Of course, when you get into the semi-professional.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference

She, too, performed — as a semi-professional bodybuilder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Enchanted Amy] Reference

I have a friend who is a semi-professional mountain climber.    From Wordnik.com.  [how to climb Mt. Everest | Bindu Wiles] Reference

The amateur baseball-team hired a semi-professional pitcher from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Main Street] Reference

MOOS: He was sort of a semi-professional crazy content provider.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2009] Reference

I am a licenced attorney and a semi-professional political philosopher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free Speech] Reference

His beloved brother R.c. was playing semi-professional baseball in Delphos, Ohio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zane Grey, Romancing the West]

They were all semi-professional -- none of them were paid for playing at Calcutta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Violists] Reference

As a semi-professional rock expert and totally professional fan... this concerns me.    From Wordnik.com.  [No way, dude!] Reference

A semi-professional football in his 20s, McCarthy, a former linebacker, took plenty of hits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Dorfman: The War of the Sweeteners] Reference

Most of those who left were professionals or people with semi-professional or technical skills.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

A similar proportion hold professional or semi-professional jobs, and two thirds went to college.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE LOST GENERATION] Reference

By far the biggest migratory sector included professional, semi-professional and technical people.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

She's great at all sports, especially tennis - at which, she's pretty close to semi-professional level.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drop Dead Gorgeous] Reference

A rodeo of modern ranching skills, without all the semi-professional competition you see in the real rodeos.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

As a semi-professional cynic, I was happy, but stunned to see the House rise up and vote down the Paulson plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

Although he has signed this season for semi-professional side Shelbourne FC, Sibanda cannot be paid by the club.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ireland footballer faces deportation after asylum seeker bid fails] Reference

I tried to figure out what to wear before I went in the shower, and finally decided to keep it semi-professional.    From Wordnik.com.  [Touch of Evil] Reference

If you are an amateur or a semi-professional photographer, then you can probably make some money from your photos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Photo | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference

There are apparently a few others guys going to be there, some 'semi-professional' models, and I'm really nervous.    From Wordnik.com.  [eros-archer Diary Entry] Reference

The net loss of people in professional, semi-professional and technical occupations was 680, compared to 738 in 1994.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

He was influential in forming a small semi-professional league in this part of the country, and he played on it, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with John Raymond Shute, June 25, 1982. Interview B-0054-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

It has 250,000 amateur and semi-professional contributors and roughly a million pieces of content in its index, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Start-up Hires CBS, Google Veteran] Reference

However, all those engaged in professional, semi-professional, and sport hunting have been required to purchase licenses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Russian Arctic and sub-Arctic] Reference

I wasn't wearing any of the semi-professional clothes hanging in my closet, and I needed to stock up on "cute and casual.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Working Phone for a Jet-Setter] Reference

So here's some juice from the lair of the semi-professional auteur, the alternative weekly reading from the Sunday papers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Watson: The Sunday Papers] Reference

Perhaps some right-wing interest groups will fly him around the country as a semi-professional Town Hall Meeting Protester.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

The net loss of persons in professional, semi-professional and technical occupations was 882 compared with 857 during 1994.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

A few days before Anthony's death they had been together at the Lancaster Road Baths watching local semi-professional boxers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dangerous Lady]

In ten years Choralis, the semi-professional local chorus, has grown from an ensemble of three dozen to more than 100 singers.    From Wordnik.com.  [In performance: Choralis's "Elijah"] Reference

Andre, a talented semi-professional tennis player, became a motorcycle messenger to earn more money and support his new family.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jigsaw Man]

Government figures in 1977 showed vacancies for 99,000 workers in professional, semi-professional and technical grades of work.    From Wordnik.com.  [3. Non-Racial Trade Unionism in Historical Perspective] Reference

Many colleges maintain semi-professional football clubs that in some instances actually produce revenue for their institutions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roger I. Abrams: Gender Equity in a Time of Fiscal Restraint] Reference

I used to be a semi-professional drummer (translation: I got paid, but not a lot), and my band got signed for a two-CD contract.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saddam Was A Very, Very Bad Man] Reference

"The semi-professional gardeners were asking me to come up with a hybrid that has some kind of uniformity and disease resistance.".    From Wordnik.com.  [You Say Tomato. They Say Phony.] Reference

These must not have been even semi-professional mimes or somebody is lying as properly powdered white grease paint does not rub off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Anti-Immigrant Leader’s Bodyguard Reportedly Assaulted Mimes Who Were Blowing ‘Hateful Whistles’ At DC Rally] Reference

The small studio is just off a large room -- called the Band Kamp -- which hosts jam sessions of amateur and semi-professional musicians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chance encounter led to artist's slaying, Montgomery, Md., authorities say] Reference

Michael Eisner: If I was doing it in 1964 it would be user-generated content, but I have 40 years of semi-professional work in this field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare, Happy Days and Prom Queen] Reference

This was true of Jimmy Page and his fellow skiffle players and also of the Winwood brothers, whose father was a semi-professional musician.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference