Sentence examples for half takes from inspiring English sources

Set in a theatre in some provincial Italian location, the first half takes place just before the outbreak of the second world war.

Cutting an Hermès Birkin bag in half takes audacity, but if anyone can do it and get away with it, it's Jean Paul Gaultier.

The first half takes place entirely within the 12-foot-square room in which a young woman has spent her last seven years since being abducted aged 19.

After a palate-cleansing primer on 2015 politics, which memorably tags Labour as a band you've loved for years who suddenly release a difficult experimental album, the first half takes happiness as its theme.

With its fetishistic shots of jukeboxes that still play 45s, and reverence for road movies like "Vanishing Point," "Death Proof" is a love letter to pop archivalism as cozy as the roadhouse in which the first half takes place.

A very pleasant meander of a mile and half takes you to Lower Slaughter, a champagne truffle in this chocolate-box locale, where you can saunter round the recently restored water mill (entrance to the small museum is a heady £1.25) and its souvenir and retro-clothing shop, and enjoy homemade ice-creams or a cuppa by the mill pond.

Nearly half took paid leave.

The second half took a similar course.

In one study, half the patients took Prilosec, and half took Son of Prilosec.

Jonny Wilkinson, the England fly half, took up position.

Given the choice, more than half took the reduced schedule.