• We stop at a gap in the trees half way up a hill.

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  • It was still possible to be largely ignorant of the world in those days, particularly if you lived on an isolated farm half way up a mountain.

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  • "Normally it would take me five minutes to get there, but it would have meant going half way up to York and then coming back on myself to get there, " he said.

    BBC: A town divided 'is a town united'

  • We invited thought-leaders to come and twenty-one people came, up to half way around the world, to join together to make this global movement happen.

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  • On the way she picked up half a dozen languages and a taste for modern art, on which she spent much of her fortune.

    ECONOMIST: Mona Karff

  • And once it becomes that way, the half that have been showing up will be less and less inclined to bother.

    CNN: CEO right: Yahoo workers must show up

  • On 16 minutes, Nani was allowed to pick up the ball on the half-way line and advance unchallenged towards the penalty area before letting fly with a ferocious shot that Roy Carroll got a hand to but could not keep out of his net.

    BBC: Man Utd 4-2 Derby (4-3 agg)

  • The report, currently at its half-way stage, is likely to recommend the setting up of more self-referral centres, where women can report rapes without initial police involvement.

    BBC: Rape victim treatment 'a lottery'

  • As Bell inched his way past 50, bringing up his first half century of the series with a scythe through point, Fleming proved more expansive in pouncing on anything loose and he brought up a fluent 50 with a neat clip through midwicket that typified his innings.

    BBC: England poised for series victory

  • So my risk is way up, but the government now TAKES over half of any marginal increase.

    FORBES: The Forgotten Employer

  • As elsewhere, the book industry in Japan has realised that today's publishing, with nearly half its stock winding up as pulp, is a rotten way of doing business.

    ECONOMIST: Electronic books

  • "Launching a maps app in a half-baked way, that was a questionable decision, but making up for that so fast and making a category, it's great, " Mr. Bardin said.

    WSJ: Google Pounces on Apple Map Apology

  • Mr Millin inquired, half-joking, whether he should walk up and down in the traditional way of pipers.

    ECONOMIST: Bill Millin

  • Most people who were brought up in the past half century have been taught to live this way, by their own rules, building the world they want.

    NEWYORKER: The Disconnect

  • President BUSH: At the same time, we need to reform and modernize fuel economy standards for cars the way we did for light trucks and conserve up to eight and half billion more gallons of gasoline by 2017.

    NPR: Fact-Checking the State of the Union Speech

  • After World Peace was called for a foul on an illegal screen, denying Bryant a chance to take the final shot of the half, Bryant and World Peace barked at each other as they made their way up the court.

    NPR: Howard Leads Lakers Over Bulls 90-81

  • Chicory came up with a way to embed this software trick directly into a half-millimeter-square section of a silicon chip, making an otherwise slow-witted cell phone chip act like a genius.

    FORBES: Hardwired

  • Chicory came up with a way to embed this software trick directly into a half-millimeter-square section of a silicon chip, making an otherwise slow-witted cell phone chip behave like a genius.

    FORBES: Hardwired

  • Some women enter our ranking in the bottom half of our list corporate pioneers and politicians types who often work their way up to the top.(See Marissa Mayer and the leap she took when she made the Google- Yahoo leap and Dilma Rousseff, who debuted at No, 92 in 2010 and now ranks the No. 3 most powerful women on the globe).

    FORBES: Sara Blakely, Lena Dunham And The 'Power Women' To Watch In 2013

  • Villa came up a long way short of what they would have wanted in the second half when I think United's much greater experience of playing big matches told.

    BBC: pundits on Carling Cup final

  • Paddy McCourt, given a rare start in the Celtic line-up, weaved his way into the Rennes penalty area early in the second half but an excellent challenge by M'Vila prevented the winger getting his shot away.

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  • To round off a miserable afternoon for the Paris side, in the closing minutes Liebenberg's pass was intercepted on the half-way line, and Brew and Higgitt ran to the tryline together to ensure the ball ended up touched down in the corner for a try.

    BBC: Bristol 17-0 Stade Francais

  • We are half-way through the second dress rehearsal before Saturday's grand final and things in Athens are hotting up - and it's not just the temperature outside.

    BBC: SUNDAY 21 MAY 0925 LOCAL TIME (0725 BST)

  • In some years, imports of oil have accounted for more than half of that deficit, so one way to take a hammer to the trade deficit would be to crank up domestic production.

    FORBES: The Kind Of Energy Policy The U.S. Needs

  • More than half of the crowdsourced labor force is made up of highly educated Americans and Europeans (with Americans leading the way) and it is growing.

    FORBES: Work Without Jobs: A Trend For The Educated Elite

  • As the NBA playoffs get under way, half the league's players are done for the season, giving them more free hours to fire up their video game consoles.

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