How To Use Last half In A Sentence
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The striker was unleashed from the bench for the last half-hour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Over the course of the last half century, more or less since the discovery of the Australopithecine hominid fossils in East Africa, which confirmed that human ancestry stretches back millions of years, there have been two general views of human evolution-the unilineal on the one hand and the multilineal or branching view on the other.
Undefined
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They have, despite occasional protestations to the contrary, achieved remarkable successes politically, economically and socially over the last half century so that the siren song of premillennialism no longer has the same appeal it once did.
Randall Balmer: Pavlovian Premillennialism
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Community care legislation has grown piecemeal though numerous statutes over the last half century.
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Indeed very few presidents in the last half century have accomplished much in the way of substantial policy change.
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The life expectancy of the average male has already increased by 10 years in the last half century.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a negative currency exchange adjustment totalling €84 million in the last half-year.
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In the last half-a-year, the number of visitors here has almost doubled while the ‘take’ has dropped to a trickle.
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In sum, while religion did not create or encourage the feminist revolution of the last half century, neither did religion do much to forestall it, even among the most fervent opponents of the near-simultaneous revolution in sexual morality.
American Grace
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Not one to let his prey get away, Jason gives chase right into the city also and for the last half an hour of the film, confronts the survivors in the streets of the Big Apple, finally giving the title Jason Takes Manhattan some worth.
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
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Early indications are good: sales were up 5 per cent in the last half-year at its smaller convenience stores, but trading was down at the superstores.
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I was annoyed by hecklers during the last half of my speech.
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The last half of the sentence was said with a rage so great that the room shook violently, nearly throwing everyone off their balance.
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During World War II the status of nickel metal as a strategic war material resulted in nickels being minted with a copper, manganese, and silver composition, the first time silver had been used in a five-cent piece since the last half dime was minted in 1873.
Jefferson Nickel, 1938-2003 : Coin Guide
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I was annoyed by hecklers during the last half of my speech.
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A linear compression rate through the first half of the suspension travel and then a slightly rising rate for the last half results in a long, smooth ride that sucks up everything from washboard to 50-foot road gaps.
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But, here, amazingly, Wolf, we still have power, our cell phones still working, although we must say, on the skylight of what I would call the colonnade, they have been crashing within the last half-hour.
CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2005
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The study's lead authors, World Bank economists Indermit Gill and Martin Raiser, conclude that the Continent's basic growth model of the last half-century is seriously amiss, and that it will take more than well-meaning summitry to fix it.
Why Europe Isn't Growing
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Indeed, I posted before how the Blue Chip forecast for GDP growth in Q4 09 kept going up throughout the last half of 2009, and still ended up undershooting in the final January report before the release.
Matthew Yglesias » The Soon-to-Change Unemployment Narrative
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In the last half-hour of the movie the plot rapidly self-destructs.
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He told me the reason, — the battels for the last half-year had not been repaid; and he urged his own unwillingness to advance the money.
An Autobiography
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The tick up in non-performing loans in the last half year was modest - more modest, indeed, than it has been for some of Anglo's critics.
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Occasionally golden fulvous and sometimes dusky black above, paler beneath; membranes dusky brown; interfemoral membrane narrow, enclosing the tail except the last half joint (about 2-10ths of an inch), which is free.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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For example, the addition of a stem carries no essential meaning that requires a minim to last half as long as a semibreve, but convention dictates it.
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Sampson mauled Johnson the entire last half of the second round and the corner threw in the towel at the bell for round three.
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But we have no time to dwell upon our personal fascinations, or to speculate upon the cause of their increase within the last half hour; no eyes have we save for that Lucullian _salmi_ steaming before us; and, like ourselves, all around us are absorbed in absorbing.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
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The last half an hour is a meditation at the sacred samadhi of Sadhu Vaswani.
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In Melbourne there have been twenty four gangland killings, the last half-dozen amid the general public.
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He said it as though it was a little dictum that he lived by, and indeed for the last half-hour he had.
