Half the manhours you pay for on most jobs are wasted because the job was not planned right, so the right tools were not handy at the right place at the right time, or the right materials were not delivered to the handiest spots or materials were not stacked in the right order for erection, or you bought cheap materials that took too long to fit, or your workmen had to come back twice to finish a job they could have done on one trip.

Ticket inspectors on the train line through Aberdour were known for their sing song refrain: " Half an hour, Half an hour, Half an hour to Aberdour-tickets please.

Half of the Members of the Bundestag are elected directly from 299 constituencies ( first-past-the-post system ), the other half are elected from the parties ’ Land lists in such a way as to achieve proportional representation for the total Bundestag ( if possible ).

In episode 73, season 4, entitled Working for Caligula of Two and a Half Men, the character of Berta said " I'm working for Caligula ," while picking up after Charlie who has resumed his hedonistic lifestyle after his brother Alan moved out.

* Two and a Half Men ( 2009 ) – Melissa's mom, Shelly, in the episodes " David Copperfield Slipped Me a Roofie " and " Thank God for Scoliosis.

Half an hour after the election results, the SPD chairman Franz Müntefering announced that the chancellor would clear the way for new federal elections.

Within a few days, he had designs for the HOUR and Half HOUR notes.

Novels such as " Half Life " by Shelley Jackson and " Light " by M. John Harrison have received the James Tiptree, Jr. award for incorporating themes of fantasy and sexuality.

* 2006 The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente and Half Life by Shelley Jackson ; with special recognition for Julie Phillips ' biography of James Tiptree, Jr., James Tiptree, Jr .: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon

The Half Kaddish is used to punctuate divisions within the service: for example, before Barekhu, between the Shema and the Amidah and following readings from the Torah.

Half of the island was expected to remain uninhabitable for another decade.

Half a manatee's day is spent sleeping in the water, surfacing for air regularly at intervals no greater than 20 minutes.

On March 14, 1942, the first patient was treated for streptococcal septicemia with US-made penicillin produced by Merck & Co. Half of the total supply produced at the time was used on that one patient.

Half a loaf for a bite to eat,

; Italians and Irish Fight for an Hour and a Half in the Street.

In September 2012, she will be featured in a campaign called " 30 Songs / 30 Days " to support Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a multi-platform media project inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn ’ s book.

** Full Rate, Half Rate, EFR, AMR for GSM networks

Half a dozen urban plans for Tirana prepared by consultants have included proposals on how to guide development.

Theodore " Ted "/" Half Ted " Raimi ( born December 14, 1963 ) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his roles as Lieutenant Tim O ' Neill in seaQuest DSV and Joxer the Mighty in Xena: Warrior Princess / Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

With the sound era, films like All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ) ( and its much darker German counterpart Westfront 1918 ), Howard Hawks ' Road to Glory ( 1936 ) and Grand Illusion ( 1937 ), focused on the futility of war for non-American soldiers whilst Hollywood produced American soldiers featuring in World War I comedies such as Buster Keaton's Doughboys ( 1930 ) and Wheeler & Woolsey's Half Shot at Sunrise ( 1930 ), or exciting tales of the U. S. Marine Corps putting down rebellions in Central America, China, and the Pacific Islands in films like Frank Capra's Flight ( 1930 ), The Leathernecks Have Landed ( 1936 ) and Tell it to the Marines ( 1926 film ).

Half or more of the trench is filled with " green " ( unfired ) bricks which are stacked in an open lattice pattern to allow airflow.

Half of the species know are in the great diverse Begonia group of Begoniaceae with 2 genera, and 1500 species.

Half of the spots on the 6-6 domino are colored red to make them stand out as the top ranking tiles.

Two comprehensive histories of Engelbart's laboratory and work are in What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry by John Markoff and A Heritage of Innovation: SRI's First Half Century by Donald Neilson.

Half of the country's workers are engaged in farming.

Bogart told her, " Half the world's female population would throw themselves at Frank's feet and here you are flouncing around with guys who wear capes and little ballerina slippers.

Half of the ten members are from Macau, the others from mainland China.

Half wavelength long wires or strips of conducting material, such as chaff, are very reflective but do not direct the scattered energy back toward the source.

According to the International Triathlon Union, and USA Triathlon, the main international race distances are Sprint Distance, which has a swim, cycling, run ; Intermediate ( or Standard ) distance, commonly referred to as " Olympic distance " ( swim, bike, run ; the Long Course ( swim, ride, run, such as the Half Ironman ), and Ultra Distance ( swim, ride, and a full marathon: run ); the most recognized branded Ultra Distance is the Ironman triathlon.

