Example sentences of "from the second half " in BNC.
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| 1 | As was the case with the West Coast main line , the Great Western sub-sector was also badly affected by recession , but the decline at the start of the decade was matched by a spectacular recovery which started from the second half of the 1980s . |
| 2 | Its façade dates from the second half of the 18C and is by Josef Jägr , an Austrian from the Tyrol . |
| 3 | It is one of the capital 's earliest Gothic buildings , dating from the second half of the 13C , and is one of the earliest surviving synagogues in Europe . |
| 4 | It dates from the second half of the 14C . |
| 5 | Whether you will be able to do the job in a vacant spot in the vegetable plot , at the back of a border or wherever , a suitable area has to be earmarked and reserved so that it can be empty and vacant from the second half of September on . |
| 6 | Hewlett-Packard Co is to transfer worldwide responsibility for development and manufacturing of high-end plotters to its plant in Sant Cugat del Valles , outside Barcelona in Spain from San Diego under a $15.2m programme that will create over 100 jobs : the company will also concentrate manufacture of inkjet printers for Europe in Barcelona from the second half of next year ; Hewlett 's plants in Vancouver and Singapore will supply Deskjets for the rest of the world . |
| 7 | Definitely an acquired taste was a clunky Spanish colonial gilt-metal mounted mother-of-pearl , tortoiseshell , pewter , ebonised and parcel-gilt cabinet made for a viceroy of Peru , and dating from the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 8 | Several of Sisley 's early paintings dating from the second half of the 1860s were accepted for display in the official Salon , but during the 1870s he began to paint in a fully fledged Impressionist style characterized by pure colours applied with broken brush strokes and bright light . |
| 9 | Fundamentally an actuary is a problem-solver and this is a thread which runs from the second half of the 18th Century to the present day . |
| 10 | Duration : the course is offered from the second half of June to the middle of August . |
| 11 | Charles 's charters include 19 grants ( 15 of them dating from the second half of the reign ) of rights over markets , often specified as weekly markets rather than annual fairs . |
| 12 | From the second half of the 1960s , the aims of these new sectors and the tensions between them and the Francoist old guard would contribute to the build-up of pressure for democracy which characterized the last decade of Franco 's life . |
| 13 | From the second half of the 1960s the CNAA was increasingly involved in the award of degrees for students on courses which it had approved , in a sector of education whose boundaries were being drawn from elsewhere . |
| 14 | During the sixteenth century Myddle was essentially a society consisting of numerous smallholders and a few large farmers , but from the second half of Elizabeth 's reign onwards poor immigrants came into the parish in search of labouring work and the opportunity to erect a cottage in the woods or on the manorial wastes . |
| 15 | ‘ The studio portraiture movement , flourishing in Britain from the second half of the 19th century until early 1960s , channelled many women into photography as a professional occupation … ’ says Val Williams . |
| 16 | Following on from the second half of their previous pool game — against Nadroga — Scotland enjoyed five minutes of possession against Samoa yet could manufacture only one clear-cut chance . |
| 17 | Thus although items from the second half of the 20th Century did appear to suffer from less serious deterioration than those from its first half ( with no post-1950 material being considered ‘ Fragile ’ ) , of all defective 20th Century publications noted , 7% were ‘ Fragile ’ , whereas the comparable figure for 19th Century publications was only 2% , and even if the proportion of defective items placed in the category of least deterioration — ‘ Poor ’ — was smaller for 19th Century items than for those of the 20th Century ( 76% as opposed to 80% ) , the difference was extremely slight . |
| 18 | The Course is divided into four units covering the period from the second half of the eighteenth century to the present day . |