• It's a major-key sound, but unlike our major keys, which have a half step between the third and fourth tones, the Lydian scale has a whole step there, and the half step between steps four and five.

    WSJ: Making Music Against the Odds | Ensembles of Afghanistan National Institute of Music

  • Five tries in an 18-minute spell early in the second half brought the Bulls a ninth successive victory and a step closer to a fifth-successive Grand Final appearance.

    BBC: Bradford 44-22 London

  • The visitors had a spring in their step and moved further ahead just after the half-hour, McGillvary taking a superb lofted pass from Brown to dart over in the corner.

    BBC: Harlequins 10-18 Huddersfield Giants

  • Nielsen took the first step a year and a half ago when it began including time-shifted viewing data, typically measured within three (termed "live plus three") or seven days ("live plus seven") of a program's original airing.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • If Martin had been on the fifth step however, the gap would only be seven-and-a-half inches wide, the court was told.

    BBC: Farmer's shot 'accurate or lucky'

  • All the evidence suggests that, despite more than decade-and-a-half of goods being labelled in both metric and imperial, the British remain defiantly out of step with their counterparts across the channel.

    BBC: Will British people ever think in metric?

  • And it would also address in one step more than half of the so-called fiscal cliff.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • It looks like they've struck a sweet spot with performance and have taken a bit step forward as they usually do in the second half of the season.

    BBC: David Coulthard column

  • Although that is only half the norm for American and European firms, it would be a useful symbolic step to improve the Japanese average of 9.5%.

    ECONOMIST: Corporate governance in Japan

  • Nearly a year and a half into the U.S. mortgage crisis, Congress has taken its most significant step in coming to the aid of beleaguered borrowers and propping up mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac .

    FORBES: Help Is On the Way

  • One step-sister has been refashioned as half of a secondary couple, and the King and Queen have been dispatched in favor of a wicked stepfather figure for the Prince.

    WSJ: Cinderella: That Flexible Fairy Tale

  • Or it may see in Sharp and its Sakai factory, from which Hon Hai will eventually take half the output, the promise of a technological step up.

    ECONOMIST: Hon Hai and Sharp

  • England took the inevitable step of moving Monye from full-back to the wing for the second half and England made a dynamic - at least compared to the first half - start.

    BBC: England 16-9 Argentina

  • But as the first half wore on Hull KR established a foothold and got their first try thanks to Galea's side-step and surge over the line.

    BBC: Bradford 8-34 Hull KR

  • "Runners usually fatigue late in the last six miles of the marathon, and when you are carrying weight it is more of a step into the unknown, but I am confident I will come in at under three hours and a half and beat the record, " said Mr Ellicock.

    BBC: London Marathon: Ex-paratrooper runs for record

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