(adv.) In the middle; at half the distance; imperfectly; partially; as, he halfway yielded.
(a.) Equally distant from the extremes; situated at an intermediate point; midway.
Example Sentences:
(1) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(2) Inasmuch as correct rating was possible halfway through treatment, concerns about the internal validity of the double-blind strategy arise.
(3) In any halfway-awake western nation, and, to be frank, in many reaches of British national life, this would be considered an amateurish absurdity, a guarantee of eventual failure.
(4) In relation to the human class I enzyme, the amphibian protein has residue identities exactly halfway (68%) between those for the corresponding avian enzyme (74%) and the human class III enzyme (62%), suggesting an origin of the alcohol dehydrogenase classes very early in or close to the evolution of the vertebrate line.
(5) Men in a halfway-house sample had more detoxication readmissions but fewer drunkenness arrests in a 3-month follow-up period than did their matched controls; the total number of documented drunkenness episodes did not differ in the two groups.
(6) "A good game will have the expected progression at the end of each level, but it will also provide surprise rewards halfway through," says Ben Weedon, a consultant at PlayableGames, a company that carries out usability testing on new titles before they're released.
(7) 2.33pm GMT 87 min: Aguero is sent clear down the inside-right channel, albeit from the halfway line.
(8) The experience of Berkeley House, a psychiatric halfway house, is related as an example of a program that has achieved successful community tenure for its patients through the creation of an extended psychosocial kinship system.
(9) The voltage-dependent block suggests that 9-aminoacridine binds to a site located halfway across the membrane with a dissociation constant of 62 microM at 0 m V. 9-Aminoacridine also blocks K channels, and the block is time- and voltage-dependent.
(10) With the summer halfway done, is there anything good on the horizon?
(11) If his life unspools in the arch, neat fashion of one of his movies then the director Wes Anderson , who'll turn 45 this spring, is halfway through.
(12) Even now, more than halfway through the Cameron era, it is not yet clear that the prime minister possesses them.
(13) One of the judges, Malcolm Muggeridge, resigned halfway through because he felt most of the entries were ill-written and pornographic.
(14) Quantitative and morphological data were obtained on developing olfactory axons in the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, during late premetamorphosis (stages 48-54), prometamorphosis (stages 55-57), and halfway through metamorphic climax (stages 58-62).
(15) The creation of Albion’s second goal was more artful, even if it started with Özil being pestered into surrendering possession near halfway.
(16) The Jets have overperformed to this point, reaching the halfway stage at a respectable 4-4, when many had expected them to struggle in the wake of a tempestuous offseason.
(17) At follow-up, 10 (59%) have died (three who were scored as CR and seven who were in PR halfway through therapy), two are alive with active tumor, one relapsed and survives following bone marrow transplant, and four (three in PR and one in CR at the therapeutic halfway point) are without disease at a median of 28 months from presentation.
(18) The halfway line is a single drunken shadow across the field right now.
(19) Most will try to claim asylum in other EU countries – Germany and Sweden top the list, with the UK more than halfway down.
(20) Part of my panic was caused by the fear of being over halfway through, and part of it was realising that all the plans I had would remain unfulfilled.
Somewhat
Definition:
(n.) More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
(n.) A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
(adv.) In some degree or measure; a little.
Example Sentences:
(1) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(2) Neuroleptics (chlorpromazine, reserpine and haloperidol) had not such an influence, though they somewhat increased the general activity of the animals.
(3) However, the mechanism of the inhibitory action is still somewhat uncertain.
(4) Under these conditions the meiotic prophase takes place and proceeds to the dictyate phase, obeying a somewhat delayed chronology in comparison with controls in vivo.
(5) These data were in agreement with those from a previous comparative study which had a very different research design and a somewhat different type of schizophrenic population.
(6) The elongation of helix III with the addition of helix II at the N-terminus somewhat stabilizes the ordered structure.
(7) In presence of oxygen (air) the phototactic reaction values are somewhat lower than in its absence.
(8) Somewhat more children of both Head Start and the nursery school showed semantic mastery based on both heard and spoken identification for positions based on body-object relations (in, on, and under) than for those based on object-object relations (in fromt of, between, and in back of).
(9) Similarly, it appears that acute hydronephrosis or worsening of an existing hydronephrosis has been somewhat overlooked as a possible cause of uncertain abdominal pain during pregnancy.
(10) Somewhat surprisingly then, in view of the mechanisms in mammals, birds do not seem to use this seasonal message in the photoperiodic control of reproduction.
(11) This inhibition is counteracted by the somewhat slower increase of NE turnover resulting in normalization of LH levels.
(12) Richard now is presented, albeit somewhat inconsistently, as evil in response to social ostracism because of his ugly deformities.
(13) The analysis of the causes of hunger current in the 1970's can be summarized somewhat brutally as follows.
(14) The vascular risk profile associated with insulin appears somewhat different in apparently healthy men and women.
(15) Although differing somewhat in their responses to various biochemical and biophysical tests, all strains were assigned to the genus Flavobacterium.
(16) Simple reperfusion of the infarcted myocardium, however, does not necessarily guarantee myocardial salvage, and preliminary studies have been somewhat confusing as to its beneficial effects.
(17) In addition, the transcriptional behaviour of this tRNALeuCUG gene in various in vitro systems is described and it seems that, although the gene is transcribed in all test systems, the very A + T-rich 5'-flanking sequence of this particular gene may be somewhat inhibitory to transcription in vitro.
(18) Myelosuppressed (cyclophosphamide-pretreated) mice were somewhat more susceptible to C. perfringens as contrasted with mice that had been pretreated with either carrageenan type II or with zymosan.
(19) Children 1 to 6 months old had over twice the morbidity from diarrhea if assigned to the antimicrobial group as compared to placebo, while the toddler group (7-30 months) taking the antimicrobial had somewhat less diarrhea.
(20) Our results showed an approximately two- to threefold increase in the level of the type I cAMP-dependent protein kinase and a somewhat smaller increase in the type II kinase in extracts of the "old" IMR-90 cells (population doubling greater than 48) as compared to that of the "young" cells (PDL 22-27).