1.   It was half a year, he thought, since she had last broached the subject of his bachelor status.

2.   Among Israelis, the second brutal shock in a week, after half a year of relative calm, drew outpourings of frustrated rage.

3.   A gun reported stolen from the business half a year before magically reappeared as the murder weapon.

4.   Although business people at one time feared a post-Olympics letdown, economists now expect only minor slowing for perhaps half a year.

5.   But Alabama state authorities said Cherokee investigators did not call them for more than half a year.

6.   But Clinton has been ahead in the polls for at least half a year.

7.   But for all the speed of his response, the painting was not completed until November, nearly half a year later.

8.   But suspicion about possible prostitution attracted the attention of federal and local law enforcement agencies at least half a year ago.

9.   But they are important pieces of evidence for the many riders convinced they are worse off than they were half a year ago.

10.   By now, half a year had elapsed since she embarked on her mission.