Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor had the problems begun only at that time : the Bank for International Settlements had already warned that net bank lending had fallen steeply in the second quarter of the year , from $90,000 million to $65,000 million , while the amount raised in the world securities markets had shrunk from $44,000 million to $25,000 million . |
| 2 | Pat Archer , of the county council 's transportation department , said the problem had dropped slightly in the second half of last term . |
| 3 | Forest , held to a 1-1 draw at the City Ground , were 3-1 ahead with 17 minutes of normal time left , and deservedly so ; they had come out for the second half bristling with determination to make quality tell . |
| 4 | The government accepted indicative bids for BTG and informed the consortia involved in the bidding which of them had got through to the second round at the end of January . |
| 5 | He listened to Nigel Cramer for several minutes , nodded and gave his own orders to the dozen men who had clambered out of the second and third helicopters . |
| 6 | Although Eisenhower and Churchill had worked together in the Second World War as military commander and prime minister , Churchill had now to remember that Eisenhower was president of the world 's greatest power . |
| 7 | You see , he had signed up with the second battalion of the Royal Fusiliers . |