Sentence examples for started half from inspiring English sources

"Since I started, half of the publishers in the U.S. have folded.

"The theatre started half full, but, by the end of the residency, it was oversubscribed and people sat in the stairs," Amstell told me.

On the pitching side, which he wanted to stock with people who could throw strikes, O'Dowd shed pitchers who started half of the team's games last season.

Perhaps it was the way the rain and the languages stopped and started — half of the questions came from Turkish journalists, and were translated — but we have reached the point in the week where the triple-scandal convergence felt more like mud than a maelstrom.

But when she relayed that line at a community meeting, she says people laughed: "They asked me, 'How do we even get started?'" Half of all Haitians live on less than $1 per day, and goods, even food, are surprisingly expensive.

I started Half the Sky because I thought I saw a simple solution to the devastating consequences of children living without love.

If a glass started half-full, however, neither its shape nor its contents mattered.

Although he had started half-hearted negotiations with Austria, he broke them off after the French victory at Lützen (May 1813).

Even when I started half-heartedly to use iCal, Apple's personal-calendar program for the Mac, I lugged around the Filofax in case I needed — I don't know — the address book?

*** By 8 20 one morning in mid-March, a mostly female crowd attending a women's leadership conference at Omaha's Qwest Center knew that Suze Orman was going to start speaking in a few minutes, and dozens of them started half-running across the conference room.

Matt and I were so delighted by our baby that we started half-seriously mulling a second.