Sentence examples for it began half from inspiring English sources

Colombia's civil war has killed more than 220,000 and forced millions from their homes since it began half a century ago.

As I said a few weeks ago, my crush on the coast began half a century ago with summer vacations in Santa Cruz, and it grew deeper on this trip.

More than 6,000 people have been killed since the conflict began – half of them civilians and more than 1,100 of them children, according to the UN.

Aerial firing began half an hour later.

Four years after it began, nearly half of Utah's 41 school districts offer programs in which elementary school students spend half the day learning in English and half in a foreign language.

For the first time since it began almost half a century ago, the College Board's Advanced Placement program is adding four new languages: first Mandarin Chinese and Italian, and, at some point, Japanese and Russian.

In 2002 it began reserving half its places for state-school graduates, and 40% of those were for blacks and Indians.

As fall gave way to winter last year, and Lower Manhattan began to re-emerge, you began half-hearing that voice as you passed reopened boutiques and haircutters' shops.

It began with half-whispered words about strength and vulnerability and ended with what amounted to a baptism.

When Shapeways began, half the files uploaded could not be printed because of mistakes or faults.

When this event began half a century ago, there were three teams.