Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | One nil Leicester twenty four minutes completed in the second half . |
| 2 | Their goals came in the first half , Scot Sammy Johnston opening his account for the club and |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But , of course , Dorothy knows in those particular circumstances it was not a risk — the mental parameters fixed by the first half of the lesson controlled the freedom of the second half — and any individual child who could not cope could turn it into a ‘ reporting to the boss at the manhole ’ game . |
| 6 | The British figured pottery took the form of colour-coated drinking beakers , the earliest products dating to the second half of the second century . |
| 7 | Aggregate proceeds realised in the first half of 1992 from the sale amounted to C$83.2 million , yielding a profit of C$38 million . |
| 8 | The school visits made in the second half of Year Two are devoted to the teaching of reading and writing . |
| 9 | Those Roebuck penalties apart , the only other scores from the Australians came in the first half , when strapping winger Damien Smith barged his way through two tackles to notch the game 's only try . |
| 10 | But Rovers are still fifth in the Premier League , eight points behind Norwich , and have reached the Coca-Cola Cup quarter-finals — ideally placed for an honours drive in the second half of the season . |
| 11 | A survey by Jordans has found that the number of companies created in the first half of this year was 3.1% lower than the same period last year . |
| 12 | In addition , there was a strong tendency for the remaining pauses to occur in the first half of a clause rather than the second half . |
| 13 | About three-quarters of voluntary charities established in the second half of the nineteenth century were evangelical in inspiration , including such charities as Barnardo 's and the YMCA . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , the pace of adjustment in trade imbalances slowed in the second half of last year as the impact of the dollar 's depreciation started to taper off and Japan 's capital-goods exporters got into top gear . |
| 15 | Figures produced by the Council for Mortgage Lenders suggest that of the 36,610 properties repossessed in the first half of this year 45 per cent were voluntary , in the sense that they did not involve a court order . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is important to realise that it is these eggs deposited in the first half of the grazing season from April to June , which give rise to the potentially dangerous populations of L3 from July to October . |
| 18 | United 's problems started in the first half when Brentford went ahead with a freak a fluke goal from Gary Blissett … that knocked the stuffing out of them … |
| 19 | Many things point to the second half of August . |
| 20 | They are likely to be beset with other major changes associated with the second half of life . |
| 21 | The judicial changes implemented in the first half of the nineteenth century represented a break with many eighteenth-century practices . |
| 22 | But operating profits improved in the second half and the company can take some credit for the reduction in gearing to just 5 p.c . |
| 23 | One nil to Leicester City eleven minutes gone in the second half . |
| 24 | But it hardly looked a bet as the Reds struggled in the first half in face of fluent football , much of which was inspired by Chelsea player manager Glenn Hoddle . |
| 25 | Prices fell throughout the first half of 1990 due largely to the anticipated failure of the Association of Tin Producing Countries ( ATPC ) to attain by December 1990 its target of cutting by 6,000 tonnes its world stockpile , reported in February to have totalled 43,200 tonnes . |
| 26 | The three Portuguese pharmaceutical wholesalers acquired in the first half of 1992 made their first contribution , but disposing of the nappy-making business cost UniChem £2.4 million below the line . |
| 27 | This led to restructuring costs , including redundancies and closures and other one-time charges totalling approximately twenty million dollars , of which approximately eighteen million dollars came in the second half and a very large portion of that in the last quarter of the year . |
| 28 | The Spartans however maintained their composure and with only seconds remaining in the first half were rewarded with a T.D . |
| 29 | The two sides also agreed that elections scheduled for the second half of September 1992 would be conducted on a basis of proportional representation and that the post-election regime would be " semi-presidential " , with the president serving a five-year mandate , renewable for three terms . |
| 30 | Seen purely through the eyes of a bomber captain , the year 1942 saw the awakening of the " sleeping giant " , but although no dramatic results ensued in the first half of the year save the " 1,000-Plan " ( surely the most well-conceived confidence trick of the entire war ) hope for the future was clearly manifest . |