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1  over and over again, filling half a page.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  Litre and half litre--that's all we serve.
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3  But there's plenty that WOULD if they got half a chance.
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4  She broke it in half and gave one of the pieces to Winston.
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5  As he entered the din of voices dropped to about half its volume.
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6  The whole incident could not have taken as much as half a minute.
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7  Almost immediately they fell asleep and slept for about half an hour.
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8  'We lived here till my wife died,' said the old man half apologetically.
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9  And then, for perhaps half a minute in all, something happened to the telescreens.
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10  You have been alive a very long time; you lived half your life before the Revolution.
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11  Winston had never been inside the Ministry of Love, nor within half a kilometre of it.
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12  He had lugged out a huge and filthy pipe which was already half full of charred tobacco.
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13  The lump of glass in his pocket banged against his thigh at each step, and he was half minded to take it out and throw it away.
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14  Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room.
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15  All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot.
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16  It was a half-page torn out of 'The Times' of about ten years earlier--the top half of the page, so that it included the date--and it contained a photograph of the delegates at some Party function in New York.'
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17  The plaster flaked constantly from ceilings and walls, the pipes burst in every hard frost, the roof leaked whenever there was snow, the heating system was usually running at half steam when it was not closed down altogether from motives of economy.
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