Example sentences of "[conj] the second half " in BNC.
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| 1 | The biopsy tissue specimens taken from the gastric antrum or the second half of the duodenum were collected to make a pool from each subject of about 25 mg ( range 20–30 mg ) of fresh tissue . |
| 2 | Keith , the department head , is keeping quiet , but makes it plain that the second half of June is his , arguably having something to do with his secretary , Debbie , and a certain destination in Latin America . |
| 3 | A 10% fall in profits to £5m in the six months to end September is pretty bad news , but a 10% jump in sales since sterling left the ERM underpins Parker 's promise that the second half will be better . |
| 4 | The half-time score was nil-nil — yet there was our Brian promising us that the second half would be better ! |
| 5 | How did he know that the second half would be better ? |
| 6 | The feature in question is that the second half of a parallelistic couplet ( line B ) is often more precise or specific than the first half ( line A ) . |
| 7 | Note that the second half of the above series is the same as the first in reverse , but transposed . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm hoping that the second half of 1993 will be an improvement . ’ |
| 9 | Er so what I 'm looking for is to try and see that we do all we can to make sure that the second half of ninety three we take full advantage of everything that we 've got so that we do actually rapidly increase our productivity in the second half of the year . |
| 10 | In addition , there was a strong tendency for the remaining pauses to occur in the first half of a clause rather than the second half . |
| 11 | I thought the first half was funnier than the second half . |
| 12 | It could perhaps be said that Miss Cotrubas came truly into her own with the operatic excerpts that provided the second half of her programme . |
| 13 | BP has excellent potential but given uncertainty over first-half earnings any recovery will have to wait until the second half . |
| 14 | Not until the second half did Saints show any of their best style and even when it came it was never sustained . |
| 15 | On this point they have much in common with travellers from the past : the word ‘ travel ’ comes from ‘ travail ’ and until the second half of the nineteenth century travel was such hard and dangerous work that few people contemplated it . |
| 16 | However , Merrow who had already been relegated , put up a spirited display and it was not until the second half that Haslemere gained any real control . |
| 17 | It was not until the second half of the eighteenth century that any systematic excavation of an early Anglo-Saxon site , a cemetery , took place . |
| 18 | The market research group reckons it wo n't be until the second half of next year that Unix will achieve the degree of functionality needed to match proprietary systems as viable , enterprise-wide server platform , ESP . |
| 19 | It was not until the second half of the nineteenth century that houses for the rural working class really began to improve . |
| 20 | As a tort , however , it was little developed until the second half of the nineteenth century and the law remained obscure until the decision of the House of Lords in Crofter Hand-Woven Harris Tweed Co . |
| 21 | All such activities paid dividends in the sense that , until the second half of the seventies , there was almost no questioning of the Shah 's priorities or stability in the American press or congress . |
| 22 | He took time to settle and it was not until the second half that he began to make a positive contribution to the match . |
| 23 | Demand was not expected to improve until the second half of the year , despite gross capital investment ( which had risen by 5 per cent in 1989 compared with 1988 , but was down by 30 per cent compared with 1980 ) . |
| 24 | It was not until the second half of the 1950s that autarchy was definitively superseded by a firm commitment to international capitalism . |
| 25 | Until the second half of the century even the greatest powers still occasionally made use of multi-member embassies and there was still some surviving feeling that a ruler was particularly honoured by receiving a group of ambassadors rather than an individual . |
| 26 | until the second half , in the second half they got |
| 27 | the point is Liverpool spent er ninety minutes over in Italy and forty five minutes in Anfield to penetrate their defence , it was n't until the second half last night that they got anywhere near through , through , through the solid block of the defence |
| 28 | Long vacation sittings The court sat in various strengths in the first half of August and the second half of September with judges available for truly urgent matters during the remainder of the vacation . |
| 29 | The first half was in Malta and the second half in Monsummano-Terme and arrangements had been made for David to fly out there with Ken Pitt and perform ‘ When I Live My Dream ’ , one of the songs on David 's first album . |
| 30 | The novel is about a third too long , and the second half could decently have been pruned back . |