Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] the first half " in BNC.
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| 1 | FR GROUP , the aviation and defence equipment group where Michael Cobham is the chairman , is lifting its payment to shareholders from 6.37p to 6.69p , with a 4.35p final on July 3 , after overcoming a dip in the first half to increase its profits from £21.3m to £21.4m pre-tax in 1991 . |
| 2 | Captain Ally McKay grabbed a try in the first half and in the second half a brace of tries from his wing forward partner Watson secured the winning margin . |
| 3 | In Wordsworth 's note to this section of his poem — which also deals with improved roads and canals , and proffers hope that the new processes will bring ultimate good — he compares his work with that of a poet of the first half of the eighteenth century , John Dyer : |
| 4 | Millwall were a disappointment in the first half ; they never played . |
| 5 | Leicester were quite a handful in the first half . |
| 6 | Thus a trader might be asked for his price in " American early threes " , meaning CDs issued by American banks with a maturity in the first half of the three month maturity period . |
| 7 | Naturally , as the second half of the variations is a retrograde of the first half , all the above are then reversed . |
| 8 | Sunderland had a new manager to show off … a big crowd to shout them on … and the bounce of the ball … but Swindon still came out on top … mind you when Shaun Taylor gave away a penalty in the first half … things looked a bit dodgy … |
| 9 | Bury who missed a penalty in the first half made it 3-2 … |
| 10 | United were awarded a penalty in the first half which was put high over the bar . |
| 11 | Ken Vasey did n't have to make a save in the first half , did n't really have to did n't give Charlton a chance , and even in the second half when Charlton came forward more and more , they did n't really have any chances erm one that Lee volleyed over the bar , one that was headed over the crossbar , and the chance that went in the net , so they still did n't have many chances , but erm United somehow erm construed to drop two points , and erm yes , dreadfully disappointing . |
| 12 | Inflation for the system as a whole , which had fallen to 4 per cent a year in the first half of 1972 , rose to an annual rate of 7 per cent in the first half of 1973 . |
| 13 | Two minutes into the second half , Nigel Mott repeated his move and his cross shot which brought a goal in the first half , but the ball ran just wide . |
| 14 | Following a decline in the first half of the 1980s , an upward trend to the year 2010 is now predicted , when total CO2 emissions will be 14 per cent higher than now . |