Example sentences of "[adv] in the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judit performed even better in the second half than the first . |
| 2 | We were poor in the first half and slightly better in the second . |
| 3 | Capriati showed a little bit of rust from an eight-week lay-off , but her big first serve consistently registered 100mph and she said : ‘ I felt a lot better in the second set , I got into it a lot more . ’ |
| 4 | Sampson top scored for Sheffield with 12 and 13 not out having been kept in reserve too long in the second innings . |
| 5 | In the first type of case , but not necessarily in the second , the consent is a response to a proposal initiated by another . |
| 6 | What tremendous skill be displayed as his runs and passes , especially in the second half , stretched Ipswich to the limit and sometimes beyond . |
| 7 | Consequently , childbearing is concentrated within the first decade of married life ( 84 per cent of births within marriage in 1956–60 , 92 per cent in 1976 ) , and especially in the second half of the decade — 33 per cent of births occurred in the fifth to the ninth years of marriage in 1976 compared to 26 per cent in 1951–5 ( figure 4.11 ) . |
| 8 | But these gains were ultimately lost , especially in the second half of the century . |
| 9 | In 1800 , 90% of Americans lived in rural communities ; but with the growth of industry , especially in the second half of the century , towns and cities began to spread , and by 1920 over 50% of the population lived in them . |
| 10 | The figures for the proportion of vacancies that are acceptable , men aged 55 and over have very low reservation wages ( especially in the second period ) and appear to accept almost any job . |
| 11 | The youth team , despite several late call-offs , put up a great performance especially in the second half when the schools needed two late tries to pull clear . |
| 12 | Furthermore if a blocking strain of mouse is used ( if the mice are outbred this is most likely to be the case ) then care must be taken to ensure that 2-cell stage embryos are recovered from the oviducts late enough in the second cell cycle to ensure their normal development to blastocysts in vitro . |
| 13 | The tourists had looked decidedly ordinary at times during the first half , but combined more fluently in the second to run up their most convincing victory to date , albeit a hollow one . |
| 14 | Middlesbrough were stronger defensively in the second half as , surprisingly , Swindon tried to upset them with a long-ball game rather , than with their usual slick passing style . |
| 15 | So in the second part of the letter ( from Col. 3:18 ff . ) |
| 16 | Although most commentators have claimed that Berkeley 's principal opponent was Descartes , whom he cited as an example only in the second ( 1710 ) edition , he was more generally denying the widely-received assumption that we see according to the laws of geometry — this assumption being central to the perspectivist tradition . |
| 17 | The rest of the economy has been slower to cut investment mainly because the slowdown hit the service sector only in the second half of last year . |
| 18 | Morgenthau 's Realist theory was , as we have said , based on six principles , outlined in an introductory chapter added only in the second edition of the book ; this fact may explain why the six principles do not deal explicitly with two of the three concepts that are central to the remainder of the book , namely ‘ national interest ’ and the ‘ balance of power ’ . |
| 19 | This is why , though the ideas were becoming common from the late eighteenth century , effective alternative and oppositional formations became common only in the second half of the nineteenth century and increased markedly towards the end of the century . |
| 20 | ‘ Only in the second degree , ’ Jehan said cheerfully . |
| 21 | Of the seventeen pieces in this collection , which survives complete only in the second edition of 1533 , no fewer than eight — only seven in the 1533 version — are by Philippe Verdelot ( d. c. 1540 ) , a Frenchman who lived in Italy from a very early age , two ( three in the second edition ) are by an Italian , Costanzo Festa ( C. 1495–1545 ) , one is by another Festa , Sebastiano , of whom we know nothing , one by a mysterious ‘ Maistre Jan ’ or Ihan who has only recently been identified as ‘ a French-born musician active at the court of Ferrara from 1512 to about 1543 ’ , and the remainder by still more shadowy characters . |
| 22 | But it is only in the second half of 1908 that Picasso turned to a more concentrated study of Cézanne . |
| 23 | Only in the second year , when the allowance currently is 25 per cent . |
| 24 | Devoid of ideas beyond booting hopeful balls forward in the first half , Alton got their act together in the second , coming from behind to take the points through sheer hard graft . |
| 25 | Dundela got it together in the second half and it was Dean Smyth 's turn to save his side . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Aberdeen , who missed the diligent foraging of the injured Grant , strung more passes together in the second half . |
| 28 | This improvement came through entirely in the second half and was predominantly in the USA where we saw the beginnings of economic recovery . |
| 29 | In any case , it 's tucked away in the second half of the book , after Offred 's prison-like existence has been thoroughly , horribly established . |
| 30 | Weaver 's body was photographed , and taken away in the second ambulance to arrive on the scene . |