Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [prep] the second half " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resulting degree of demographic and socio-economic polarization at regional , sub-regional and local scales is the central feature of the many changes which have affected the geography of the UK in the second half of the twentieth century . |
| 2 | Even Association football has grown at the grass roots with a further 2,000 clubs affiliating to the FA in the second half of the 1970s to make up a total of almost 40,000 . |
| 3 | In the Oxford of the second half of the nineteenth century , parochial , preoccupied with spiritual and philosophical problems , the Oxford of Benjamin Jowett , Walter Pater , and Mark Pattison [ qq.v. ] , his interests and experiences must have set him apart ; he rarely figures in the histories and biographies centred on the life of the university . |
| 4 | But Zimbabwe 's example , together with the hope that new seeds might make a difference to humid parts of the continent in the first half of the 1990s ( and to the Sahel in the second half of the decade ) , at least give us something to work for . |
| 5 | Another big reshuffle could come in 18 months to two years , by which time Mr Patten could be back in Parliament and Mr Douglas Hurd , having helped lead Britain 's presidency of the EC in the second half of this year , may have decided to step down as Foreign Secretary to pursue another career . |