The glass, all of a sudden, has become half full," said A. C. Moore, chief market strategist with Dunvegan Associates in Santa Barbara, Calif.
During the final stage, thermodiffusive instabilities are triggered along the front whose thickness has become half of the initial mainly because of the increased pressure.
Now the wise men of sport have become half poets, half anthropologists, neither one too thoroughly.
In the last 18 months, hand-held global positioning systems have become half as expensive while offering better functionality and more features.
Their products compete directly with Apple's, in both the courtroom and the market, and now that Google has bought Motorola, they too have become half a competitor.
The fairly smart, put together person I was at the start of the project had become half crazed by the end.
Ten minutes before the end … the stadium had become half-empty," Maarten Wijffels wrote in Algemeen Dagblad.
Despite how large the mobile electronics market has become, nearly half of consumers prefer to have such devices installed at the factory, according to a study by the Consumer Electronics Association.
It's a sign of just how fashionable the humble sardine has become that half the tins of sardines, mussels, squid, octopus, tuna and eels lining the shelves of Sol e Pesca now come wrapped in beautiful modern designs.
During the event, Jered Gruber, a former professional cyclist who has become one half of the renowned photography team Gruber Images, made a habit of pointing out at lunchtime that the morning's endeavours amounted to a substantial achievement in their own right, and repeating them in the afternoon seemed a little unnecessary.
What with 2012, The Road, The Book Of Eli, Watchmen, Legion, Avatar, The Crazies, and, erm, BBC1's The Day Of The Triffids remake, late 2009 and the start of 2010 has become The Half Year Of Living Dangerously, in which viewers are hearteningly reassured that the world as we know it is about to come to an end and we're pretty much all going to die, horribly.
