Sentence examples for manage half from inspiring English sources

Who hires a laborer who can manage half a job?

These days, I can't manage half a bottle of wine at lunchtime - I'd go to sleep in the afternoon.

"Without any congressional changes, we can manage half of that shortfall," Joseph Corbett, the chief financial officer of the service, said in an interview.

I can manage half a bottle and perhaps, at a push, a glass of something else at the start or finish (but not both).

One day, after a few exploratory conversations, he leaned across a table at the Coffee Connection and asked the 27-year-old Cramer to manage half a million dollars.

Lithium-ion batteries, today's best, can manage half that, but even the most optimistic estimates suggest that only a 30% improvement could be squeezed out of such batteries.But there may be an alternative.

I am not a very good liar, but can manage half-truths.

She found work in the steeplechase yards of Jonathan Sheppard and Jack Fisher, doing the same jobs – the grooming, the mucking out, the riding – as those much older than her, more robust than her 99lb sapling frame; people physically equipped to manage half-ton racehorses.

The atomization presented here makes that final moment of crossing the threshold of the loo door all the more moving: despite their squabbles, they manage, half-cocked, to approach the stage as one.

It only managed half that number.

I managed half an hour and then doodled.