Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Annexation showed that the English government had much more power to take action outside Europe than it had possessed in the first half of the century . |
| 2 | The returns also show how far those surnames which are peculiarly local in origin had ramified by the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 3 | Alexander I had decided in the second half of 1825 that the international problems which derived from the conflict between Greeks and Turks could not be resolved by the Concert of Europe . |
| 4 | But it warned that trading conditions had deteriorated in the second half of last year . |
| 5 | The windmill was sited near the school , but it had disappeared by the second half of the 18th century . |
| 6 | Dowling , in fact , showed great composure under pressure and Farnham were able to regain the defensive security that Cranleigh — chiefly through the pace of Roger Carpenter — had undermined in the first half . |
| 7 | The expansion of learning , which had started in the second half of the fifteenth century , now began to attract Royal attention . |
| 8 | The form that literary studies had taken during the second half of the nineteenth century , positivism , was , as we saw in the Introduction , largely based on the genetic approach ; critics , or rather scholars , concentrated their energies on uncovering the sources and genesis of particular works , and the role of biography , history and history of ideas in these genetic studies obviously reduced the importance of literature itself in literary scholarship . |
| 9 | Well Charlton had to improve in the second half , and they did ; they got more men into mid-field , and United began to run out of a little bit of steam . |
| 10 | The Fund 's 1990 edition of Primary Commodities : Market Developments and Outlook confirmed that non-fuel commodity prices had declined in the second half of 1989 . |
| 11 | What they allowed themselves to find had to fit logically with the knowledge about sewers they had acquired in the first half of the lesson . |