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  • It is, perhaps, quite needless to state that but onehalf remains, hence its name, the other half having been carried away by the great ice-river in the stormy time of the Glacial Period.

    DUTCH COURAGE 2010

  • No effective democracy or socio-economic balance is possible untilwe rectify gender disparities serving to effectively disenfranchise onehalf of nature.

    GENDER RECONSTITUTION AMENDMENT - Equal Representation In The Senate 2009

  • Suppose a conquering people were to stipulate that they would restore to the conquered only onehalf of their ships; then, having sawed them in two, and having thus given back the exact half, were to pretend that they had fulfilled the treaty.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • The thing that strikes you in Australia is the illimitable resources pitted against a scanty population of only four and onehalf million people.

    Glimpses of the East 1998

  • This was General Cape, and the elegant man with the banana was the onehalf man called Yiban.

    the secret sense Tan, Amy 1995

  • Stock in the Radio Corporation of America rose from a low of $85 in 1928 to a high of $549 a year later, as one and onehalf million Americans became stockholders.

    Hospitality: Past, Present and Future 1979

  • We have heard of the concentration of population in large urban centres; that more than onehalf of the inhabitants live in the capital cities; and that the combined population of Sydney and Melbourne account for more than one-third of the total.

    Australia Revisited 1956

  • Joe recognized it with incredulity.; i It was one of those utterly ungainly creations that were; built around onehalf of the inner wall of the Shed.

    Space Platform Leinster, Murray, 1896- 1953

  • I went around with one motor, and after one and onehalf laps it stopped.

    The Race for the Harmsworth Trophy 1932

  • How can it he self-contained when more than onehalf of the cotton, one-third of the copper and tobacco, one-fifth of the wheat and flour, one-eighth of the refined oil, one-quarter of the agricultural machinery, and onetenth of automobiles over there were exported in 1929?

    The World Crisis and the Outlook 1932

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