Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps easier to work with the Germans , whom Britain fought so bitterly in the first half of this century , than with the French or the Italians , whose active roles in the Second World War were prematurely curtailed . |
| 2 | Roddy Grant went one better midway through the first half , deflecting David Byrne 's low driven cross past Maxwell with the toe of his outstretched boot . |
| 3 | We also did a very important er , technology transfer to Czechoslovakia , which er , unsubmersible pump neck technology and that 's tended to , to erm , hide a slight delcl er decline in the last quarter of the year , normally in oil most of the profit or more of the profit comes in the second half than the first , but with the Gulf War last year oil prices were pretty firm and er , so we 've made er , quite reasonable profits in the , in the er , first half and so too in the second half , but in the last quarter they 've been showed up by that technology er , transfer and the er , U S oil price is er , is , is er stag the U K's is stagnant , the U S is stagnant in oil and the gas prices are very , very far down , they 're well down . |
| 4 | City were well in contention when Jon Bland kicked a penalty to make it 6–3 but they fell away badly in the second half . |
| 5 | This improvement came through entirely in the second half and was predominantly in the USA where we saw the beginnings of economic recovery . |
| 6 | Seaman badly bruised a hip and came off early in the second half last weekend but has received extensive treatment . |
| 7 | Offiah , back in action against Widnes last Friday after missing two matches with hamstring trouble , was carried off early in the second half after pulling up in agony . |
| 8 | Centre Bill Harbinson went off early in the second half with a groin injury and could miss the rest of the season . |
| 9 | Two fine headed goals from Paul Smith and Scott Leitch wrapped up the points in a hard-fought derby match at Central Park which saw Cowdenbeath 's Billy Herd ordered off early in the second half for a foul on Neale Cooper . |
| 10 | Newport3 NEWBRIDGE moved to joint third place in the Heineken League with their ninth win in an ill-tempered game where David Roberts , the Newbridge flanker , and Frank Hillman , the Newport prop , were sent off midway through the second half for fighting . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , Southend had their chances — notably early in the first half . |
| 12 | South Shields , St Helens and Birkenhead all shot up quickly during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | Welcome to Molyneux , Headley , Brian Horton 's with me , the United manager because he was brought up in this part of the world , must be very proud of what you brought up here for the second half Brian , but so disappointed after that first half showing . |
| 14 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 15 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 16 | Midfielder Dino Baggio added a second from another corner just before half time and substitute Fabrizio Ravanelli killed off the Portuguese side when he hammered the third shortly after coming on midway through the second half . |
| 17 | The various government schemes designed to assist labour transfers ( Johnson and Salt , 1980 ) have traditionally made an extremely limited contribution to migration and were cut back further in the first half of the 1980s . |
| 18 | Full-back Huw Davies failed to take a scoring pass 20 yards out early in the second half and Thomas failed with four penalties , the first two against the wind . |
| 19 | Fox , with a header , and Beckford , with a shot Miklosko parried on his line , might have pulled them back early in the second half before West Ham twice exposed the right flank of their defence . |
| 20 | Coleraine hit back early in the second half with a splendid strike from Cook . |
| 21 | ‘ They played really well in the first half and their commitment was total in the second half . |
| 22 | Judit performed even better in the second half than the first . |
| 23 | Perhaps I would be a bit churlish if I said that they could have scored even more in the second half , but that 's a minor complaint . |
| 24 | We 've had almost a minute of stoppage time and Leicester lead by that single David Speedy goal from what seems a long time ago now in the first half . |
| 25 | there was an appeal for a penalty late on in the 2nd half but it was turned doen . |
| 26 | Coton twice saved almost miraculously in the first half when both Pearson and Hirst were frustrated by the woodwork as Wednesday 's mixture of pace , strength and rapid teamwork overwhelmed the visitors . |
| 27 | Again early in the second half he was just wide , but after 49 minutes he did succeed when not only did Wakefield collapse a scrum but they were also offside . |
| 28 | Do n't have the answer I 'm afraid and neither did poor old Shepherd when they came plundering again early in the second half . |
| 29 | Rod Wallace put Leeds ahead early in the second half but their inability to strike any kind of attacking rhythm obliged them , and the Elland Road faithful , to live on their nerves until Lee Chapman and Eric Cantona both scored in the final three minutes . |
| 30 | Quinn 's steady head found the rigging again midway through the second half , from new skipper Nigel Worthington 's cross , but this time the ‘ goal ’ was disallowed . |