Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [prep] [art] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The two sides agreed to hold the next round of talks in Beijing in the first half of 1992 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Infant mortality doubled in Zambia during the first half of the 1980s . |
| 9 | 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 . |