Sentence examples for usual half from inspiring English sources

Advertising is by nature a perky business but every four years our glass becomes three quarters full rather than the usual half.

Mr. Turnbull dissolved both houses of Parliament in May, calling a double dissolution election, in which all Senate seats were open for a vote, instead of the usual half.

The Ormiston Academies Trust has said it has never been given advance warning of Ofsted inspections beyond the usual half day.

It's picking up the slack and carrying all of the weight, instead of just its usual half share.

Instead of the usual half paragraph, Tom wrote me a 30-page letter, which began, "Blake, there's a lot of good stuff here, but I didn't come to praise you".

Then it was time for the show, which, thanks to excellent communist organization, was only delayed by about 15 minutes instead of the usual half an hour at the rest of the LFW shows.

Mr. Barak sat through the lecture, making a few notes, with his usual half-smile.

Even the extras had an air of dire purpose; there was none of the usual half-hearted milling around.

The difference is that he's clean-shaven, she decides, rather than sporting his usual half-grown stubble.

Mr. Adjaye has also designed bars and restaurants that have far surpassed the usual half-life of trendy nightspots.

At fifty pages, Iannucci's scripts were twice the length of the usual half-hour sitcom, and his rough cuts were an hour long.