Such triathlons may be described as a full distance triathlon or " Half distance ", but the " Ironman " and " Iron " labels are the official property of the WTC.

" Half " jumps are now allowed.

Half of the patients with the disorder who have cosmetic surgery performed are not pleased with the aesthetic outcome.

Among the many films that have copied this formula are Under Siege ( terrorists take over a ship ), Snakes on a Plane ( poisonous snakes take over a passenger plane ), Speed, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory and Derailed ( hostages are trapped on a train ), Sudden Death ( terrorists take over an Ice Hockey stadium ), Passenger 57, Executive Decision and Air Force One ( hostages are trapped on a plane ), Con Air ( criminals take over a transport plane ), and Half Past Dead and The Rock ( criminals or terrorists take over a prison ).

* ( 1890 ) In How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis, the effects of typhus fever and smallpox on " Jewtown " are described.

Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.

New boys are now admitted only at the start of the Michaelmas Half, unless in exceptional circumstances.

Half to three-quarters of all adults are diagnosed with the disease, and about a third of the tribe's adults require regular medical treatment.

Half of these possibilities, those where the left boundary is even, correspond to the 8 types of DCT ; the other half are the 8 types of DST.

Half the army with the baggage under Hephaestion and Perdiccas, both cavalry commanders, are sent through the Khyber Pass, while Alexander leads the rest, together with his siege train, through the hills to the north.

Half of these Irish Americans were descended from Ulster people, and half were descended from the people of Connaught, Leinster and Munster.

Among these were Buck's descriptions of, The Green Bay Packers 1967 Ice Bowl, 2nd Half CBS announcing duties with Ray Scott & Frank Gifford, "( Third and Goal Quarterback sneak, Touch Down GREEN BAY!

Half of these men were inducted at Fort Pitt, while the other half assembled at Fort Union, the site of present day Lewisburg, under the command of General Andrew Lewis.

Half of these new units were mothers ’ centres, with an estimated membership of 45, 000 women, and the government claimed to have distributed 70, 000 sewing machines to these centres.

Half of these possibilities, those where the left boundary is odd, correspond to the 8 types of DST ; the other half are the 8 types of DCT.

( Half of these chapels are now held in the sports facility Allen Arena, and half are " break-out " sessions that are held in multiple places at once.

Half of these programs have been eliminated due to budget cuts in 2010.

Half an hour later, these embers enabled the fire to jump across both Highway 24, an eight-lane freeway, and Highway 13, a four-lane freeway, eventually igniting hundreds of houses in the Forest Park neighborhood on the northwest edge of the Montclair district and in the upper Rockridge Neighborhood.

Half of these gliders carried signal equipment but for much of the operation he had no contact with either the British 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem or the US 101st Airborne Division at Eindhoven.

Located in Bloomington, Illinois, Crow Creek, Illinois, Half Moon Prairie, Illinois, Eagle Creek, Illinois, and Vermillion, Indiana, these branches united under the leadership of Granville Hedrick in May 1863.

Half a century later, four of these – The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, The Palm Beach Story and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek – were chosen by the American Film Institute as being among the 100 funniest American films.

Half of these were episodes of The Rebel.

" In Cleveland, a reviewer for The Plain Dealer said: " As Rachel Carson's " Silent Spring " once catalyzed us to save our birds and better steward our earth, ' Half the Sky ' stands to become a classic, spurring us to spare impoverished women these terrors, and elevate them to turn around the future of their nations.

Half of these have already been put in digital form for easier consultation.

Half rings also exist as diacritic marks, these are characters and.

Half a century later, it is hard to know whether the greenbelt delayed the popularity of these towns as bedroom communities.

Regional accent and dialect are used in such programmes as Hancock's Half Hour, Auf Weidersehen, Pet and Red Dwarf, as these accents provide quick characterisation and social cues.

Half of these pupils from ethnic minorities are from the Black Caribbean ethnic group.

Half of these travel during the morning and afternoon peak hours.

The biographies and contributions of these mathematicians were documented in 1980 by their contemporary Kazimierz Kuratowski in his book A Half Century of Polish Mathematics: Remembrances and Reflections.

Half of these teams come from Canada and the others come from other countries.

" IBC also enumerates several " shocking implications " which would be true if the Lancet report were accurate, e. g. " Half a million death certificates were received by families which were never officially recorded as having been issued " and claims that these " extreme and improbable implications " and " utter failure of local or external agencies to notice and respond to a decimation of the adult male population in key urban areas " are some of several reasons why they doubt the study's estimates.