Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our players were magnificent in defence in the second half and we somehow managed to keep the Irish out ’ — RICHARD GACHES ( Thurrock captain ) after the shock defeat of London Irish in the Pilkington Cup third round . |
| 2 | In order to harmonize value added tax rates within the EC , VAT on items such as flowers , building land and artworks was increased ( a move expected to raise an extra F2,000 million in revenue in the second half of 1991 ) ; VAT on cars would be reduced to 18.6 per cent from Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 3 | Though the script is not precisely what Barnes , who won his first full cap eight years ago , had in mind for the closing half of a remarkable career , he welcomes the opportunity to set several records straight . |
| 4 | Stanley kept in contention in the first half of the game but came to grief on the 11th end when they dropped a five . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They twice hit back and were sufficiently in charge of the second half to have nicked the much-needed points themselves . |
| 7 | Medical care outside the hospitals grew in importance in the second half of the century , becoming more than the prerogative of the rich . |
| 8 | Did Cook achieve all this without competition , was he the only excursion agent in business in the second half of the nineteenth century ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It faces several more years of economic self-restraint , with no real easing in prospect until the second half of the 1990s . |
| 13 | Many if not most of them had doubled in size during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The hiatus between North and South is most directly shown in terms of trends in employment over the first half of the 1980s . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The six rooms on the main floor of the Academy will be devoted to : innovations in composition in the second half of the eighteenth century , through to the early work of Cotman and Girtin , with an emphasis on the importance of Alexander Cozens ; topography , spanning the entire chronological period from the Sandby brothers to Lear ; naturalism , including watercolour sketches , observations of nature , still-lifes , animal studies etc. ; later developments in composition ; atmosphere , stressing the ‘ proto-impressionist ’ nature of works by artists such as Cox and Muller ; and lastly the relationship between watercolours and oils and the role of the Old Water-Colour Society in the promotion of the medium as suitable to portray historical and literary subjects . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ] . |