| 1 | For much of my life I had little occasion to pay attention to eels. | |
| 2 | For example, say you use half of your life savings to start a business. | |
| 3 | He made a wrong decision, so that half of his lifetime was wasted. | |
| 4 | Half a lifetime of involvement with this process has taught me how much authorship matters. | |
| 5 | The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. |