Example sentences of "and the [num ord] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | The transition perhaps partly explains why representative democracy is so much less associated with national liberation today than in the late eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries . |
| 2 | Opposite Shipping lines and their agents advertised throughout the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century . |
| 3 | It was written during the latter part of 1913 and the first half of 1914 and for part of that time the author was travelling in Austria . |
| 4 | All three components had a hand in producing the marked reduction in annual growth rate between the first half of the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s , but the dominant feature was the fall in the number of births . |
| 5 | Is not it higher today than throughout the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s ? |
| 6 | Between the first half of 1974 and the first half of 1979 , there was a fall in manufacturing output of 2 per cent . |
| 7 | In terms of world production , OPEC output was estimated over the second half of 1988 and the first half of 1989 to have represented about 34 per cent of the total ; in addition approximately 20 per cent was produced by the Soviet Union and about 15 per cent by the United States , around 5 per cent each by Mexico and China , and about 3 per cent each by the United Kingdom and Canada . |
| 8 | Relations between the United States and Israel in late 1989 and the first half of 1990 were marked by growing differences over the strategy towards the Middle East peace process [ see pp. 37304 ; 37547 ] and over the settlement of Jewish Immigrants [ see p. 37304 ] . |
| 9 | The impact of the momentous events of mid-1989 , culminating in the Tiananmen Square massacre in June [ see pp. 36720-22 ] , was still evident during 1990 and the first half of 1991 . |
| 10 | Relations with the United States remained strained during 1990 and the first half of 1991 . |
| 11 | This vulnerability increased during 1990 and the first half of 1991 as he grappled unsuccessfully with a series of complex problems [ for his replacement in October 1991 see pp. 38528-29 ; 38558 ] . |
| 12 | Throughout 1990 and the first half of 1991 the SLORC had imposed a series of legal restrictions on the NLD and other opponents which effectively frustrated their political ambitions . |
| 13 | During 1990 and the first half of 1991 relations altered dramatically with the Soviet Union , which , struggling with momentous internal political and economic problems , made major cuts in its aid programme to Vietnam , and a cutback in the Soviet naval and air base at Cam Ranh Bay ; in October 1990 the Soviet ambassador to Vietnam announced that the Soviet Union had started to withdraw its troops from the base . |
| 14 | During 1990 and the first half of 1991 , however , this contention looked increasingly mistaken as , within weeks of the election victory , both Hawke and his party were recording high levels of public dissatisfaction in opinion polls . |
| 15 | It is tempting to explain the startling developments which duly took place in Russian domestic affairs in the second half of the 1850s and the first half of the 1860s by saying that the tsar recognized the extent of the difficulties which confronted him and applied himself to resolving them . |
| 16 | RENFE 's deficit , for reasons discussed in other chapters , exploded during the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The novel is about a third too long , and the second half could decently have been pruned back . |
| 20 | ‘ And the second half 'll be just as one-sided . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In terms of military organization the Republic made considerable progress between the chaotic summer of 1936 and the second half of 1937 . |
| 23 | The young Pathan had guarded my car zealously and got my thanks and the second half of his reward . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | The old beginning ‘ Hello songs ’ had been reinstated and were well-received and the second half seemed to take wings . |