Example sentences of "in [noun] [prep] the first half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite an intensification of fighting in Kashmir in the first half of 1990 talks with India continued , with the fourth round completed in April 1991 . |
| 2 | An increase in imports in the first half of 1992 caused the motor industry 's trade deficit to more than double to £1.37bn ( v £617m ) . |
| 3 | A resilient alliance between Protestant theology and Aristotelian philosophy , which had established itself in different parts of Europe , remained particularly strong in Scotland during the first half of the seventeenth century . |
| 4 | So whereas he had treated with the pro-English party in Scotland in the first half of 1543 , in 1544 it was the pro-French faction which was uppermost in his mind . |
| 5 | Stanley kept in contention in the first half of the game but came to grief on the 11th end when they dropped a five . |
| 6 | In his early works he was very concerned with the problem of ‘ alienation ’ and the ‘ essence of man ’ and even in Capital it is impossible not to be moved in reading his account of conditions in England during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | The two sides agreed to hold the next round of talks in Beijing in the first half of 1992 . |
| 8 | If this were the case , the drop in population in the first half of the period could have been deeper and the subsequent recovery slower than existing replacement figures suggest . |
| 9 | It was impossible to discuss the idea of Arab nationalism without mentioning Palestine , because the Arab political awakening occurred in the very years of Zionist settlement in Palestine in the first half of this century . |
| 10 | Most economists believe that the tighter squeeze on the economy would now lead to a more rapid deceleration in inflation in the first half of next year than had been expected before yesterday 's base rate increase . |
| 11 | The US Secretary of State James Baker and Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady were highly successful in efforts in the first half of September to reinforce the anti-Iraqi coalition by securing large-scale financial commitments , notably from Japan and West Germany , while Saudi Arabia and other smaller Gulf sheikhdoms contributed massively towards the cost of the US mobilization of forces . |
| 12 | Wednesday were twice in trouble in the first half — Woods doing well to tip over a Marcus Marin shot , and Nigel Worthington clearing a Witeczek header off the line . |
| 13 | Every qualified projection of climate change and population growth indicates a crisis which will grow in seriousness through the first half of the twenty-first century . |
| 14 | After the reduction in profits in the first half of the year , profits in the second half improved . |
| 15 | Many if not most of them had doubled in size during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | In view of the rapid drop in morale in the first half of 1944 — with a short interruption in the first half of June — and the evidently growing unpopularity of the Nazi regime , the registered popular response to news of the plot against Hitler appears surprising . |
| 17 | The hiatus between North and South is most directly shown in terms of trends in employment over the first half of the 1980s . |
| 18 | Use of the jufti knot was rife in Persia in the first half of this century , but the practice is less common in contemporary rugs . |
| 19 | The dominant approaches in psychology in the first half of this century were summarised by Kammerer in 1940 as follows : Allen and Pearson ( 1928 ) had concluded , on the basis of case studies , that : Whilst the Adlerian Rudolf Dreikurs argued in 1948 that : Since then individual psychology and its therapeutically oriented offshoots have continued in this vein , and debated the degree and nature of pathology supposed to follow , directly or indirectly , from impairment . |
| 20 | Infant mortality doubled in Zambia during the first half of the 1980s . |
| 21 | Two examples might be a book on the education of women in India in the first half of the twentieth century , and a film on the extension of the suffrage in Britain from 1830 to 1930 . |
| 22 | Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter . |
| 23 | The move seemed intended to protect domestic supply — there had been a 25 per cent fall in production in the first half of 1991 [ see p. 38492 ] . |