the 40-year old pop poppet and friend of that Robin Thicke with her brazen gaze.

The only surprise was Loic Remy's failure to find the net after scoring eight goals in his previous eight games for Newcastle - though he had the only other chance of a flat first half, rising highest to head an effort off the shoulder of Billy Jones and out for a corner.

The results of MUAC screening performed every month during the 2007 distribution show that, despite the annual hunger gap season, the prevalence of children with MUAC<110 mm between May and August decreased by half, rising slightly in September and October (data not shown).

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.