Example sentences of "[coord] 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 The novel is about a third too long , and the second half could decently have been pruned back .
5 And the second half 'll be just as one-sided . ’
6 The first half is used for the traditional binning of the wines selected for the house , and the second half for the storage of dry , tinned and bottled goods .
7 In terms of military organization the Republic made considerable progress between the chaotic summer of 1936 and the second half of 1937 .
8 The young Pathan had guarded my car zealously and got my thanks and the second half of his reward .
9 Availability on the high-end 75 and 85 models will be the first half of 1993 and the second half of the year for entry-level and mid-range 15s , 35s and 65s .
10 This image may well have borne some relation to reality at one time in the first half of this century and the second half of the last , following the process of industrialization which took men out of the home to work in factories .
11 We were in one piece , we still had the phetam , we had reached our destination , no other ships had emerged from lightspeed behind us , and the second half of that huge fee was almost in our hands .
12 ‘ He took me to his hotel for dinner then spent the first half of the evening trying to get me drunk and the second half trying to get me upstairs . ’
13 The old beginning ‘ Hello songs ’ had been reinstated and were well-received and the second half seemed to take wings .
14 The attack on the camp formed a spectacular climax half way through the film , but the second half was routine melodrama by comparison .
15 It was too long and the opening was still shaky but the second half was shaping up well .
16 But the second half of the lyric moves on from this : the completion of the line looks back to what has gone before in its rhyme , but syntactically and alliteratively it moves forward to convey the perception of that very still mourning symptomatic of the inner spiritual movement of Christ 's coming .
17 The first half was evenish , but the second half was a whole load of Leeds pressure , with counter-attacks from Norwich .
18 But the second half 's Shostakovich , the G Minor Piano Quintet , was magnificent .
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