Example sentences of "of the second half " in BNC.
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| 1 | This dispirited the French at the moment their fortunes were improving , and their problems were exacerbated when Hastings added his third penalty and his second try in the first 10 minutes of the second half . |
| 2 | Muir 's nimble footwork merited a second Rovers goal at the start of the second half but Heald 's save prevented it . |
| 3 | Having taken the game to the Baa-Baas at the start of the second half they deserved their try by Damian Griffiths , although the revival was brief . |
| 4 | At the begining of the second half England again had cause to be grateful as a marvellous five-man move graced by Tarasiewicz 's stunning volleyed pass ended with Ziober drifting a benign shot over . |
| 5 | Iro squandered a couple of chances close to the line at the start of the second half , but held on to Clark 's pass to make room for Edwards to score in the 50th minute , Phil Bancroft adding a touchline goal off the post . |
| 6 | Bibb atoned for his error at the start of the second half , when after Castleford lost the ball in front of their own posts he pounced quickly and beat three tacklers for the third Rovers ' try , Knapper adding his first goal . |
| 7 | The third part of the second half of the book mainly concerns the Germanic tribes which invaded and finally overthrew the Roman empire . |
| 8 | The first 15 minutes of the second half reminded the tourists that the game was not yet won . |
| 9 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 10 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 11 | Oxford sustained their aggressive driving at the start of the second half and forced Cambridge back on their own line . |
| 12 | The Welshman sent Critchley over within three minutes of the second half and was in support to take Tait 's pass and touch down in the 56th minute , with Holliday 's goal setting up an aborbing final quarter . |
| 13 | With trading in the first quarter similar to that of the second half of last year , the company is continuing to exercise tight control of the business . |
| 14 | One foreign broker said this week 's plunge in share prices , had knocked the last breath out of the speculative binge of the second half of the eighties , which inflated asset values , and laid the basis for a proper recovery . |
| 15 | Ipswich were as lethargic at the start of the second half as they had been for the majority of the first and on the hour , in an attempt to liven them up , Lyall brought off Milton and Goddard to introduce Palmer and Johnson . |
| 16 | In the first minute of the second half Celtic fashioned a stunning goal . |
| 17 | But , of course , Dorothy knows in those particular circumstances it was not a risk — the mental parameters fixed by the first half of the lesson controlled the freedom of the second half — and any individual child who could not cope could turn it into a ‘ reporting to the boss at the manhole ’ game . |
| 18 | THE world of the second half of the nineteenth century was very different from that which had existed before 1848 . |
| 19 | In his move towards the latter , perhaps at that time he did not quite appreciate how influential to himself and others Roger Corman had become in providing the schooling for some of the most important film-makers of the second half of the twentieth century . |
| 20 | At the start of the second half , Goldsmith saved brilliantly to deny Shortheath 's Mike Taylor a goal . |
| 21 | The start of the second half was a disaster for 'Mill , with Englefield equalising straight away . |
| 22 | His 12 strikes in the 1st Division in 1989–90 were an important feature of Palace 's creditable showing there , while our fans will of course always remember that it was Mark 's crashing drive at the start of the second half that began our recovery against Liverpool in the FA Cup semi-final and , ultimately , helped to take us to Wembley . |
| 23 | He had proved during a thorough re-analysis of old observations that the coldest decades in recent history ; the ‘ Little Ice Age ’ of the second half of the 17th century , coincided ( if that is the right word ) with an interval when the Sun was remarkably free from sunspots . |
| 24 | After a narrow escape straight from the start of the second half , when Carpenter screwed the ball wide from a good position , Farnham 's re-organised side played with growing authority . |
| 25 | The first ten minutes of the second half belonged entirely to Haslemere . |
| 26 | Another quick break by St Albans set up Ian Plummer for his second goal at the start of the second half before Woodmill started to fight back . |
| 27 | We are concerned here with the more recent debates that have used the inner city as a central organising theme , debates that have grown out of the economic boom years of the second half of the 1980s in many of the richest economies in the world . |
| 28 | In Virgil 's Aeneid , the first six hooks having shown the preparation of the hero , a large part of the second half of the poem is devoted to battles , in which the hero is tested . |
| 29 | Unfortunately we had a few lapses of concentration at the start of the second half and you just ca n't afford that against a team as good as Australia . |
| 30 | And demand at the beginning of the second half has shown ‘ an encouraging increase . ’ |