Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] the first half " in BNC.
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| 1 | The budget deficit in the first half of 1992 had reached 7.5 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) , rising sharply in July and August ; " substantial tightening of the budget policy " was to be expected . |
| 2 | Pham told delegates that there had been a rapid increase in export turnover during the first half of 1990 , but that the production of export goods was threatened by the major socio-economic changes in Eastern Europe , which had forced some countries to cancel contracts , and that " the dilatory payment and overdue debts to the export goods manufacturers fail to encourage the production of export goods " . |
| 3 | Like many players of that era , Jack 's footballing career was badly restricted by the war , but he was available to help us to our regional championship of the 3rd Division South in the first half of 1945–46 while , upon the resumption of League Football in 1946–47 , he shone as a half-back of real quality in a none too great Palace team and his performances quickly drew attention from several 1st Division sides . |
| 4 | The company plans to add Motif support in the first half of 1994 and communications support via TCP/IP by the second half of 1994 . |
| 5 | The company plans to add Motif support in the first half of ‘ 94 and comms support via TCP/IP by the second-half of 1994 . |
| 6 | Manager Frank Gray perhaps had a point after the game when he said that luck did n't smile kindly on his side , but it must also be said that Quakers did not utilise the strong wind in the same forthright manner as the home side in the first half . |
| 7 | This has been reinforced by recent changes in international migration , in particular involving a major surge in net inward movement to the South East in the first half of the 1980s . |
| 8 | After several decades of charting children 's vocabulary growth in the first half of the twentieth century , researchers began to focus on children 's acquisition of grammar-the rules for combining words into the sequences permissible in a language like English , e.g. , the big boy but not *the boy big , He brought the book , but not *He brought . |
| 9 | In mid-April the Luxembourg government , which held the EC Council presidency for the first half of 1991 , presented a 95-page draft treaty document focusing on political union . |
| 10 | It was also given in-depth coverage on television and radio that evening , with News at Ten running it as the lead story in the first half of the programme and coming back to it again in the second . |
| 11 | The Japanese surplus fell to below $50,000 million in the second half of 1989 from over $80,000 million a year earlier , and the West German surplus in the second half of 1989 was also slightly below its record level in the first half of the year . |
| 12 | That trend is demonstrated in a sales bonanza which saw 142,000 people in the UK opting for a diesel car in the first half of this year . |
| 13 | Santer visited the Soviet Union on Oct. 21-24 , 1990 , shortly before the Grand Duchy took over the presidency of the European Community Council for the first half of 1991 . |
| 14 | It blamed the rise in fuel prices on the threefold increase in fuel consumption in the first half of the year . |
| 15 | Precise figures for this trend are difficuIt to obtain , but one estimate suggests that around 300 000 jobs may have been added to the service sector in the first half of the 1980s ( Rajan , 1987 ) . |
| 16 | According to the Economic Bulletin for Europe published on Nov. 23 , 1989 , by the UN Economic Commission for Europe ( ECE ) , there was a significant fall in output growth in the first half of 1989 in the member countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA or COMECON ) . |
| 17 | Tranmere wasted a good deal of splendid midfield work in the first half with long-range speculative shots into the stand . |
| 18 | This was used to make comma shaped charms ( magatama ) of the kind placed with burials of the Tomb Period during the first half of the first millennium A.D. both in Japan itself and in Korea . |
| 19 | Engineering employment in the first half of nineteen ninety three is estimated to be a hundred and twenty thousand fewer than twelve months earlier and it is forecast to fall another forty five thousand in the next twelve months . |
| 20 | Steven Husk , strategic sales director for Borland InterBase Europe , said the company will release Quattro Pro , dBase , Object Vision and Borland C++ SQL links to the InterBase database in the first half of 1993 . |
| 21 | The growth of the bill mountain in the first half of the 1980s was due largely to the policy of overfunding the PSBR — that is , selling more public sector debt to the non-bank private sector than was needed to match the size of the PSBR . |
| 22 | The game finished 1-1 with Peter Shearer scoring for the league side in the first half and then with just 7 minutes to go , Town teenager Christer Warren , a Bournemouth boy would you believe , scored the equaliser . |
| 23 | But it was the longbow , with its range of up to 200 metres , its power of penetration which was to compel the development of more effective plate armour in the first half of the fourteenth century , its rate of fire which was easily twice that of the crossbow , and which , held vertically , ( earlier bows and crossbows were held horizontally ) could be aimed more accurately along the line of the bow , which was to give the archer , above all those serving in English armies , so important a role to play in every form of war at this time . |
| 24 | All three components had a hand in producing the marked reduction in annual growth rate between the first half of the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s , but the dominant feature was the fall in the number of births . |
| 25 | The Tsunamis should get delivered in short order after that , but the multi-processing Dragons are expected to be in beta longer than usual and wo n't go into a delivery cycle until the first half of ‘ 93 . |
| 26 | The cut was due in part to a recent series of pipeline ruptures and oilfield accidents and to a 4 per cent drop in Soviet oil production in the first half of 1990 ( as compared with the same period in 1989 ) . |
| 27 | Yes in the F A Cup fourth round third replay between Leeds United and Arsenal at Elland Road , it was the visitors who took a two goal lead in the first half . |
| 28 | ‘ I sha n't be able to watch , ’ said Jannie , as the film sequence in the first half of John 's programme unreeled meaninglessly in front of her . |
| 29 | Referee Neil Midgley ( Bolton ) , who retires in a fortnight 's time , pulled a calf muscle in the first half and was replaced by senior linesman Graham Bradbury ( York . ) |
| 30 | A letter by King Areus of Sparta to the Jews , which would date the discovery of the family connection in the first half of the third century B.C. , was probably forged to provide a background for the authentic correspondence of the second century ( cf. 12.7 ) . |