Bomber
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As the last half of the serial goes into publication, you'll see some examination of the underpinnings of these characters.
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Over the last half-century, the number of women in the workplace has tripled.
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I was doing a large amount of photocopying in the last half of my day at the software company, and the photocopier ran out of toner.
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In the last half-hour of the movie the plot rapidly self-destructs.
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Over the last half-million years or so, warm interglacial periods have been much shorter than the cold glaciations, lasting on average only 10,000 years.
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While several of the powers that would make up the Typhon Pact had begun discussing an alliance more than a year ago, it had only been within the last half-year that a general, albeit still unfinalized and still unratified, agreement had been reached among five of them; the sixth, the Tzenkethi Coalition, had only recently decided to join.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
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He came on for the last half-hour yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, the Gigg Lane men enjoyed the lion's share of play for the first 60 minutes and only let it slip after making wholesale changes for the last half hour.
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First half mostly downhill, last half uphill.
The Sun
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But with the sevenfold expansion in the world economy over the last half-century, failing to address these market shortcomings and the economic distortions they create will lead to economic decline.
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Nine million children lack health coverage; more than 13 million children live in poverty; and a cradle to prison pipeline threatens to resegregate America and undermine the hard earned progress of the last half century.
Marian Wright Edelman: CDF's 35th Anniversary: Looking Back, Looking Forward
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The way the main character re-acted to the twist, or should I say did'nt re-act by barely questioning it and accepting it made the last half of the film almost unbearable for me to sit through.
Video Interview With Moon Director Duncan Jones | /Film
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The first half of the Twentieth Century was a time of tremendous change; the last half was a time of fast food and slow travel.
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I have just spent the last half an hour assessing my finances and, whether I am feeling spendy or otherwise, I am on bread and water rations from this point on.
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Have you ever been in the stands at a race meeting when ‘your’ horse is neck and neck on that last half furlong?
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Though Jamie Linden's screenplay, based on a Nicholas Sparks novel, piles on the melodrama (there's an awful lot going on in the background of John and Savannah's rather simple love affair), "Dear John" works fairly well before succumbing to overplotting and over - earnestness in its last half-hour.
The Seattle Times
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For the better part of the last half century, urbanists, planners, and environmentalists have railed against suburbia, and the dreaded trend of cities to ‘sprawl’ outward from the old city core.
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David Reynolds does not seek a radical new reading of the last half-century and there are no major revelations.
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The last half of each run was then combined to produce an overall set of 50,000 points.
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This game was about the last half-hour with 11 players playing unbelievable and winning.
The Sun
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In the course of the last half hour the sheep have been efficiently caught by Dr Biswell, and I have fired a nasty looking white gloop down their dear little throats with a syringe.
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This kind of teen, the one that wedged itself into the space between childhood and adulthood and became a monster, is a creature of the last half-century.
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For the last half-minute a sparrowhawk had been hovering over a clump of last year's dead weeds.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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In Melbourne there have been twenty four gangland killings, the last half-dozen amid the general public.
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In the last half of the twentieth century, astronomers made enormous progress in understanding cosmology.
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For the last half-minute a sparrowhawk had been hovering over a clump of last year's dead weeds.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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Likewise, despite the metric unit of packaging being in force for the last half-century, some companies use metric-convertibles of old foot-pound-second units to pack medicines.
The Hindu - Front Page
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The last half-hour was a thriller.
The Sun
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Indeed very few presidents in the last half century have accomplished much in the way of substantial policy change.
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As in Updike's Rabbit novels, Villages provides, on a smaller scale, a breezy anatomization of American manners and mores over the last half-century.
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But this second implication - that Bryant presently believes that she consented is contradicted by the last half of the sentence I recognize now that she did not ... view this incident the same way I did ....
Balkinization
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German Stefan Zoll livened up proceedings for the last half-hour with a few fancy turns and swivels but his remarkable failure to pass did little to aid Pickering's quest for a goal.
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And in the last half-hour of that day's trading, one institutional investor dumped more than one million shares.
