Example sentences of "in the second half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quick replies by Kelly Shelford and Mark Elia led to the suspicion that New Zealand could score at will and were easing themselves into their stride , but doubts arose early in the second half with a succession of missed chances . |
| 2 | In scoring the try which restored Llanelli 's lead and waning confidence deep in the second half , the left wing Bowling got an accidental boot in the mouth . |
| 3 | Very kind , but international players are supposed to be habitually influential , and it was Hazard who in the second half , with a few incisive passes , gifts from the heavens on a day like this , left a greater mark . |
| 4 | Lewis and Langridge added further goals before the interval with Anne Green and Andrea Gallyer completing the scoring in the second half for a convincing 5-0 win . |
| 5 | Castleford , who , like Hull , were fined £3,000 yesterday for brawling in a League match , were in control for most of the game , but their young side was caught by a Kiwi revival in the second half . |
| 6 | The introduction of Gary Freeman , a former Castleford player , helped settle the tourists , who prevented any home score in the second half . |
| 7 | In the second half , Paul Ince , running on to a free kick , beat Pompey 's wall to see the ball deflected off Knight 's body . |
| 8 | Selling the 30 per cent stake in Harrisons Malaya brought a £75.9m extraordinary first half profit , and the sale of Felton should bring a £25m excess in the second half . |
| 9 | The decline was attributed to ‘ very soft prices ’ for finished clothing leather in the second half , which eroded profit margins . |
| 10 | ‘ We were all too aware that exhaustion would be a problem in the second half . ’ |
| 11 | This page Business failures : Business failures soared by more than a third in the second half of this year . |
| 12 | That is why figures produced by credit insurer Trade Indemnity , showing the rate of business failures soaring by more than a third in the second half of this year , are so worrying . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He can not possibly have played better despite tiring in the second half of a patchy but exciting final . |
| 15 | David Evans , the stand-off who plays centre for Wales , and Andrew Booth , his scrum-half partner , virtually sealed the result in the second half simply by appreciating what the Newport pair , David Phillips and Nigel Callard , had failed to grasp in the first — that kicking downwind is as good a way as any of gaining huge chunks of ground to keep the pressure on . |
| 16 | As for the match , Rovers conspired to throw a smokescreen of their own around their abilities until they emerged starkly with two clever goals inside three minutes early in the second half to scuttle their scoreless fellow Third Division promotion hopefuls . |
| 17 | Chicago showed enough life early in the second half to get within seven points of the Bucs , but ended up scoring only 35 points to Tampa Bay 's 42 , the most points scored against the Bears since 1981 . |
| 18 | ‘ It should be borne in mind that seasonal variations in stock market activity ususally result in lower turnover in the second half . |
| 19 | The Widnes tale of woe continued in the second half , when Tony Myler was unable to hold Pyke 's pass and Turner intercepted to give Thorniley a second try . |
| 20 | It is in the second half , when Helena becomes a quasi-symbolic force for life and renewal that Patricia Kerrigan 's performance comes into its own . |
| 21 | The company is not likely to make a profit either in the second half of this year or next year . |
| 22 | In the second half Ronnie Whelan , Ray Houghton and Kevin Sheedy showed some lovely skills , and the North could n't cope . ’ |
| 23 | In the second half of 1982 , however , Britain 's inflation rate fell to the OECD average of 5 per cent and then steadily declined to 2.5 per cent in July 1986 , the lowest figure since 1967 . |
| 24 | If anything , the surveys suggest that the public mood was at its most Thatcherite and right-wing in the second half of the 1970s . |
| 25 | The history of Marxist anthropology since The Origin has , as a result , been the difficult , painful , and incomplete recovery of Marxism for pre-capitalist social formations , and the story of this process is what we shall consider in the second half of this book . |
| 26 | Even Association football has grown at the grass roots with a further 2,000 clubs affiliating to the FA in the second half of the 1970s to make up a total of almost 40,000 . |
| 27 | To anyone who knew Lewis in the second half of his life , and remarked his preference for boys ' books such as R. M. Ballantyne or Captain Marryat over the so-called ‘ moderns ’ , there can be no doubt that he was here addressing a warning not just to his brother but to himself . |
| 28 | At some point in the second half of next year , and perhaps even earlier if President Mitterrand decides to bring forward the abolition of French controls , the Government is going to be faced with an inescapable decision . |
| 29 | Bournemouth searched spiritedly for an equaliser in the second half . |
| 30 | Judit performed even better in the second half than the first . |