Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] first half of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October the government announced that CFC production in West Germany during the first half of 1990 had been reduced to 42,820 tonnes ( as compared with 112,000 tonnes during the whole of 1986 ) . |
| 2 | King Hussein visited Iceland , Canada , the USA , France and Germany during the first half of March . |
| 3 | During an , a very intensive training and organization period in the United States during the first half of nineteen forty three , and that does sound a long time ago , er we er the Three-Ninetieth Bomb Group , under the able direction of Colonel , er arrived at Parham , right here , in July nineteen forty three . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , inflation rose for some months , and production continued to grow in all major economies except the United States during the first half of 1974 . |
| 5 | One example which comes to mind is Bransby Williams , who emulated the performances of Charles Dickens and Sir Henry Irving throughout the first half of this century . |
| 6 | Despite an intensification of fighting in Kashmir in the first half of 1990 talks with India continued , with the fourth round completed in April 1991 . |
| 7 | In his early works he was very concerned with the problem of ‘ alienation ’ and the ‘ essence of man ’ and even in Capital it is impossible not to be moved in reading his account of conditions in England during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | The rotating presidency of the Council was held by Ireland for the first half of 1990 , by Italy for the second half of 1990 , and in 1991 it was held first by Luxembourg and then by the Netherlands . |
| 9 | A resilient alliance between Protestant theology and Aristotelian philosophy , which had established itself in different parts of Europe , remained particularly strong in Scotland during the first half of the seventeenth century . |
| 10 | Modigliani left Nice for nearby Cagnes in the first half of April . |
| 11 | Mr Mubarak said he had accepted an invitation from President Bill Clinton to visit Washington in the first half of April . |
| 12 | So whereas he had treated with the pro-English party in Scotland in the first half of 1543 , in 1544 it was the pro-French faction which was uppermost in his mind . |
| 13 | These were similar to those signed with Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland in June 1990 [ see p. 37535 ] , which were expected to result in the signature of free trade agreements with EFTA in the first half of 1992 . |
| 14 | In his response , the General Secretary said ‘ Chairman and Delegates , before I move the IBOA motion , I would like to take this opportunity to place on record the debt owed by this Association to the Trade Union Movement arising from the events in the Republic of Ireland in the first half of 1992 . |
| 15 | In general the news from Washington by the first half of 1945 was moderately reassuring . |
| 16 | Roman Italy again provides an analogy : the roads built by people like Aemilius Lepidus in the first half of the second century physically facilitated the political and cultural unification of Italy in the course of the next 150 years . |
| 17 | Not until the enlightened work of Ramon Menendez Pidal in the first half of the twentieth century , was the figure of El Cid re-established in something like a clear light . |
| 18 | The two sides agreed to hold the next round of talks in Beijing in the first half of 1992 . |
| 19 | It is certainly true that one strand at least in a Northumbrian view of the past seems to have thought of Nechtanesmere as destroying the position of military dominance originally achieved by Eadwine in the first half of the seventh century ( HE II , 5 ) , whereas Eadwine 's ascendancy over the Britons in Wales had disappeared by the mid-630s and an overlordship of the southern English kingdoms , restored only temporarily in the late 650s , was lost long before 685 ( see above , p. 85 ) . |
| 20 | Nguyen Van Linh , the former general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam ( CPV ) , visited China during the first half of May . |
| 21 | It was impossible to discuss the idea of Arab nationalism without mentioning Palestine , because the Arab political awakening occurred in the very years of Zionist settlement in Palestine in the first half of this century . |
| 22 | The collapse of the ceasefire agreement reached in Gbadolite ( Zaire ) in June 1989 [ see p. 36726 ] was followed by a period of intense fighting between the MPLA-PT government and UNITA in the first half of 1990 , centred on the battle for control of Mavinga , a strategic UNITA base near its Jamba headquarters in the south-east of the country . |
| 23 | The catalogue essays include : ‘ Painting in Milan and Venice in the first half of the century ’ ; ‘ Aspects of collecting in nineteenth-century Naples : the portfolios ( cartiere ) of Giacinto Gigante ’ ; ‘ Diego Martelli , the Macchiaioli , and the Impressionists ’ ; and ‘ Art in Rome , the capital of Italy ’ , by a team of Italian scholars . |
| 24 | The best conjecture , backtracking the path of this cloud , is that it originated from an unobserved eruption either in Zaire in the middle of January or in the northern Pacific during the first half of January 1982 . |
| 25 | It had been predicted in a vague form by action at a distance theorist W. Weber in the first half of the nineteenth century , was predicted in a more precise way by H.A . |
| 26 | The Gnostic critique and rejection of the Creator God of the Old Testament was taken to extremes by Marcion in the first half of the second century . |
| 27 | The US in the first half of the 1980s appears to have had such a mechanism whereas in the UK the real wages of employees did not respond flexibly to high unemployment by falling . |
| 28 | Franco had allowed anti-French nationalism to flourish in Spanish Morocco in the first half of the 1950s , naïvely and carelessly confident that pressure for independence would not be a problem in the Spanish protectorate . |
| 29 | The ECE report indicated virtual stagnation in the total volume of exports from the Soviet Union and eastern Europe in the first half of 1989 owing to absolute declines in intra-COMECON trade and COMECON trade with developing countries . |
| 30 | Although a survey of Russia 's dealings with central Asia in the first half of the nineteenth century concludes that " Bukhara , Khiva , and Kokand were not primary objects of interest " , the work as a whole provides massive evidence for the view that only the problem of traversing Kazakhstan prevented the khanates from coming to the top of the imperial agenda . |