Example sentences of "by the second half " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the second half of the 1980s InterCity was well on its way towards selfsufficiency and genuine operating profits . |
| 2 | Amongst Labour identifiers , the effect of reading a right-wing paper on their relative preference for the Conservatives on unemployment was 13 per cent in the Pre-Campaign Wave , rising to 19 per cent by the second half of the campaign ( Table 8.10 ) . |
| 3 | Cork stoppers were certainly common by the second half of the 17th century , though up to the early 18th century the really smart alternative was the glass stopper , which had to be ground to fit each individual hand-blown bottle . |
| 4 | By the second half of the 1980s oil was cheap once again , thanks to the spur the crises had given to non-OPEC developments like the Alaska North Slope and North Sea oil fields . |
| 5 | in contrast to the middle classes , in which by the second half of the century contraceptives were available and effectively used , abortion was becoming a ‘ back-up ’ method of birth control ; in the case of working-class women , without safe contraceptives , it was a basic means of family planning . |
| 6 | By the second half Scotland was fighting for her life , and a missed tackle gave the opening that led to the home team 's great goal . |
| 7 | By the second half of the 1980s , total spending on African education had exceeded that for whites for the first time , though Africans make up 70 per cent of the population and whites only 17 per cent . |
| 8 | By the second half of the 1960s the machinery of local democracy was being presented in official reports as one of the sources of problems for the effective operation of local government . |
| 9 | The windmill was sited near the school , but it had disappeared by the second half of the 18th century . |
| 10 | THE £3 billion Channel Tunnel high-speed rail link and the £300 million Heathrow Express line are to go ahead , Chancellor Norman Lamont announced yesterday.But the future of the £1.7 billion cross-London rail link Crossrail appeared less certain with Mr Lamont saying the scheme was now going to be a joint venture between the public and private sectors.The much-delayed 68-mile Channel Tunnel fast link will not go into London 's King 's Cross station as British Rail hoped , but instead will terminate at neighbouring St Pancras — a less expensive option.But Mr Lamont did say that Government money would be put into the scheme which could be completed by the end of the decade.The 15-mile Paddington-Heathrow fast link — a joint venture between BR and airport operator BAA — will be started later this year and should be finished by the second half of 1997 . |
| 11 | With an assumed growing population in early Anglo-Saxon England there would have been increasing pressure on rural resources , especially by the second half of the seventh century . |
| 12 | Britain will probably be in a modest recession in the second half of this year , but should recover by the second half of 1991. — Major , November 11 , 1990 . |
| 13 | Some people are sleeping off their Sunday lunchtime pint by the second half . |
| 14 | Pricing for the two-processor EL98 begins at $340,000 , the same price as the single processor Y-MP EL , and can be expanded to eight processors ; existing Y-MP ELs can be upgraded to the new version ; Cray says that it has taken five orders for the new machines , and expects to introduce the next generation of its supercomputer family by the second half of 1994 . |
| 15 | The company plans to add Motif support in the first half of 1994 and communications support via TCP/IP by the second half of 1994 . |
| 16 | The work will be complete by the second half of 1993 . |
| 17 | In any case nobody wanted to reverse the process ; tobacco had been a pleasant commercial curtain-raiser but by the second half of the seventeenth century people in England were convinced that the real attraction of possessions overseas lay in the sugar islands . |
| 18 | By the second half of the seventeenth century English politicians realized that military and naval support of the colonies was going to cost money . |
| 19 | Pricing for the two-processor EL98 begins at $340,000 , the same price as the single processor Y-MP EL , and can be expanded to eight processors ; existing Y-MP ELs can be upgraded to the new version ; Cray says that it has taken five orders for the new machines , and expects to introduce the next generation of its super computer family by the second half of 1994 . |
| 20 | The work will be complete by the second half of 1993 . |
| 21 | For over a week government forces were unable to crush guerrilla-style resistance , but the army remained loyal and by the second half of December the workers , movement was clearly on the retreat . |
| 22 | By the second half of the century , the practice was spreading . |
| 23 | But for new grants or privileges the answer , or at least a partial answer , lay in insistence on proper confirmation by the legitimate authority ; by the second half of the twelfth century , all charters produced across the Angevin empire had to be confirmed by the Angevin chancery . |
| 24 | By the second half of the fourteenth century , few in France could claim not to be involved in it in one way or another . |
| 25 | I had pulled the team together by the second half , and Sporting found us a very different proposition and were lucky to hold us to 0–0 . |
| 26 | By the second half of February the Germans were beginning to be really worried by the advance — although slow — of the Allies and by the strong resistance of the partisans , so they decided to make a deal with the partisan leaders to save their own lives . |
| 27 | As a result of his reforms , the Shah enjoyed an excellent public image in the West by the second half of the sixties . |
| 28 | It is the sort of thing known by its fruit ; and by the second half of the nineteenth century conservation of matter and of energy were such effective assumptions that they were generally taken for established truths . |
| 29 | By the second half of the century , the teaching laboratory had become a feature of any university , especially in Germany , which tried to attract an eminent person like Du Bois-Reymond or Carl Ludwig by promising him an ‘ institute ’ with research and teaching facilities . |
| 30 | Within the southern suburb , many of the 1956–7 structures were apparently disused by the second half of the century , their footings being robbed out or cut by a new ditch alongside Ermine Street . |