Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the half " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He thought : He has acquired the mystique of the story-teller and , glancing at the ring of fire-lit and intent faces , he was suddenly reminded of his first village school , of the children clustered round Miss Douglas at three o'clock on a Friday afternoon for the half hour of story-time , and felt a pang of pain and regret for those lost days of innocence and love . |
| 2 | The journey by train from Cambridge to Lincoln was tedious , involving several changes , and on arrival I was met by the usual RAF truck for the half hour 's run into Binbrook village and from there up the steep hill to the RAF Station on its plateau above the low lying plains . |
| 3 | A statement of total recognised gains and losses , as required by FRS 3 , shows that the profit for the half year of £32.6m is boosted by currency translation differences on foreign currency net investments of £3.2m to produce total recognised gains and losses for the period of £35.8m . |
| 4 | A pre-tax profit for the half year to 30th June 1993 of $126.2m is announced today ( August 10 ) by the Scottish-based insurance group General Accident . |
| 5 | A profit of $7.6m in the second quarter ( 1992 : $39.6m loss ) produced an overall profit for the half year of $3.5m , which compares with a deficit in the same period in 1992 of $104.8m . |
| 6 | Item nine , there 's a report for the half year ending on page forty-one , Tony ? |
| 7 | And the report for the half year will go to the council as you 've heard . |
| 8 | De La Rue chairman Peter Orchard comments : ‘ This does not have a major effect on the results of the company for the half year of for the previous year , but it does have the consequence of increasing marginally our earnings per share in both periods as the result of including within ordinary activities certain items previously classified as extraordinary . ’ |