Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] half of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Domestic exports performed badly during the first half of 1990 , but growth in the re-export trade partly compensated . |
| 2 | Gael , who is not religious , holds only with the first half of the double limerick according to which existence depends on being the object of another 's perception . |
| 3 | Another chapter today would see me nicely into the second half of my story , and this evening I would talk to Crispin and get things sorted out with him . |
| 4 | In addition , the two-tier pricing system allowed US domestic industry to purchase oil well below world market prices ( some 40 per cent below in the first half of 1979 ) . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | But these gains were ultimately lost , especially in the second half of the century . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Bridget Hill has remarked that what constituted marriage among the eighteenth-century lower orders was " anything but clearly defined " , especially in the first half of the century before the passing of Hardwicke 's Marriage Act . |
| 9 | So in the last half of February Fleischmann and Pons had a detector with which they could count neutrons . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But it is only in the second half of 1908 that Picasso turned to a more concentrated study of Cézanne . |
| 13 | Yet , only in the last half of the 20th century has a select band of some 200 people been able to call themselves astronauts — ‘ travellers in interplanetary space ’ . |
| 14 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |
| 15 | The " good years " of textile out-workers , for example , began before the war but lasted only over the first half of it . |
| 16 | With an assumed growing population in early Anglo-Saxon England there would have been increasing pressure on rural resources , especially by the second half of the seventh century . |
| 17 | Thus during the first half of this first term , students begin to develop their work as collectors and presenters of story and poetry material , and of becoming more expert in children 's fiction of every kind . |
| 18 | Already during the first half of the second millennium B.C. Minoan smiths were fabricating gold jewellery from metal most probably imported from Egypt . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | up and call me now A little music as well we have on the show we have a video from Elvis to give away in the second half of the programme and star guest this afternoon is Mary Whitehouse . |
| 21 | Thus in the second half of the nineteenth century the British labour movement , in contrast to its continental counterparts , was an industrial movement without , at that time , the establishment of a political wing . |
| 22 | Thus in the second half of the nineteenth century between 25 and 40 per cent of the members of the Swiss Federal Council consisted of entrepreneurs and rentiers ( 20–30 per cent of the Council members being the ‘ federal barons ’ who ran the banks , railways and industries ) , a rather larger percentage than in the twentieth century . |
| 23 | Not until the second half of the sixteenth century , when there was a desire to combat Spanish power and to tap the resources of the Indies , did an English enterprise to North America again become attractive . |
| 24 | One is that the , the impact of quotes and the other improvements coming through in the second half of the year will reduce some of that impact anyway and also that that hundred thousand pounds overspend is sig is over-skewed because the proportion of quotes work in there is actually making a , making a difference too . |
| 25 | The war went on throughout the second half of 1 168 . |
| 26 | Villages as well as towns expanded rapidly during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | South Shields , St Helens and Birkenhead all shot up quickly during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | This type of diabetes is diagnosed usually in the first half of life , exposing those affected to abnormal levels of blood glucose and other metabolites for decades . |
| 29 | However , Soviet trade with the West expanded rapidly in the first half of 1989 , showing a 9 per cent growth in volume , while imports grew by about 11 per cent . |
| 30 | The flocks disperse very rapidly in the second half of March and sizable flocks are rare after the end of this month . |