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Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was.
Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.
Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.
It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.
Wellington Webb was one of the most significant mayors of the latter half of the 20th century. His natural political instincts are almost unrivaled.
Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.
U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.
When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't even name half the new groups.
I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.
Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into international terrorism. Of that total, over half were convicted as a result of their actions.
And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find.
Since September 11th, federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half of them have been convicted.
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.
At 41 and a half weeks pregnant, I started to have second thoughts about becoming a mother.
That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world.
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
I've had over a dozen and a half novels published since late 1994 when my first novel, 'Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls' came out.
'30 for 30s' are amazing. They're little documentaries and can be anywhere from half an hour to an hour-and-a-half - great sports stories.
I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.
I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.
I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes of the series with this preface.
No one could have predicted on day one of rehearsals, that a year and a half later we would have shot a film and all be living in New York. It was surreal.
I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is.
The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that in 2016, the corporate income tax raised $300 billion in revenue, while what it called 'targeted subsidies' cost about $270 billion. In other words, Congress could eliminate the subsidies and cut the corporate rate nearly in half without any significant loss in revenue.
I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly.
I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
There's no need to live in L.A. Half of Hollywood's films are shot in London, anyway.
Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.
The time necessary for the disappearance of half the atoms, called the half-life, is a fundamental characteristic of each radio-element; according to the substance, the value of the half-life varies between a fraction of a second and millions of years.
I coached Afghanistan for seven months. Out of those, I spent five and a half away from home.
It would take me 10 lifetimes to achieve even half of what Wilberforce achieved.
Historically, the 19th century is defined by annexations and internal turmoil. For instance, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 gave more than half of Mexican territory to the United States.
The fact is that most 'Irish-Americans', in spite of dropping the word 'Irish' into half of all sentences, couldn't find Europe on an atlas, let alone Ireland.
Most Americans and other Westerners claim to have read all or part of the Bible. However, when asked to identify even four books of the Bible or four of Jesus' disciples or four of the Ten Commandments, fewer than half even attempt to respond and fewer than one in ten respond correctly.
I once belonged to a health club, where it cost me £2,000 a year to amble on a treadmill for half an hour a week and sit and read Grazia in the cooling-off area.
I work out two, two and a half hours a day. For 'Immortals,' it was body-weight stuff: crunches, pullups, and martial arts-based cardio.
If you don't finish half of the races, you are not going to have a very good season.
My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.
I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.
I really don't despise anyone. But there is a list of a half dozen people I would prefer never to hear from or see again.
Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.
During my four years as treasurer, we restructured our pension system, cutting the state's unfunded liability almost by half and putting our retirement system on stronger footing.
I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.
My priority is possession. Attack, get a lot of players in the opposition half, take risks.
We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the gear up and we did two tracks. A month later we found out it was selling thirty thousand copies a day.
To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.
People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If we combine both, intelligently, however, according to our means, we give wisely and well.
I can tan quickly. What takes people hours to do, I can tan in half an hour.
It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do.
We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.
Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.
I starved and slept on park benches. I wrapped myself in the pages of my manuscript to keep warm. For two and a half years I took odd jobs; nothing was going to deter me.
There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
Throughout my career, especially the second half of my career, I was always nerdy or anal when it came to how I prepared for my matches.
If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.
During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half of our members come from just five of those groups and that is very narrow - too narrow.
I normally hit the gym five times a week. I tend to do half an hour of cardio - on the treadmill or a spin class - then head for the weights. I do a lot of core work, obviously!
About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.
Once I became interested in China, I flew to Beijing in 1996 to spend half a year studying Mandarin. The city stunned me.
The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
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