Example sentences of "but the second half " in BNC.

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1 The attack on the camp formed a spectacular climax half way through the film , but the second half was routine melodrama by comparison .
2 It was too long and the opening was still shaky but the second half was shaping up well .
3 But the second half of the lyric moves on from this : the completion of the line looks back to what has gone before in its rhyme , but syntactically and alliteratively it moves forward to convey the perception of that very still mourning symptomatic of the inner spiritual movement of Christ 's coming .
4 The first half was evenish , but the second half was a whole load of Leeds pressure , with counter-attacks from Norwich .
5 But the second half 's Shostakovich , the G Minor Piano Quintet , was magnificent .
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