Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] half [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Volkskammer approved on July 22 a budget for the second half of 1990 . |
| 2 | The budget for the first half of 1918 had been estimated at 17.6 milliard roubles expenditure , but revenue at only 2.8 milliard . |
| 3 | But what the District continued to seek was the 90% grant which the WEA 's national negotiators had raised unsuccessfully with the Ministry in 1954 and early 1955 : this goal became a recurrent theme of District meetings and literature through the second half of the decade . |
| 4 | The economy made good progress during the first half of 1990 , with GNP growth of 1.5 per cent , a reduction in the budget deficit , a noticeable improvement in the trade balance and a fall in inflation to 8 per cent from around 25 per cent in 1989 . |
| 5 | Until vernacular opera made progress during the second half of the eighteenth century , ‘ opera ’ was almost synonymous with Italian opera from one end of Europe to the other . |
| 6 | Losses during the final quarter were substantially lower at $2.3m ( 1991 : $22.2m loss ) and produced a deficit at the year end down by two thirds from $75.6m to $25.4m , reflecting a reduced level of major fire damage during the second half of the year . |
| 7 | If a marriage is to survive as a healthy and beneficial partnership for the second half of life , these remembered wrongs must be dealt with . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | On the negative side press reports indicated that the cost of the programme during the first half of 1990 had been a massive rise in unemployment ( from an official 6,000 at the end of 1989 to 568,000 ) ; a 30 per cent fall in output ; a 25 per cent drop in industrial sales in the first quarter ( in comparison with the same period in 1989 ) ; and an estimated 30 per cent drop in living standards , as real incomes slumped by around 35 per cent and 90 per cent of prices were freed ( following the abolition of subsidies ) to find their market level . |
| 10 | Forces loyal to Aoun engaged in another major confrontation during the first half of 1990 when they fought for control of Christian East Beirut against Samir Geaga 's Lebanese Forces ( LF ) militia . |
| 11 | Housing market analyst John Wriglesworth of stockbrokers Phillips & Drew forecast prices would rise 5 p.c. during the second half of this year — cancelling the 5 p.c. fall during the last 12 months . |
| 12 | It follows earlier work by the investigator into industry during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | The intra-Christian fighting of the first half of 1990 did not result in any tangible changes in territorial control over the enclave ; the LF maintained control of Jounieh and Jubail areas to the north of Beirut as well as the East Beirut quarters of Ashrafieh and Karantina , while Aoun held on to the area around the Baabda Presidential palace , where he himself was based , and around Ras al Metn and the southern entrances to East Beirut . |
| 14 | There 'd been pink wine , Rose Anjou 1969 on the label , celebrating the completion of the first half of his father 's book on the shore lark . |
| 15 | In Wordsworth 's note to this section of his poem — which also deals with improved roads and canals , and proffers hope that the new processes will bring ultimate good — he compares his work with that of a poet of the first half of the eighteenth century , John Dyer : |
| 16 | As Chlodio 's son , Merovech must therefore be a figure of the second half of the fifth century . |
| 17 | The concept of a constitutional amendment as a means of returning to fiscal probity had gathered momentum throughout the first half of 1992 . |
| 18 | Following the example of the Collings , the divergence of type was continued by the Booth family of Killesby and Warlaby , Yorkshire , who in 1790 began to breed the Teeswater for fleshiness ( and were still doing so in 1919 ) , and Thomas Bates of Kirklevington in Yorkshire , born in 1775 , who bred for milk , both families making full use of Colling stock in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | Both terms help to capture the sharp rise in inward investment in the second half of the 1980s . |
| 20 | Before entering into a discussion of the reasons for the decline of the organized networks , and of the patterns of cattle theft in the first half of the twentieth century , 1 shall first discuss in some detail the administrative policies which affected cattle stealing in its heyday . |
| 21 | This coincides with conditions which are favourable to the development of the free-living stages of Ostertagia spp. and so infective larvae accumulate during the winter to cause clinical problems or production loss in the second half of the winter ; arrested larval development occurs at the end of the winter or early spring . |
| 22 | That follows the news today that Caird , the company planning to build the controversial incinerator , have made a large pre-tax loss in the first half of this year . |
| 23 | In order to harmonize value added tax rates within the EC , VAT on items such as flowers , building land and artworks was increased ( a move expected to raise an extra F2,000 million in revenue in the second half of 1991 ) ; VAT on cars would be reduced to 18.6 per cent from Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 24 | In view of the rapid drop in morale in the first half of 1944 — with a short interruption in the first half of June — and the evidently growing unpopularity of the Nazi regime , the registered popular response to news of the plot against Hitler appears surprising . |
| 25 | But Zimbabwe 's example , together with the hope that new seeds might make a difference to humid parts of the continent in the first half of the 1990s ( and to the Sahel in the second half of the decade ) , at least give us something to work for . |
| 26 | CENTRAL TO THE FIRST REFURBISHED ‘ Denon ’ Savoy release are five discs devoted to Charlie Parker ( 1920–1955 ) — ‘ core repertoire ’ for all enthusiasts of jazz in the second half of the 1940s , from whence all these recordings ( if not the actual compilations ) come . |
| 27 | Agrarian reform was put into practice in the second half of the 1960s with the passing of a law , which made it possible to expropriate estates of over 80 hectares and they began by taking over the most economically inefficient . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | These processes participate in the building up of the ego and super-ego and prepare the ground for the onset of the Oedipus complex in the second half of the first year ( 1975 : 2 ) . |
| 30 | A second major influence which has had a dramatic effect in the second half of the century has been the educational approach . |