Button pearls are like a slightly flattened round pearl and can also make a necklace, but are more often used in single pendants or earrings where the back half of the pearl is covered, making it look like a larger, rounder pearl.

The NRA rules state that a half rounder is scored if half a circuit is completed by a player without being put out, or if the batter has not hit the ball but makes it all the way to the fourth base.

Coach Deon Botes has worked with the school's first team for the last decade and a half and has since then produced players such as Kruger van Wyk ( New-Zealand international test player ), Heino Kuhn ( Titans wicket keeper ) and young and upcoming all rounder Thomas Kaber.

In point of fact, this is a beige box with a bright red door, about one and a half feet square and hung from the wall about six feet from the door to Wisman's right.

The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.

He is a parent with a child to nurture, here and now, and he is an educator who worries about the children half way round the world.

That is, we must find Saxons in East Anglia, Kent, Sussex and Hampshire in the last half of the fourth century.

Bostitch, Inc. is approximately half way through a 10-year exemption of their real estate tax.

The Chinese, North Vietnamese and North Koreans, on the other hand, feel that, militarily, Russia is strong enough to support them in the `` just wars of liberation '' they would like to embark on before long: with China attacking Formosa and the North Koreans and North Vietnamese liberating the southern half of their respective countries.

A reporter restricted to the competing propaganda statements of both sides in a major labor dispute, for instance, is unable to tell his readers half of what he knows about the causes of the dispute.

If my pass is approved, I may be a half hour.

The number of countries thus favorably situated is small, but their peoples constitute over half of the population of the underdeveloped world.

And the name Rayburn is one of the most dominant in the history of American politics for the last half century.

On the ground floor the radiation would be about half what it is outside.

I like to shear half my plants at a time, leaving one half of them to blossom while the second half is getting started on its new round of blooming.

In the second half of the Sixteenth Century, Sinan, the great architect who is the Michelangelo of the East, designed the massive buttresses that now help support the dome.

The cloth is laid on one half of the bottom at a time.

Another method of assuring a clean hole is to first drill a small pilot hole all the way through, then drill half way with the dimensional bit, turn the piece over, and finish from the other side.

Although the play does show a certain structural amateurishness ( there are eleven acts varying in length from twenty-five seconds to an hour and a half ), the statement it makes concerning the ceaseless yearning and searching of youth is profound and worthy of our attention.

Federal assistance is limited to half of the total expenditure, and the state or local districts must pay at least half.

The average annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the Sixties is still considerably below the annual rate of 1,525,000 in the three-year period from April 1947 to March 1950.

the pottery of the first half of the eighth century is commonly called Ripe Geometric.

Like about half of the 1860 - 70 poems, it is a sonnet on a conventional theme -- the unhappiness of love.

The ratio is thoroughly remarkable, because the lines are so long -- half again as long as those of Beowulf.

The specific instance I have in mind is the Afro-Asian version which has gained prominence only in this second half of the twentieth century.

Conquered by the Ottoman army in the first half of the 15th century, the region remained a part of the Ottoman Empire for nearly 500 years, during which it gained a substantial Turkish minority, especially in the religious sense of Muslim ; some of those Muslims became so through conversions.

Both were governed by both Dutch and British rulers and gained their independence in the second half of the twentieth century.

But on the next two plays, Vikings running back Oscar Reed gained only one yard on two rushes, bringing up a fourth-down-and-one with less than a minute left in the half.

Oakland gained a Super Bowl record 429 yards, including a Super Bowl record 288 yards in the first half, en route to winning Super Bowl XI.

The Redskins scored 17 unanswered points in the second half and gained a Super Bowl record 276 yards on the ground, while holding the Dolphins to just 47 offensive plays for 176 total yards, 76 of which came on a single play.

Overall, Washington gained 400 yards of offense, including a Super Bowl record 276 rushing yards, while limiting Miami to only 176, with just 34 yards in the second half.

Traditionally, most spaghetti was long, but shorter lengths gained in popularity during the latter half of the 20th century and now spaghetti is most commonly available in lengths.

Neoliberalism emphasizes the Ricardian concept of comparative advantage over theories of Import Substitution Industrialization, which had gained prominence in the first half of the 20th Century and which involved a limited use of protectionist measures.

In the east at Fox Green and the adjacent stretch of Easy Red, scattered elements of three companies were reduced to half strength by the time they gained the relative safety of the shingle, many of them having crawled the 300 yards ( 270 m ) of beach just ahead of the incoming tide.

Since 1945, the " album format " gained popularity, a book-like format about half the former size.

Perennial discussions and attempts to separate the West half from the East gained little support during the twentieth century because of the perception that less prosperous West is subsidised by the East from which it would secede, leaving it worse rather than better-off, and giving adjoining counties little reason to wish to annex the West.

The couple had no prenuptial agreement and the couple would be entitled to half of all assets gained during the marriage under California law, with Witherspoon's being the more significant.

The blockade was caused, in part, by early local elections of October 1946 in which the Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( SED ) was rejected in favor of the Social Democratic Party, which had gained two and a half times more votes than the SED.

* The fasse: the first card turned up by the tallière, by which he gained half the value of the money laid upon every card of that sort by the punters or players.

* Fasse-The first card turned up by the Banker, by which he gained half the value of the money laid upon every card of that sort by the punters or players.

The semi-script philosophy gained popularity in Italy in the first half of the 20th century with three different systems created by Cima, Meschini, and Mosciaro.

The Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995, including the Village Hall ( Bank of Grand Cane ) which gained National Register status earlier in 1988. The Historic District Status is important, as it recognizes the fact that the exterior of the buildings in this short block a half have remained much the same as when they were built around the turn-of-the-century.

The highly lucrative cloth trade gained Mechelen wealth and power during the Late Middle Ages and it even became the capital of the Low Countries ( very roughly the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg ) in the first half of the 16th century under Archduchess Margaret of Austria.

Birtwistle gained notoriety in 1995 when Panic was premièred on a live BBC television broadcast, in a prominent and unusual setting, on the second half of the Last Night of the Proms, which traditionally features mainstream, popular and patriotic music.

Gradually, and with Allied support, Venizelos gained control of half the country-significantly, most of the " New Lands " won during the Balkan Wars.

Following the First Javanese War of Succession between Amangkurat III and his uncle, Pangeran Puger, the Dutch gained control of the eastern half of Madura in 1705.

In the latter half of the 20th century " fynbos " gained currency as the term for the distinctive vegetation of the southwestern Cape.

In the second half of 19th century, Serbia gained statehood as the Kingdom of Serbia.