Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the figure rose in the latter half of the year as the Gulf crisis drove up oil prices , the growing recession in November and a fall in the volume of oil imports saw the deficit fall to $9,700 million , and to $6,300 million in December . |
| 2 | And as you said , really some of the football played in the first half was quite delightful was n't it ? |
| 3 | The seller was held liable under section 13 , since the car consisted of the rear half of a 1961 car and the front half of an earlier model . |
| 4 | This penal optimism reigned throughout the first half of this century ( Bailey , 1987 ) . |
| 5 | Is it possible to tell us how your advertising revenue performed in the first half on your Westminster Press and F T and whether you 've experienced any improvements in sits vac advertising since the end of the first half ? |
| 6 | A change came in the second half of the 1370s , when there was a sharp drop in prices at a time when wages continued to rise , and from 1377 until the middle of the 1390s the Phelps Brown index shows a markedly higher level of real wages . |
| 7 | Wrigley and Schofield have shown that between 1650–99 and 1800–49 the age at first marriage for women fell by 3·1 years ; most of the fall occurred during the second half of the eighteenth century and it was most apparent in industrial communities . |
| 8 | Sun said in the first half it shipped 28,000 Sparcstation 10s including 1,500 Model 41s . |
| 9 | ‘ Once the Springboks tired , the tide turned in the second half . |
| 10 | ‘ I am very proud of what he and the rest of the team did in the second half when we were down to ten men , ’ said Smith . |
| 11 | The Widnes tale of woe continued in the second half , when Tony Myler was unable to hold Pyke 's pass and Turner intercepted to give Thorniley a second try . |
| 12 | The best chance Town had in the first half came from this corner and it came from skipper Colin Calderwood . |
| 13 | This cash outflow occurred in the first half of the year . |
| 14 | Many plan targets were not met , however , as industrial output fell in the second half of the year . |
| 15 | Er the bank manager lived at the top half . |
| 16 | Winter visitors disperse quite rapidly in April and May , and little through passage in spring is shown by the counts in Fig. 2 , except in 1973 and 1974 when a marked movement occurred in the second half of February . |
| 17 | This was n't sufficient to make up the ground lost in the first half and the outcome for the year as a whole , you now see . |
| 18 | As in many other countries , popular demands for the introduction of multiparty democracy grew in the first half of 1990 . |
| 19 | It has been many years since the proud Fruithill Park outfit languished in the bottom half of the division after only three games , which is the case this season . |
| 20 | The pace relented in the second half with neither keeper being tested , and indeed Pegasus 's Mary Bowden had a relatively easy game as her defence blotted out everything Portadown fired at them . |
| 21 | Our clear frustration showed in the second half and we are as disappointed as our fans . |
| 22 | The furious pace continued in the second half with play sweeping from end to end without either keeper being tested . |
| 23 | United 's goal came in the first half … top marks for winger Max Nicholson … he kept control … kept his head and then smashed it home … low and hard … |
| 24 | The conflagration began in the lower half of the square at the point where the houses are set back a little from the pavement . |