Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the first half " in BNC.
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| 1 | OIL production by member states of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries dropped 900,000 barrels a day to 23.5m last month but remains well above the cartel 's target level of 22.9m for the first half , the International Energy Agency has said . |
| 2 | The forwards were again beaten in the line-outs during the first half . |
| 3 | The budget for the first half of 1918 had been estimated at 17.6 milliard roubles expenditure , but revenue at only 2.8 milliard . |
| 4 | In October the government announced that CFC production in West Germany during the first half of 1990 had been reduced to 42,820 tonnes ( as compared with 112,000 tonnes during the whole of 1986 ) . |
| 5 | King Hussein visited Iceland , Canada , the USA , France and Germany during the first half of March . |
| 6 | The economy made good progress during the first half of 1990 , with GNP growth of 1.5 per cent , a reduction in the budget deficit , a noticeable improvement in the trade balance and a fall in inflation to 8 per cent from around 25 per cent in 1989 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Pham told delegates that there had been a rapid increase in export turnover during the first half of 1990 , but that the production of export goods was threatened by the major socio-economic changes in Eastern Europe , which had forced some countries to cancel contracts , and that " the dilatory payment and overdue debts to the export goods manufacturers fail to encourage the production of export goods " . |
| 9 | On the negative side press reports indicated that the cost of the programme during the first half of 1990 had been a massive rise in unemployment ( from an official 6,000 at the end of 1989 to 568,000 ) ; a 30 per cent fall in output ; a 25 per cent drop in industrial sales in the first quarter ( in comparison with the same period in 1989 ) ; and an estimated 30 per cent drop in living standards , as real incomes slumped by around 35 per cent and 90 per cent of prices were freed ( following the abolition of subsidies ) to find their market level . |
| 10 | Forces loyal to Aoun engaged in another major confrontation during the first half of 1990 when they fought for control of Christian East Beirut against Samir Geaga 's Lebanese Forces ( LF ) militia . |
| 11 | Fourteen pound for the firs er twelve pound for the first half and fourteen for the second . |
| 12 | It follows earlier work by the investigator into industry during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | During an , a very intensive training and organization period in the United States during the first half of nineteen forty three , and that does sound a long time ago , er we er the Three-Ninetieth Bomb Group , under the able direction of Colonel , er arrived at Parham , right here , in July nineteen forty three . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , inflation rose for some months , and production continued to grow in all major economies except the United States during the first half of 1974 . |
| 15 | The tax remissions of the first half of the fifteenth century show that some of the villages which later disappeared were granted substantial reliefs , although this was not universal . |
| 16 | He is confident that the new acquisitions will play an important role in future growth , and believes that ‘ the momentum of the first half will be maintained to give a satisfactory outcome for the full year . ’ |
| 17 | The intra-Christian fighting of the first half of 1990 did not result in any tangible changes in territorial control over the enclave ; the LF maintained control of Jounieh and Jubail areas to the north of Beirut as well as the East Beirut quarters of Ashrafieh and Karantina , while Aoun held on to the area around the Baabda Presidential palace , where he himself was based , and around Ras al Metn and the southern entrances to East Beirut . |
| 18 | There 'd been pink wine , Rose Anjou 1969 on the label , celebrating the completion of the first half of his father 's book on the shore lark . |
| 19 | In Wordsworth 's note to this section of his poem — which also deals with improved roads and canals , and proffers hope that the new processes will bring ultimate good — he compares his work with that of a poet of the first half of the eighteenth century , John Dyer : |
| 20 | The other pleasure of the first half was seeing Beeny perform competently in goal , and the defence doing likewise . |
| 21 | There is a very useful collection of 111 vessels of the first half of the first century under ‘ Belgic Verulamium ’ ; a group of 18 vessels from the filling of an unfinished well-shaft dated by a coin of Pius ( 145 — 161 ) ‘ lost in fair condition ’ , and a stamp of the samian potter GERMINVS who is also found on the Antonine Wall ( 142 — 163 ) ; a pit group ( Pit 6 , Insula V ) of 14 vessels with a coin of Pius ( 154 — 155 ) ; 9 vessels from Triangular Temple , from the filling between two floors of the courtyard ; there follows 9 more vessels , from different places , and 15 predating the S.E. gate , and finally , there are 7 from Pit 5 in building IV , considered as late fourth and possibly fifth century . |
| 22 | Fantasias ‘ on themes from such-an-such opera ’ were staple fare for many of the less substantial virtuosi of the first half of the nineteenth century , and even Liszt contributed a fair number of them to the literature . |
| 23 | One example which comes to mind is Bransby Williams , who emulated the performances of Charles Dickens and Sir Henry Irving throughout the first half of this century . |
| 24 | The concept of a constitutional amendment as a means of returning to fiscal probity had gathered momentum throughout the first half of 1992 . |
| 25 | Millwall were a disappointment in the first half ; they never played . |
| 26 | Following the example of the Collings , the divergence of type was continued by the Booth family of Killesby and Warlaby , Yorkshire , who in 1790 began to breed the Teeswater for fleshiness ( and were still doing so in 1919 ) , and Thomas Bates of Kirklevington in Yorkshire , born in 1775 , who bred for milk , both families making full use of Colling stock in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | Although rarely seen as an attacking force in the first half , the Whites , nevertheless , led 1–0 at half-time thanks to Billy Totten 's eighth minute goal , a tragedy for home keeper Declan Devine . |
| 28 | Derby may be flash with their money ; they were certainly flash with their football in the first half . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought some of the football in the first half was superb again . |
| 30 | Before entering into a discussion of the reasons for the decline of the organized networks , and of the patterns of cattle theft in the first half of the twentieth century , 1 shall first discuss in some detail the administrative policies which affected cattle stealing in its heyday . |