Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [art] first 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 | Nonetheless , Southend had their chances — notably early in the first half . |
| 4 | South Shields , St Helens and Birkenhead all shot up quickly during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ They played really well in the first half and their commitment was total in the second half . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The simultaneous process of relaxing autarchy and rapprochement with the western democracies moved very slowly in the first half of the 1950s . |