Sentence examples for mainly half from inspiring English sources

The choice may look like a box of bonbons – it is – but it's fascinating as a swift if slightly jerky gallop through performance styles and big stars of the past (mainly) half century.

My 18th-floor "Hip Room," notable for its commanding view of the neighborhood (mainly half-built high-rises and freeway interchanges), was done in a tasteful blue-white-green color scheme with lots of Scandinavian-style blond wood surfaces.

For males, our relatively high and significant within-group mean relatedness value is consistent with an age-graded social system in which related adult males (mainly half-siblings, but also father-sons and full-siblings) are members of the same group for an extended period of time.

No one knew what to expect last night, mainly because half of the audience had never heard of the White Stripes and the other half had never been to the Royal Ballet.

The planners also tried to avoid competing directly against local merchants, who mainly line half a dozen blocks along Main Street and Broadway.

Downton Abbey continues to amuse me in a similar way, mainly because half a dozen hopeless aristos looked after by a dwindling supply of babysitters saying things like, "But Mrs Patmore I must move with the times, even though me heart's heavy with our war dead and all this ceaseless servitude" sends so many people unfathomably loopy with rage.

Until recently the revamped Iraqi military and security forces consisted mainly of half-trained light infantry.

There are three points of difference between the previous studies and this study: Scobbie et al. [ 74] analyzed pith and rind jointly in each section, Hatfield et al. [ 73] mainly analyzed half-internode sections, and both evaluated single inbred lines.

Using genomic rather than pedigree-based relationships had limited impact on achieving additional genetic gain for a given rate of inbreeding in populations that consisted mainly of half-sib families (such as in dairy cattle), because the intra-class correlations among the EBV of relatives were already relatively low.

The idea of mermaids surfing sounds fishy, mainly because the half-human, half-fish creatures are considered to be strictly mythological.

For the pure systems we observe a partial separation of the HOMO(3 -LUMO density charges, with the former localized mainly on one half of the NC and the latter mainly on the other half.