Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] the first half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forward sales for completion in the first half of this year are sufficient to meet internal targets , Mr Maunders said . |
| 2 | The profits to be made out of wine in the first half of the century encouraged substantial farmers to let out their outlying fields , landowners and municipalities their hitherto unproductive wastes , on rabassa morta — a lease of land based on the life of the vine and intended to bring bad land into cultivation . |
| 3 | Authors of A Secret World of Sex with a history of parenthood in the first half of the century . |
| 4 | If it spins out of control in the first half of the period , the batteries could run down and put it beyond recovery , says Alan Harris , a ROSAT physicist based in Munich . |
| 5 | In the worst of conditions , Gloucester were desperate to win and they made sure of victory in the first half , when Martin Roberts kicked them into a 6-0 lead with 2 penalties . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't often associate the word passion with us , ’ said Luton 's manager , David Pleat , afterwards , ‘ but I thought we played with a lot of passion in the first half . ’ |
| 7 | Throughout Brazil death squads operating against " marginal " members of society in the first half of 1989 killed at least 82 street children and adolescents , according to a survey conducted by IBASE , an independent research institute , and the National Street Children 's Movement welfare organization . |
| 8 | This area was the world 's main source of copper in the first half of the 19th century . |
| 9 | Comparison between this last work , with its highly charged and colourful imagery , and Avitus of Vienne 's work on chastity , which approaches the same subject through an examination of his own family , reveals a vast difference in the imagination of the two writers , and does suggest that despite the continuities , there had been a sharp change of taste in the first half of the sixth century . |
| 10 | Ferguson admitted : ‘ We showed a wee bit of nervousness in the first half , the sort of anxieties that were there when we were three down against Everton . ’ |
| 11 | We did have all the posession without SOUNDING like there were any chances of note in the first half . |
| 12 | During the determined drive against Dissent in the first half of the 1680s , government directives were issued to judges , magistrates , constables and churchwardens requiring them to enforce the penal laws strictly . |
| 13 | The right wing coalition parties , RPR and UDF , are expected to triumph at the French legislative elections due to take place at the end of this month but , regardless of who wins , the French economy is set to go into recession in the first half of this year with even the most optimistic forecasters predicting zero growth . |
| 14 | It follows earlier work by the investigator into industry during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | Similarly , the Wallabies were unable to play with continuity in the first half of the Second Test at Ballymore because of a string of penalties but were finally able to chain together some magical passages of play . |
| 16 | This was a very even match with both goals coming under pressure during the first half . |
| 17 | In Guatemala , economic growth went into reverse in the first half of the 1980s . |
| 18 | Any slower rate , as for example in the first half of the eighteenth century , allowed real wages to rise . |
| 19 | Stanley kept in contention in the first half of the game but came to grief on the 11th end when they dropped a five . |
| 20 | Group profit before tax for the first half of 1990 was £57.5 million , an increase of 2% . |
| 21 | London & Metropolitan further reduced its losses before tax in the first half of this year from £14.96m to £4.44m . |
| 22 | If this were the case , the drop in population in the first half of the period could have been deeper and the subsequent recovery slower than existing replacement figures suggest . |
| 23 | Most economists believe that the tighter squeeze on the economy would now lead to a more rapid deceleration in inflation in the first half of next year than had been expected before yesterday 's base rate increase . |
| 24 | Profits eased back from £15.1m to £14.7m before taxation in the first half as turnover stagnated at £98.8m . |
| 25 | Wednesday were twice in trouble in the first half — Woods doing well to tip over a Marcus Marin shot , and Nigel Worthington clearing a Witeczek header off the line . |
| 26 | Every qualified projection of climate change and population growth indicates a crisis which will grow in seriousness through the first half of the twenty-first century . |
| 27 | Many if not most of them had doubled in size during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The hiatus between North and South is most directly shown in terms of trends in employment over the first half of the 1980s . |
| 30 | The dominant approaches in psychology in the first half of this century were summarised by Kammerer in 1940 as follows : Allen and Pearson ( 1928 ) had concluded , on the basis of case studies , that : Whilst the Adlerian Rudolf Dreikurs argued in 1948 that : Since then individual psychology and its therapeutically oriented offshoots have continued in this vein , and debated the degree and nature of pathology supposed to follow , directly or indirectly , from impairment . |