Sentence examples for there a half from inspiring English sources

"I got there a half hour after he'd been killed.

But by keeping the hermit North Koreans hidden away in their half of the Korean peninsula, Japan also keeps a lid on the fate of thousands of Japanese residents sweet-talked into emigrating there a half century ago.

Suzan Mazur: Aren't there a half dozen or so labs working on some type of synthetic cell right now, all with different approaches?

Take 3 color clay pieces and cut then so there a half a inch.

Lowell Thorsness was a 24-year-old Caterpillar driver there a half a century ago.

What are there, a half-million kids playing hooky today?" Dexter Filkins.

"If you have a perpetually late relative, tell your Uncle Joe to get there a half-hour early," she said.

There, a half-century ago, I.B.M. began research that would lead to the first rotating disk system for storing computer data.

But way down there, a half-mile from the end of his finger, is the shabby block where he had his first digs as an art student.

The route there, a half-hour train ride to an immigrant neighborhood on the edge of Amsterdam, deposited me in a maze of gray and beige low-rise apartment buildings.

William Helmreich, a sociologist who wrote about Weequahic in "The Enduring Community: The Jews of Newark and Metrowest," was stunned to find how potent the neighborhood's pull remains on Jews raised there a half-century ago.