Sentence examples for half the surface from inspiring English sources
About half the surface waters of the Northern Hemisphere freeze annually.
Greg Girard's Half the Surface of the World" is on exhibit as part of the "Perspectives" series at the International Center of Photography in New York.
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Such a tragedy is now unfolding, causing serious damage to a resource that covers almost half the surface of the Earth.The high seas the bit of the oceans that lies beyond coastal states' 200-mile exclusive economic zones are a commons.
But "it is difficult to imagine that the founders' far-sighted vision of World Heritage protection envisaged a future world where we intentionally or accidentally ended up excluding half the surface of the earth the open ocean," Rössler writes.
According to Dr. Plass, the latest calculations indicate that if the carbon dioxide content of the earth were doubled the surface temperature would rise 3.6° C and that if the amount were reduced by half the surface temperature would fall 3.8° C. Such a comparatively small fluctuation seems of no importance.
Place the tube so that it is half on the surface and half off the edge, with the end that is baited off the edge.
A mile and a half below the surface was a formation called the Barnett Shale.
The crossing took an hour and a half, and the surface of the water was as still as a millpond.
The outer columns themselves all lean inward slightly; if extended, they would meet a mile and a half above the surface of the earth.
