• Half soccer pub, half punk rock bar, Churchill's is 100% one of the most interesting spots in the city, an establishment that straddles lines of income, race and nationality - in a lot of ways, a microcosm for Miami itself.

    BBC: Multicultural Miami

  • It was tied to a tree and was rubbing against a half-submerged rock.

    NEWYORKER: Max at Sea

  • Music is only half of what rock legends KISS are about.

    FORBES: KISS's Gene Simmons Teaming Up With Angry Birds

  • Once you plunge in you find sections that alternate between slow streams where you can beach yourself against a flat half-submerged rock, and fast currents of waterslide fun.

    BBC: The secret swimming holes of Vermont

  • It follows a major rock fall at the quarry in April 2012 that saw half a million tonnes of rock cover the quarry floor and hamper operations at the site.

    BBC: Penrhyn Quarry wins Welsh government loan help

  • An hour and a half later the group reaches "the dome, " a 60-foot-high semicylinder of rock, one half of the face a deep blue manganese, the other bridal-white calcite.

    FORBES: Cave Woman

  • Go ahead and use 'em up, I thought, as I broke into a half-run down the slippery, rock-strewn path.

    FORBES: Pain is good

  • Liverpool's Steven Gerrard drove England forward in an exciting second half, while Sol Campbell was a rock at the back.

    BBC: Rooney the shining light

  • Network shows have to appeal to a broad audience which prefers the easy humor of Two and a Half Men to the quirkiness of 30 Rock.

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  • My guide (the new guy) steered my half of the kayak directly into the huge rock at the top of the water hazard.

    WSJ: Dilbert Creator Scott Adams's Year Without Fear

  • That led to the stint as medical groupie on the Medicine Ball Caravan rock tour, his involvement in a half-baked concert film that came out in 1971 and then his first trip to India.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • "We think there's room for another marathon in Manhattan, in the spring, " said Scott Dickey, chief executive of Competitor Group, whose Rock 'n' roll marathon and half-marathon series has grown from six races in 2008 to 33 in cities around the world.

    WSJ: Hopes for a Second NYC Marathon

  • Under the cover of the Basel rules, RBS and the Rock took the kind of risks that no investor with half a brain would ever take (is it an unusual occurrence for the value of investments to fall by 2%?).

    BBC: If banks are treated as naughty kids...

  • "It wouldn't be surprising if you called us back in a year from now, or a year-and-a-half from now, and suddenly, there's a whole lot more rock acts on our charts, because everything is cyclical, " said Keith Caulfield, Billboard's associate director of charts.

    CNN: 'Nevermind,' never again?

  • At the time of the tour, Dylan had already recorded an album, half electric and half acoustic, called Bringing It All Back Home, and had released a rock and roll single called "Subterranean Homesick Blues" which pointed his work in a whole new direction.

    NPR: Dylan, the Red Dog and the Real Summer of Love

  • Well three and a half years after Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Money first tried and failed to buy Northern Rock, there is a reasonable chance that it will end up buying the bank this time.

    BBC: No chance of Northern Rock becoming building society again

  • Of course, the rider is only half of the equation, and Funnell will not be competing with her best-known horse, Supreme Rock, who is injured.

    BBC: Confident Funnell heads for Punchestown

  • The Rock - in its new slimmed down form - does not expect to trade profitably till the second half of next year.

    BBC: No chance of Northern Rock becoming building society again

  • With nearly half its production based in Japan, Toyota is clearly the most vulnerable to shake-ups, whether they rock the ground or financial markets.

    MSN: The hollowing out of Japan��s auto industry

  • The federal government, which pays for roughly half the Medicaid expenses, is supposed to get a similar proportion of the payout, though there is no rock-hard assurance that the states will hand it over.

    ECONOMIST: Everybody’s butt | The

  • Ta Moan turned out to be a sleepy site, about the size of a football field, with brown rock remains of walls that outlined one central building with some still visible decorated doorways and corridors, and half a dozen subsidiary structures.

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