He spent the first half of his life in search of a stable identity.
He spent the first half of his life as a near-invalid, ill and frail and certain he was doomed to an early death, just like Shelley.
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Whereas the Candide-like picaresque of the first half persuasively evokes life under brutal totalitarianism, the identity-switching and intrigue of the second part seem to originate in little more than the need to spin a yarn.
Weighing in at almost 1, 000 pages, but taking its subject only up to the age of 36, the book shows by its sheer length how much incident, complexity and controversy are crowded into the first half of his long life.
For at least the first half of Israel's life the Zionist project building a state, defending the borders, gathering in the exiles created a strong feeling of national cohesion.
Defences were always likely to be stretched in the energy-sapping conditions and the Leeds tryline lived a charmed life for much of the first half.
Whereas the Candide-like picaresque of the first half with its absurd but fully plausible turns of the screw persuasively evokes life under brutal totalitarianism, the identity-switching and intrigue of the second part seem to originate in little more than the need to spin a yarn.
As is true for most of us who grew up in the latter half of the twentieth century, the first twenty-two years of my life seemed to revolve around an unending series of tests designed to rank me versus my peer group.
For example, in its fourth amended registration statement, filed with the SEC in October of 2011, Zynga noted that during the first half of last year it estimated the blended average paying player life for a game as 15 months, down from 19 months a year earlier.
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He spends the first half of the book justifying his redefinition of life in a lengthy narrative that combines personal memoir, Zen-like musings and scientific explanations.
Let me just assure you that first of all I have spent half of my adult life in the public sector in government in the United States and politics and the other half of my adult life in academe in the United States as a professor.
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According to new research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, for the first time more than half (53%) of Americans age 65 or older now use the Internet or e-mail.
The contest really came to life in the closing stages of the opening half, with Cech first denying Saha and then shortly afterwards saving the Frenchman's penalty after Carvalho's foul on the impressive Landon Donovan.
One of the first things that Physics students learn when they study radioactivity is the idea of the half-life.
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For instance, the American Association of Pediatrics recently changed its recommendations for the treatment of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a potentially deadly respiratory infection that afflicts half of all infants during their first year of life and almost all by the end of year two.
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Half of patients with the condition do not survive past the first week of life, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Its network of 14, 000 agents have made Allianz No. 1 in Germany's traditional life insurance market, with Euro4.2 billion in gross premiums written in Germany in the first half of 2000.
Americans are getting married later than ever (the average age of first marriage for men is twenty-eight), and bailing on domestic life with alacrity (half of modern unions are expected to end in divorce).
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