Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] the first half " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concept of a constitutional amendment as a means of returning to fiscal probity had gathered momentum throughout the first half of 1992 . |
| 2 | Nguyen Van Linh , the former general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam ( CPV ) , visited China during the first half of May . |
| 3 | Bill Filip , president of the Advanced Workstation Division says RS/6000 business has grown 50% in the first half of this year over the corresponding period last year , putting it right on course to achieve its target , he believes . |
| 4 | Mr Mubarak said he had accepted an invitation from President Bill Clinton to visit Washington in the first half of April . |
| 5 | Palazzo Spinola will show material from the first half of the seventeenth century , while the latter half will appear in the Palazzo Reale . |
| 6 | Many élite families made fortunes in the first half of the nineteenth century and then invested their wealth in agriculture , usually in plantations . |
| 7 | Profits at the group continue their unbroken rise , adding 6% in the first half to £195m , as improved figures were rung up by all divisions and the dividend was upped a penny to 13.75p . |
| 8 | Neither side had more than a couple of scoring chances in the first half , and Ecchinswell took advantage of the first of these , breaking through after dispossessing Martin Whiddett on the sideline and finding a vast opening in the Alton defence . |
| 9 | ( It is noteworthy that women known to have had hypertension in the first half of pregnancy were excluded from the analysis ) . |
| 10 | Yesterday it announced figures for the first half of 1989 so late in the day that the London market had mostly packed up and gone home by the time the screens showed that profits had risen from Ir £109m to Ir £121m and earnings were up from 21.7p to 25.4p basic . |
| 11 | Announcing half time results yesterday , the food retailer said it spent £384m in the first half of the year improving the quality and efficiency of the business . |
| 12 | After Mironov and Chapman had twice exchanged penalties in the first half , Chapman 's smart 30-yard dropped goal five minutes after the break put Cornwall ahead for the first time while Mishakov was off the field with a shoulder injury . |
| 13 | STAR TREK , Spock turns mutineer in the first half of a two-part caper . |
| 14 | They always , they always lag as you know , our , our , we always underspend capital in the first half against what our division think they 're gon na do and they always think they 're gon na catch it up in the second half , they never do but erm , it wo n't be , you know , it wo n't be materially different . |
| 15 | Sales revenues for scholastic Publications Ltd reached £8.96m for the first half of the company 's financial year ( June to November 1992 ) , representing an increase of 23.5% over the same period in 1991 . |
| 16 | Further modifications and addenda took place in the first half of the twentieth century . |
| 17 | This is not to say that it was the consequence of the rise of Fordism ( i.e. , the changes that were taking place during the first half of the 20th century in capitalist methods of production ) . |
| 18 | Coleraine 's only other clear cut chance in the first half fell to central defender Stuart McClean . |
| 19 | Bristol City 1 Middlesbrough 1ANDREW COLE , on loan from Arsenal , saved Bristol City last night by equalising in the 66th minute against Middlesbrough after the visitors seemed to have taken command in the first half . |
| 20 | Despite field reports that this initial DCE release lacks robustness , USL expects its OEMs to ship product to end users in the first half of 1993 based on it . |
| 21 | I had problems in the first half against Scotland . |