Example sentences of "during the first half [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loads on the structure are lower during the first half of the launch and it is not unusual to exceed the placard speed for a few seconds during the initial steepening of the climb . |
| 2 | Another development during the first half of the 1980s hastened the decline in ordinary charter-train operation : the wholesale withdrawal of ageing steamheated 90mph Mk 1 coaching stock from which such trains were usually formed . |
| 3 | Infant mortality doubled in Zambia during the first half of the 1980s . |
| 4 | These earliest faces and the French versions of them , which were derived during the first half of the 16th century by type-founders such as Garamond , remain the models for most type-faces . |
| 5 | During the first half of the nineteenth century Hungary was still a feudal state . |
| 6 | Another notable resident then was the Honourable Thomas Walpole , the second son of Lord Walpole of Wotterton , Norfolk , and the younger brother of the great Sir Robert Walpole , who had been Prime Minister for twenty-two years during the first half of the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | This led the Germans to emphasise their strengths in things other than politics , especially culture ( during the first half of the 19th century ) and industry ( during the second half ) , using these to build the German nation . |
| 8 | During the first half of the 16th century , the mill passed through a number of hands before being sold by John Sandford to the Clutterbuck family , who owned and worked it until fairly late in the 18th century . |
| 9 | Chalford suffered again during the first half of the 19th century . |
| 10 | During the first half of the 19th century , there were still many small water mills working in the area around Bourton . |
| 11 | One such was that at Charfield built during the first half of the 19th century . |
| 12 | There was also a regular police force , but during the first half of the nineteenth century it was small , poorly paid , and limited largely to Colombo , Galle , and areas where there were coffee plantations . |
| 13 | Systematic crime statistics were not compiled during the first half of the nineteenth century , but there is some scattered evidence about the extent and frequency of cattle stealing during the early years of British rule . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | During the first half of the term , my diary scarcely mentions food , apart from the occasional comment on the revolting nature of some too-frequently presented dish . |
| 16 | Also shown are photographs of some of the more notable news happenings that occurred during the first half of the present century . |
| 17 | Likewise , to reduce the amount of ‘ year end bunching ’ , an individual who invests in a BES scheme during the first half of the year , can claim part of the relief against his/her previous year 's income . |
| 18 | First , there is the aristocratic theory which defines conservatism as ‘ the ideology of a specific and unique historical movement : the reaction of the feudal-aristocratic-agrarian classes to the French Revolution , liberalism , and to the rise of the bourgeoisie at the end of the eighteenth century and during the first half of the nineteenth century ’ . |
| 19 | During the first half of the 1970s all three of the most heavily urbanized regions ( South-East , North-West , West Midlands ) had population growth below the national rate , suggesting that the urban-rural dichotomy had taken over from the north-south divide as the main feature of UK population change . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | During the first half of the nineteenth century the domestic ideal and its attendant images became a vital organising factor in the development of middle-classness , and in the creation of a differentiated class identity . |
| 22 | During the first half of the nineteenth century J.M.W. Turner and John Constable took British landscape painting to the forefront of the Romantic movement . |
| 23 | South Shields , St Helens and Birkenhead all shot up quickly during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | This was used to make comma shaped charms ( magatama ) of the kind placed with burials of the Tomb Period during the first half of the first millennium A.D. both in Japan itself and in Korea . |
| 25 | Already during the first half of the second millennium B.C. Minoan smiths were fabricating gold jewellery from metal most probably imported from Egypt . |
| 26 | Aegean civilization , as this appeared during the first half of the second millennium B.C. , was sufficiently sure of its own identity to engage in traffic with the older ones of south-west Asia and the Nile Valley . |
| 27 | The availability of good roads in Central and Mediterranean Europe , during the first half of the 19th century , made possible sales contracts under which the buyer paid for the goods upon the seller 's tender of the bill of lading at the port of shipment or transhipment . |
| 28 | In fact , during the first half of the 1980s , there was virtually no distinction in growth rates between Inner and Outer London Boroughs ( Champion and Congdon , 1988b ) . |
| 29 | During the first half of the century efforts were made to extend the same technique to the various kinds of animals as well as plants , so that naturalists had access to a vast body of information about the geographical distribution of living things . |
| 30 | This is not to say that it was the consequence of the rise of Fordism ( i.e. , the changes that were taking place during the first half of the 20th century in capitalist methods of production ) . |