Example sentences of "of the [num ord] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | I conclude that Ford 's ‘ critical act ’ was indeed ( by and large , always by and large ) the most important of the first half of this century , and that it is , moreover , irreversible . |
| 2 | Forest had been comfortable enough for most of the first half . |
| 3 | Although Sir Campbell did not expect the strong sales growth of the first half to continue , he anticipated satisfactory results for the full year . |
| 4 | Then , in a dream-like sequence at the end of the first half , they are seen raiding the nursery at Rossillion , where they proceed to plunge their swords into a defenceless rocking-horse . |
| 5 | To their great credit , Romania looked far from demoralised on the field , driving the Scots on to the back foot for much of the first half and restricting the scoreline to 3-0 until the 39th minute . |
| 6 | Five of those minutes came at the end of the first half , allowing Hein to score the first of his morale-boosting tries for Oxford in the right corner . |
| 7 | Because of the exhaustion of the low-cost reserves , uranium prices seem bound to rise in the course of the first half of the next century ( assuming the uranium mining industry is to remain in business ) , but by how much is anyone 's guess . |
| 8 | One of the more saintly characters of the first half of the century was Mary Sherwood . |
| 9 | Two days later , on 26 July , the dowager and the queen left Linlithgow for the greater safety of Stirling , presumably an indication that , with the making of this bond , the relatively straightforward period of the first half of 1543 was over . |
| 10 | Coventry had the better of the first half , with Ndlovu and Robson demanding good saves from Seaman , while Smith had a shot blocked on the line by Winterburn . |
| 11 | The strategy of the first half of the campaign was simple — to neutralise the appalling economic news and Labour 's expected attack on health . |
| 12 | Though Park spent most of the first half pinned in their own territory , Nottingham had only two penalty goals and a Gregory dropped goal to show for their efforts . |
| 13 | Eager , it seemed , to atone for the embarrassment of Saturday 's 5-2 home defeat by Aston Villa , the London side could have scored three times in the opening nine minutes and went on to dominate the rest of the first half with an ease that pointed to only one result . |
| 14 | Annabel Arden 's production captures harrowingly the full trauma of the first half of the play , as Leontes creates a winter world of death and despair . |
| 15 | They had slightly the better of the first half but a poor pass to Sleightholme lost one chance and then Sleightholme could not touch down a useful kick by Maynard , Stabler getting there first . |
| 16 | By the end of the first half all of us had sweat pouring down our faces . |
| 17 | The difference from six months before was that The O'Neils were near the end of the first half instead of being just after the opening . |
| 18 | The player with whom Albert Harry is often mentioned is Peter Simpson , that prolific goal-scorer of the first half of the 1930s . |
| 19 | The main criticisms directed against the legislation of the first half of the 1980s were ‘ that decentralized democratic decision making in the form of representative local government is an essential element of the country 's political and government system … we believe the government 's proposals to limit local authority rates and expenditure levels are a major threat to this ’ ( SAUS , 1983 , Conclusion ) . |
| 20 | Highlights of the first half were three specially adapted songs from Bizet 's Carmen and the hauntingly beautiful Intermezzo by Granados . |
| 21 | Fantasias ‘ on themes from such-an-such opera ’ were staple fare for many of the less substantial virtuosi of the first half of the nineteenth century , and even Liszt contributed a fair number of them to the literature . |
| 22 | Woodmill controlled the game for much of the first half but could not get through the Meridian defence and it was n't until two and a half minutes into the second half that the deadlock was finally broken . |
| 23 | The lead only stood until the end of the first half , however , as Mutineers ' Lyn Knowles was fouled shooting and then scored from the resulting penalty . |
| 24 | A quick break by St Albans in the last minute of the first half saw Ian Plummer score into an open net to give his side a 2–0 half time lead . |
| 25 | The won the tournament in 1959 , but was n't able to compete in 1960 due to a serious knee infection that kept him out of action for most of the first half of the season . |
| 26 | In Wordsworth 's note to this section of his poem — which also deals with improved roads and canals , and proffers hope that the new processes will bring ultimate good — he compares his work with that of a poet of the first half of the eighteenth century , John Dyer : |
| 27 | The slow , deliberate verse movement ; the invocation of such abstractions as ‘ fortitude and patient chear ’ ; the careful avoidance of metaphorical expressions ; the weight of moral earnestness ; the balancing of word against word , of phrase against phrase , of the first half against the second half of the poem — in listing these characteristics we move back fifty years . |
| 28 | Although Rangers were under the cosh for most of the first half , they went into the interval with the lead they refused to relinquish . |
| 29 | Manager Atkinson said : ‘ I thought QPR were having the better of the first half until Deano did what he 's good at — scoring a goal when there is not really anything on . |
| 30 | Middlesbrough had the better of the first half once they survived the opening quarter of an hour when Ironside , deputising for the injured Pears , kept them on terms . |