Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [num ord] half [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Avoid over-spending in the first half of the year and set aside as much as you possibly can in the event of any tax demands or unexpected large financial outlays later . |
| 2 | He can not possibly have played better despite tiring in the second half of a patchy but exciting final . |
| 3 | He/she must not only offer an accurate description of the death-like oppressiveness of the capitalist world as it is developing in the first half of the twentieth century , but must also depict accurately and without facile romanticism or glib sentimentality , the angry and determined political struggle of men and women refusing to acquiesce to the oppressive forces of capitalist society . |
| 4 | Although conditions were hard the industry was booming in the second half of the 19th century and there were regular jobs for most people . |
| 5 | The street is closed by the Black Tower , part of the castle 's fortification system dating from the first half of the 12C . |
| 6 | Turquoise was also present among the grave goods of Fu Hao , consort of a Shang king , in a tomb dating from the first half of the twelfth century B.C. One of several nephrite halberd blades was hafted in a bronze mount studded with turquoise inlay . |
| 7 | It is one of the capital 's earliest Gothic buildings , dating from the second half of the 13C , and is one of the earliest surviving synagogues in Europe . |
| 8 | Definitely an acquired taste was a clunky Spanish colonial gilt-metal mounted mother-of-pearl , tortoiseshell , pewter , ebonised and parcel-gilt cabinet made for a viceroy of Peru , and dating from the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 9 | Several of Sisley 's early paintings dating from the second half of the 1860s were accepted for display in the official Salon , but during the 1870s he began to paint in a fully fledged Impressionist style characterized by pure colours applied with broken brush strokes and bright light . |
| 10 | Charles 's charters include 19 grants ( 15 of them dating from the second half of the reign ) of rights over markets , often specified as weekly markets rather than annual fairs . |
| 11 | The British figured pottery took the form of colour-coated drinking beakers , the earliest products dating to the second half of the second century . |
| 12 | If in doubt , keep two provisional subjects going for the first half of the first term — and then drop the one that appeals to you the less . |
| 13 | NEC Corp expects personal computer shipments in 1993-94 to increase by 10% to 1.37m units as a result of the government 's increased spending on computers for schools and public institutions : according to Reuter , NEC sees its personal computer sales rising in the second half of the fiscal when public institutions start to introduce the machines ; in the year to March , NEC 's personal computer shipments were down by 5% . |
| 14 | Beginning in the first half of 1993 , SunLink ISDN , certified in France , Germany , the UK , Japan and the US , will be offered to all Sparcstation 10 users for free . |
| 15 | There are two reasons for this : first , it provides a complete and convincing display of the art of drawing in the second half of the fifteenth century , with outstanding exhibits lent by major collections worldwide . |
| 16 | And in the Oxon Senior Cup third round ; Peppard five , Malborough one — Peppard 's goals ; after ten minutes , Sid Grover , fifteen minutes , Chris Maxted , twenty five minutes , Dave Smith , seventy five minutes , Dave Smith getting a second goal , eighty minutes , Kevin Watkins and Malborough 's only goal coming in the second half through Darrell Simpson ; so Peppard who do so well in the Oxford Senior Cup , Peppard five , Malborough one . |
| 17 | Comrades led 2–1 until the 79th minute , their two goals coming in the first half from David Eddis against one from a Dean Gordon own goal but United hit back late in the game . |
| 18 | Oil slicks in Alaska and elsewhere helped Vikoma , the group 's environmental cleaning equipment manufacturer , which specialises in separating oil from water , and although Salvesen brick , is suffering in the second half from a 30 to 40 per cent cut in demand as housebuilding nosedives , the first half was prosperous and full year trading profit should be on a level with 1988 , says finance director Brian Fidler . |
| 19 | Inflation rose in 1990 to 30 per cent , increasing during the first half of 1991 to 36 per cent , fuelled by price liberalization . |
| 20 | As Geoffrey Holmes has suggested , the demographic and economic underpinnings of stability were emerging in the second half of the seventeenth century — a stagnant population , years of agricul-tural plenty and a more buoyant economy meant that there was not the same pressure on resources and scarcity of food and employment which had caused such social distress and serious unrest in the late-Elizabethan and early-Stuart period . |
| 21 | I refer to the rapid decline of the use of walnut in English furniture making in the first half of the 18th century . |
| 22 | Lime burning had expanded considerably at Halling in the second half of the eighteenth century . |
| 23 | The move away from teaching by copying in the second half of this century and the lack of space for exhibiting the works has meant that the collection has been largely hidden . |
| 24 | They 're investing in the first half in that second half . |
| 25 | Anglo-Norman literature composed in what became an increasingly distinctive Anglo-Norman dialect of French was flourishing by the second half of the twelfth century . |
| 26 | The First Test in Sydney was a rusty performance with the backline 's cohesion missing during the first half before the dominance of the Wallaby forwards at the scrum and line-out took control in the second half to enable them to pile on 20 points and quickly reverse the 9–7 half-time deficit . |
| 27 | The medical profession ignored family planning in the first half of the century , only speaking to condemn it . |
| 28 | A similar deal has now been struck with Digital Equipment Corp , and the manufacturing software is available immediately for the Ultrix version of Unix with support for DEC 's OSF/1 following in the second half of the year . |
| 29 | A similar deal has now been struck with Digital Equipment Corp , and the manufacturing software is available immediately for the Ultrix version of Unix with support for DEC 's OSF/1 following in the second half of the year . |
| 30 | STRONG demand from other segments of the construction market left Hewden Stuart , Britain 's largest plant hire group , virtually untouched by current problems in housebuilding in the first half of the year . |