Example sentences of "in the [num ord] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leeds 0 Ipswich 0 ‘ Leeds did n't have a shot on goal in the 2nd half … ’ |
| 2 | After the third such incident in the 2nd half , some sections of the crowd thought this was too much and while the trainer was bandaging away sang ‘ keep the ball , keep the ball , keep the ball ’ . |
| 3 | The Leeds fans loved it , the ref did n't — he had a word with the boy , and had to have another word in the 2nd half when he got into a scuffle . |
| 4 | I think he also took a dive in the penalty area in the 2nd half after Macallister ? ? |
| 5 | Wallace was great even when he took a knock early in the 2nd half ( Strandli should have been on sooner ) . |
| 6 | there was an appeal for a penalty late on in the 2nd half but it was turned doen . |
| 7 | Europe experienced in the first half of the twentieth century a simultaneous cultural , spiritual and political breakdown . |
| 8 | It was as well for Yorkshire that John Howe and John Dixon were unable to assert any aerial authority for , early in the first half , John Orwin collided with the newcomer Steve Harris , suffered a neck injury and , though he stayed on , was a virtual passenger . |
| 9 | In the first half Bracknell , inspired by another England player , Tony Balogun , had opened a 36-24 lead . |
| 10 | Tropical Plant Rentals , acquired in October 1988 for $41.5m , is believed to have accounted for a decline in margins in Rentokil 's environmental services division from 25.8 per cent to 23.1 per cent in the first half of 1989 . |
| 11 | Apart from Jason Fogerty , Giants ' tallest players offered little threat inside , while playmaker Jerry Johnson spluttered in the first half . |
| 12 | STRONG demand from other segments of the construction market left Hewden Stuart , Britain 's largest plant hire group , virtually untouched by current problems in housebuilding in the first half of the year . |
| 13 | Higgs and Hill sold 500 homes in 1988 , but volumes dropped by 35 per cent in the first half of 1989 . |
| 14 | Forward sales for completion in the first half of this year are sufficient to meet internal targets , Mr Maunders said . |
| 15 | Most economists believe that the tighter squeeze on the economy would now lead to a more rapid deceleration in inflation in the first half of next year than had been expected before yesterday 's base rate increase . |
| 16 | The private group , which insures invoices and financing arrangements , recorded 1,220 falures in the first half of this year , but indications so far show that at least 2,000 more failures will be recorded by the end of the year . |
| 17 | In the first half of 1989 the total was 1,220 and indications are that more than 2,000 companies will suffer liquidity problems in the second half . |
| 18 | This would help protect Jaguar from fluctuations in the dollar-sterling exchange rate — the principal factor behind the collapse in its pre-tax profits in the first half of the year to £1.2m . |
| 19 | The company , which owns Spear & Jackson , the garden tools manufacturer , has been the subject of recurrent speculation for months , and it was fuelled last month when Neill announced a fall in pre-tax profits from £2.71m to just £28,000 in the first half . |
| 20 | Corporate overheads in the first half were cut from $8m to $7.7m , and total operating income rose from $13.3m to £16.2m . |
| 21 | Mr Cluff said that the interest payments , which were £605,000 in the first half , on the £7.7m loan for developing the Zimbabwe properties , should diminish as cashflow from gold production reduces the principal . |
| 22 | Around 242 homes were sold by the company in the first half of this year . |
| 23 | He pointed to a ‘ desperate need to educate the population better ’ and said that in the first half of the Eighties the engineering workforce fell by a third and the number of graduates employed increased by half . |
| 24 | In the first half of a concert which spanned the gamut from Expressionism to Impressionism , the hall 's resonance favoured the spare lines of Webern 's Op 6 while proving cruelly analytical in Ravel 's Sheherazade . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Steadman 's contribution in the first half was restricted to three penalty goals . |
| 27 | But losses leapt to £5.5m in the first half of 1989 . |
| 28 | Kleinwort last month reported a decline in pre-tax profits of almost £5m to £30.1m in the first half , though recovering from loss in the previous six months . |
| 29 | Libra Bank , the London-based consortium bank which trades in third world debts , plunged to a pre-tax loss of £174.6m in the first half of 1989 from profits last time of £10.9m . |
| 30 | INTEREST rates may be rising , pushing borrowers even further into debt , but the number of county court judgments against individuals in debt has fallen by 16 per cent in the first half of 1989 , according to figures released by the Registry of County Court Judgments . |