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It's half past eight.

Although rainforests make up only two percent of the earth's surface, over half the world's wild plant, animal and insect species live there.

I love trying out new things, so I always buy products as soon as they hit the store shelves. Of course, half the time I end up wishing I hadn't.

Since I installed solar panels on my house, my energy bill has been cut in half.

Half the fun of giving and receiving presents at any party is to see and talk about what everyone else brought.

Around half of middle-school students in Japan have mobile phones, but if you look at those in high school then 97% have them.

Almost half the men in Great Britain regularly give chocolate to their partner, especially for their birthday.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Globalization has gone mad: why transport Spanish cucumbers to exterminate the Northern Germans when half of them live in Mallorca? We need to rationalize all of that and adopt a more solid method of bacterial decontamination.

Now, one and a half billion more human beings can live on the earth's surface, supporting themselves by working for others.

Boeing, which builds more than half the world's commercial airliners, is understandably keen to draw attention to what can go wrong besides planes.

Humans are amphibians — half spirit and half animal.... As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Four metres of this material cost nine francs; therefore, two metres cost four and a half francs.

I sat down to translate the sentence shown on the main page into my native language, and half an hour and two dozen sentences later I had to convince myself to stop.

Which side won?

The discrepancy between the stories of the two parties involved in the accident was so great that the authorities had a hard time deciding which side was telling the truth.

Possible side effects include blurred vision and shortness of breath.

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade,—all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.

After rounding the Dragon's Tooth, the wind was on our side, and we were flying. It felt like we were running twice as fast.

The joke about the chicken crossing the road to get to the other side is an example of "anti-humor": meant to be funny because, on the surface, it is not.

Miss Nicholas swam from Dover on the English side to France in 8 hours and 58 minutes, then turned around and returned to England.

With a high, closed collar, figure-hugging cut, and large slits at either side of a straight skirt, the qipao is unique in its ability to communicate both modesty and sensuousness.

Is it true that the Pacific side of Japan is cheerful while the Sea of Japan side of Japan is more quiet?

The current imbalance between supply and demand is considered to reflect structural changes on the demand side, rather than being a cyclical phenomenon.

A 'commuting wife' is just what the name says, it's a form of marriage where the wife travels to her husband's side.

While looking at the flowers I thought suddenly that humans too had a good side. It's humans who discovered the beauty of flowers and it's also humans who can appreciate them.