half-staff

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Examples

• They took cover inside a print works to the north east of Paris, where they held a member of staff as a hostage.

• Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.

• Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.

• My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.

• You get these high-profile people that go into prison, and the staff abuse their authority.

• It is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.

• A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.

• Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."

• All changes are to be Rang either by walking them (as the term is) or else Whole-pulls, or Half-pulls.

• The Vine is a universal favorite, and rarely out of view; while it often seems to cover half the ground in sight.