Example sentences of "[prep] [art] first half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday it announced figures for the first half of 1989 so late in the day that the London market had mostly packed up and gone home by the time the screens showed that profits had risen from Ir £109m to Ir £121m and earnings were up from 21.7p to 25.4p basic . |
| 2 | Earnings per share for the first half were reduced to 5.47p , against 7.83p last time , but the interim dividend has been held at 1.5p . |
| 3 | Figures for the first half of the year from the Building Societies Association showed that only around 54,360 people were in arrears with their mortgages . |
| 4 | The US , where Tie Rack now has 41 shops , has also been responsible for the first half loss . |
| 5 | For the first half of the last century , most European nations assumed that France would somehow try to repeat the project . |
| 6 | For the first half of the 1991 model-year ( which began on October 1st 1990 ) , Buick 's sales have risen by 6.6% , compared with an 8.8% fall in all American car sales . |
| 7 | For the first half of this century it was associated with intellectuals , of whom Einstein was the epitome . |
| 8 | OIL production by member states of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries dropped 900,000 barrels a day to 23.5m last month but remains well above the cartel 's target level of 22.9m for the first half , the International Energy Agency has said . |
| 9 | For the first half of 1946 I remained at school , where the privileged handful of us who had won our places at Oxford and Cambridge did no work , read widely , cycled to the seaside . |
| 10 | There are also a few records for January , but only two for the first half of February . |
| 11 | The budget for the first half of 1918 had been estimated at 17.6 milliard roubles expenditure , but revenue at only 2.8 milliard . |
| 12 | For the first half of the nineteenth century the evidence is sparse , but some generalizations may be made . |
| 13 | FOR the first half of the year you should have plenty of attack , although you may be on the receiving end of a show of force . |
| 14 | Insurance group Guardian Royal Exchange has broken new ground by publishing a review by auditors Price Waterhouse in its interim results statement for the first half of 1992 . |
| 15 | Insurance group Guardian Royal Exchange broke new ground by publishing a review by its auditors , also Price Waterhouse , of the interim results for the first half of 1992 ( see ACCOUNTANCY , October , p 17 ) . |
| 16 | Transworld Communications ( operator of independent radio stations ) devotes a page to an unaudited half year summary in its interim report for the first half of 1992 . |
| 17 | They believe the reported profits for the first half of 1991 may have been materially overstated , and that further publication of these results as a basis of comparison may be misleading . |
| 18 | The interim p&l account , balance sheet and cash flow statement therefore do not include comparative figures for the first half of 1991 ; the full year 1991 figures are shown , however . |
| 19 | In its interim report for the first half of 1992 , the insurance group has changed its accounting policy to reflect the total investment return — including realised and unrealised gains arising on its shareholder and general insurance funds — in its consolidated p&l account . |
| 20 | In its interim report for the first half of 1992 , the European packaging manufacturer has included the gross preference share dividends on the UK redeemable preference shares in finance charges , rather than as a distribution out of the net profits after tax and minority interests . |
| 21 | When one notes that Jaguar 's pre-tax profits for the first half of 1989 had slumped to £1.4 million , it is easy to see that a company valuation of £1.6 billion might be considered rather high . |
| 22 | HGCA figures for the first half of the 1992–93 season show Ipswich exporting ten per cent of all British wheat . |
| 23 | The company swung the axe before revealing pre-tax losses of £129 million for the first half of this year . |
| 24 | ‘ If we can keep them contained for the first half then we 've got a chance of pinching a couple of goals . ’ |
| 25 | They come round at the interval and say , ‘ Was Ruby on for the first half ? ’ and I say , ‘ Yes . ’ |
| 26 | For the first half of the nineteenth century , these goals were admirably adhered to , as the society assembled mostly printed and written matter : books , letters , manuscripts , diaries , letters and newspapers , making it one of the most distinguished libraries in the country . |
| 27 | Alpine days stay reasonably warm for the first half of the month . |
| 28 | For the first half of the meeting the division was split into two large committees to work through the agreed agenda . |
| 29 | The TE Electronics Inc manufacturing subsidiary that Tandy Corp plans to spin off , says it will take a $20m charge against results for the first half to December 31 to cover the cost of the proposed sale of its Micronic hand-held computer operation and a decision to close two small European offices of the Tandy/GRiD Europe subsidiary . |
| 30 | As regards SNA and local network convergence , for the first half of this year the company will continue with its existing 4100 series , ( used to integrate SDLC traffic onto Token Ring networks ) , the 6600 system for multiprotocol Token Ring routing , and the 6400/6800 modular system with multiprotocol routing . |