Didn't Fleming know that Bond could not possibly be drinking a half bottle of Pol Roger?
We had lunch and he ordered a half bottle of a fabulous French Bordeaux.
To encourage people to drink up, he sells it by the half bottle and by the glass.
To encourage people to drink up, he sells wine by the half bottle and by the glass.
The price of petit sale (a kind of New England boiled dinner), one pear, and a half bottle of Bordeaux is seven hundred francs.
For one, MacLean noted the strong by-the-glass selection, and both she and Colman pointed out the high number of selections by the half bottle--which cost half as much, of course.
We found out later that Arthur McKechnie mostly just got dressed up in his odd clothes and sat alone in a Chinese restaurant with a half bottle of white wine and a plate of crispy fried duck.
His only possessions were half a bottle of cola and two lighters.
That's another one of one of my half-bottle beefs: They're marked up a lot, sometimes even more than a full bottle of wine.
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The market promises to be huge: The average person in China drinks less than half a bottle each year, according to Chinese government statistics.
Hughes sped from San Francisco to Livermore ("a 45-minute drive that took 20 that day, " he recalls) and left a half-bottle sample with the receptionist.
But what do real wine buyers like about the half-bottle size?
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The one exception I'd grant is the half-bottle of Mumm that Cher bought in "Moonstruck" and opened when she announced that she was marrying Nicolas Cage.
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One witness, a 17-year-old girl who went to a party with the alleged victim, said she and the girl shared a half a bottle of vodka, which they each poured into a flavored crushed ice drink.
My last half-bottle problem is scarcity.
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And they offer just about anything else one might need, from a card that outlines spots of interest in the panoramic vista (which includes Angel and Alcatraz islands and the glittering San Francisco skyline) to a half-bottle of luscious Clos du Val cabernet sauvignon.
There was a half-empty bottle of wine next to them on the floor.
To further trim raw material costs, which eat up 50% of revenue, he worked with engineers to decrease the standard half-liter bottle weight from 23 grams to 12 grams (nearest competitor Crystal Geyser has one weighing 14 grams).
Police found an empty alcohol container and a half empty blueberry moonshine bottle in his backpack.
By Boisset's assessment, the carbon footprint associated with a plastic wine bottle is roughly half that of a glass one, never mind the fact that plastic is also cheaper.
Schmidt is focused on protecting his market in Japan, where half of his 40, 000- bottle-a-year production goes.
The new bottle has a contoured bottom half that appears easier to grip, and the wraparound label is shorter so that more of the drink is exposed.
But the Rugby Football League may look into circumstances surrounding his first miss on the stroke of half-time, as it appeared a plastic drinks bottle was aimed at him as he took the conversion.
Ivory Coast international Drogba had been spotted with a hot-water bottle as he watched from the dugout during the opening half but it did not take him long to get warmed-up.
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