Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the first half " in BNC.
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| 1 | No two coalfields were the same , but if a general pattern can be discerned from the variety of experience it is that during the first half of the nineteenth century each region largely generated its own workforce from the natural increase of its population , but that the spectacular later developments drew not only upon local men who left the farms or rural crafts and industries in large numbers but also upon the surplus population of counties from all over the British Isles . |
| 2 | In all of Delhi 's history , at no period was that thin dress of civilization more beautiful — or more deceptively woven — than during the first half of the seventeenth century , during the Golden Age of Shah Jehan . |
| 3 | There was a longer period of comparative calm in the townships of the East Rand during the second half of December than at any time in the previous five months , although during the first half of the month deaths had averaged 20 per day . |
| 4 | What is clear is that this golden age did not exist in the mid 1950s , in the first part of this century nor in the first half of the last century . |
| 5 | He pointed to a ‘ desperate need to educate the population better ’ and said that in the first half of the Eighties the engineering workforce fell by a third and the number of graduates employed increased by half . |
| 6 | County NatWest calculates that in the first half of the year to September 1991 , Hanson made £150m interest on its cash pile and £60m-70m from selling a subsidiary — in all , 37% of its total pre-tax profits of £588m . |
| 7 | UK Management Buyouts 1992 , the annual review for The Centre for Management Buyout Research at the University of Nottingham , notes that in the first half of 1992 , buyouts and buy-ins accounted for 29.6% of the value of all transfers of ownership in the UK and nearly 60% of the total number . |
| 8 | The serial usage is arranged so that in the first half , the ‘ O ’ , ‘ I ’ , ‘ R ’ , and ‘ RI ’ versions are all used at once , as follows : Violin 1 — ‘ O ’ beginning on C ; Violin 2 — ‘ R ’ of the same series as that of Violin 1 ; Viola — ‘ RI ’ of the series beginning on B♭ ; Cello — ‘ I ’ of the series beginning on B♭ . |
| 9 | The situation was slightly better than in the first half of the 1980s , when more power stations were cancelled than entered service , but those under construction all dated from orders placed at the beginning of the 1970s . |
| 10 | The European balance of power was thus after the Seven Years War a more subtle problem in many ways than in the first half of the century . |
| 11 | higher than in the first half of 1990 . |
| 12 | In conclusion , the population of England remained fairly stable for much of the fifteenth century , at a far lower level than in the first half of the fourteenth . |
| 13 | Since labour supply did not increase to meet this demand , the growth of civilian employment was only marginally higher in the late sixties and early seventies than in the first half of the sixties ( table 11.2 ) . |
| 14 | First , there is the aristocratic theory which defines conservatism as ‘ the ideology of a specific and unique historical movement : the reaction of the feudal-aristocratic-agrarian classes to the French Revolution , liberalism , and to the rise of the bourgeoisie at the end of the eighteenth century and during the first half of the nineteenth century ’ . |
| 15 | Certainly he played extremely well in that position after Peter Wall was injured for most of 1972–73 and in the first half of 1973–74 , and it was from that position that he captained the Palace side . |
| 16 | Despite these criticisms , the report stimulated initiatives based on its recommendations and in the first half of 1981 Her Majesty 's Inspectors carried out a survey of Haycocks II provision in the nine English RACs . |
| 17 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what was the level of capital investment in the North sea in 1990 , and in the first half of 1991 . |
| 18 | The hitherto buoyant Taiwan stock exchange suffered an unprecedented decline during 1989 and in the first half of 1990 . |
| 19 | The official statistics agency , Goskomstat , announced on April 19 that oil production had declined by 9 per cent during the first quarter of 1991 as compared with the same period in 1990 , and in the first half of 1991 there was a 25 per cent fall in oil exports . |
| 20 | I was in the middle of the kop for this game , and in the first half it was very much the place to be . |
| 21 | Both teams needed to win this match and in the first half , there was only one winner ; Gloucester . |
| 22 | There was also a regular police force , but during the first half of the nineteenth century it was small , poorly paid , and limited largely to Colombo , Galle , and areas where there were coffee plantations . |
| 23 | Swindon tried to play their game but in the first half did n't have much joy … |
| 24 | Now , obviously , you know , yo getting the menopause out into the open so that everyone can talk about it , exchange information that that it 's not seen as a as a taboo or something to be particularly fearful of by men or women is n't going to be much good if it just makes everybody worry for er , for for the first half of o o o of their lives and , and then gibber through the second half ! |
| 25 | In the early eighteenth century poverty was partially responsible for the many applications for military rank , for in the first half of the century even a commission in a new regiment , and the near certainty of half-pay at the conclusion of the war emergency , was attractive . |
| 26 | On the assumption that they would continue to fall at the same rate as in the first half of the decade , it was estimated that the population would be only one tenth of its size in a hundred years time . |
| 27 | The situation at West Glamorgan was , however , very different , as in the first half of 1977 the other Welsh teacher-training institutions mounted a rescue operation to save its courses . |