There were so few proper members in the badminton club that it was half-way between dead and 'on break'.

I go to the movies three or four times a month.

In the case of language, however, it is only the ability to talk and understand that we inherit genetically; the particular language or languages that we speak are passed on to us not by genetic transmission but by cultural transmission.

This movement is like a forum or platform from which feminists speak out on women's issues.