Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [num ord] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | If in doubt , keep two provisional subjects going for the first half of the first term — and then drop the one that appeals to you the less . |
| 2 | Comrades led 2–1 until the 79th minute , their two goals coming in the first half from David Eddis against one from a Dean Gordon own goal but United hit back late in the game . |
| 3 | The British figured pottery took the form of colour-coated drinking beakers , the earliest products dating to the second half of the second century . |
| 4 | A similar deal has now been struck with Digital Equipment Corp , and the manufacturing software is available immediately for the Ultrix version of Unix with support for DEC 's OSF/1 following in the second half of the year . |
| 5 | A similar deal has now been struck with Digital Equipment Corp , and the manufacturing software is available immediately for the Ultrix version of Unix with support for DEC 's OSF/1 following in the second half of the year . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Turquoise was also present among the grave goods of Fu Hao , consort of a Shang king , in a tomb dating from the first half of the twelfth century B.C. One of several nephrite halberd blades was hafted in a bronze mount studded with turquoise inlay . |
| 8 | NEC Corp expects personal computer shipments in 1993-94 to increase by 10% to 1.37m units as a result of the government 's increased spending on computers for schools and public institutions : according to Reuter , NEC sees its personal computer sales rising in the second half of the fiscal when public institutions start to introduce the machines ; in the year to March , NEC 's personal computer shipments were down by 5% . |
| 9 | I refer to the rapid decline of the use of walnut in English furniture making in the first half of the 18th century . |
| 10 | The Spartans however maintained their composure and with only seconds remaining in the first half were rewarded with a T.D . |
| 11 | Operating profits have increased by 17.5% from £17.7 million to £20.8 million with all the growth coming in the second half . |
| 12 | The First Test in Sydney was a rusty performance with the backline 's cohesion missing during the first half before the dominance of the Wallaby forwards at the scrum and line-out took control in the second half to enable them to pile on 20 points and quickly reverse the 9–7 half-time deficit . |
| 13 | The street is closed by the Black Tower , part of the castle 's fortification system dating from the first half of the 12C . |
| 14 | And in the Oxon Senior Cup third round ; Peppard five , Malborough one — Peppard 's goals ; after ten minutes , Sid Grover , fifteen minutes , Chris Maxted , twenty five minutes , Dave Smith , seventy five minutes , Dave Smith getting a second goal , eighty minutes , Kevin Watkins and Malborough 's only goal coming in the second half through Darrell Simpson ; so Peppard who do so well in the Oxford Senior Cup , Peppard five , Malborough one . |
| 15 | The medical profession ignored family planning in the first half of the century , only speaking to condemn it . |