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Although they held out until halftime, they conceded three more strikes in the last half-hour.
The Sun
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Stir the carrots and porcini mushrooms into the casserole for the last half hour.
The Sun
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This was highlighted during a fantastic duet during the last half of the show; both instruments played for several minutes in complete synch with each other.
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The retrospective exhibition will include the artist's earliest work as well as his last projects - photographs that span the last half of the twentieth century.
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Many there are now convinced of what they have lost in the last half a century due to purposeless confrontation.
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Melrose, however, will be not be pleased with themselves for allowing Aberdeen to score four tries in the last half-hour after having built a 34-0 lead.
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One of the key insights of the last half-century is that by these measures, complexity arises remarkably quickly.
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Because the Billboard Top 25 tends to "really de-emphasize the last half of the year," Mr. Roseman based the 2011 "United States of Pop" recording, also titled "World Goes Boom," on weekly charts, to account for late-breaking hits.
Messages in 2011's Music
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The writings in the last half of the century have provided a consistent matrifocal perspective.
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The gorgeously mounted show by English street artist D*Face is fuel injected with Pop vernacular while kidnapping some Pop masters of the last half century with prankish lo- to mid-brow witticism.
Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington: D*Face 'Going Nowhere Fast' In Los Angeles
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The wimp-baiting from the right has gotten us into the two worst foreign policy debacles of the last half century and we have to put a stop to it.
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It contains his personal recollections of some of the exciting developments in transition metal organometallic chemistry over the last half-century to which he contributed.
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Impressive, holding back one or two surprises to reward you for staying awake till the last half-hour.
Times, Sunday Times
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The life expectancy of the average male has already increased by 10 years in the last half century.
Times, Sunday Times
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The difficulty of squeezing or pouring out the last half of a bottle of ketchup may soon be consigned to the annals of kitchen history.
Times, Sunday Times
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The rupee climbed in the last half hour of trade on Friday, rising from an intra-day one-week low, as banks unwinded long dollar positions on speculation RBI may raise rates soon.
The Economic Times
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Lay a butter paper or loose sheet of foil on top and bake for about 1 hour, removing the butter paper or foil for the last half hour to brown and crisp.
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This has no relevance to the movie, but it's more interesting than anything that happens for the last half hour of the runtime.
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I had my last half-yearly evaluation done today and it got me thinking - again.
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More imporantly from a citizen perspective: has anyone noted that Senate candidate Warner was the key actor in diluting one of the most significant environemntal laws of the last half-century, the limits on federallly funded roads through public parklands?
Waldo Jaquith - VQR nominated for two Ellies.
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In the last half-hour of the movie the plot rapidly self-destructs.
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In the last half of the twentieth century, the manufacture of chlorofluorocarbons for use as propellants in aerosol sprays and refrigerants has resulted in a slow mixing of these compounds with the stratosphere.
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The county council is urging all parents to start walking their children to school, even if it is just for the last half a mile to the school gate itself.
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ÂFor roughly the last half century, the Assembly has been districted to elect Democrats, whereas the Senate lines favor Republicans.
Henry J. Stern: Beware the Gerrymander
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The coffee cup still steamed, though it had sat empty for the best part of the last half hour.
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As for the last half a year, well, the amount of beverage I consumed was not as crazy as in my younger years, but still would probably zombify most people.
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For roughly the last half century, the Assembly has been districted to elect Democrats, whereas the Senate lines favor Republicans.
Henry J. Stern: Beware the Gerrymander
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Protons, neutrons, pions, and the elaborate array of other hadrons discovered in the last half-century are thought to be understood in terms of their constituent quarks and gluons.
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In the last half of the series, Carrie hooked up with a Russian artist, played, incidentally, by a famous Russian ballet dancer.
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Vladimir Girshkin suffers restlessness in varying degrees throughout the novel, except when he's hungover, which is frequently in the last half of the book.
Technology news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
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In the last half century, no congressional statute has failed this test.
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More serious is the way the last half-hour seems to lose pace, then comes to a sudden, jarring halt.
