Sentence examples for having been half from inspiring English sources

Many journalists spend -- some say waste -- enormous amounts of time pursuing a hot story not so much to serve readers or viewers as to be able to boast of having been half a step ahead of competitors in learning details of a municipal budget, the resignation of a cabinet member and, yes, the scheduled announcement of a vice-presidential candidate.

In the case of "A Woman in Berlin," an anonymous woman's clear-eyed, dispassionate account of having been half-starved and raped multiple times during the occupation of Berlin in 1945 posed a threat to her in about a thousand different ways.

In fact, it may not have been half so calculated.

Three, he may already have been half mad.

But it wouldn't have been half as much fun.

If only the junta had been half so kind.

'Dear Sir' wouldn't have been half so memorable".

She said she had been half ready to believe Mr Modi had a secret wife.

Eight of the first fourteen Presidents were Episcopalians, as have been half of the Chief Justices.

Without her I don't think Hortense would have been half as good as she was".

It would not have been half as memorable a year as it was without them.