Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] in the first half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six new Homebase stores were opened in the first half with a further new store and distribution depot to opened in the current six months . |
| 2 | Others , whose teenage years were spent in the first half of the Seventies , grew up with a corrupt mixture of Sixties heroes ( Jimi Hendrix , Simon and Garfunkel , The Rolling Stones , Procul Harum ) and Seventies efflorescences ( Led Zeppelin , David Bowie , The Carpenters , Elton John , the original Genesis with Peter Gabriel ) . |
| 3 | But while seven new licence sales were signed in the first half , this dropped to only two in the second due to currency turmoil , recession and political uncertainty in mainland Europe . |
| 4 | Almost four million people in England and Wales were summonsed in the first half of this year for failing to pay . |
| 5 | Over 300,000 blue whales were killed in the first half of the century and despite 30 years of protection have not yet recovered . |
| 6 | Two Swiss Red Cross workers taken hostage in Lebanon in October 1989 were released in the first half of August . |
| 7 | The breadth of the audi alteram partem principle was limited in the first half of this century . |
| 8 | Chinyou , who had been United 's best player on the day , was booked in the first half and he limped off just after the break , and his departure was to prove a turning point . |
| 9 | Anderson was booked in the first half for bringing down Marin on a night when the Germans again showed their propensity for going down theatrically under straightforward challenges . |
| 10 | But Jolosa was booked in the first half for kicking goalie Mark Davies . |
| 11 | He was booked in the first half for having a go at Whelan , and did a few other challenges worthy of his bad name . |
| 12 | The AMU Presidential Council , composed of the heads of the member states , was chaired in the first half of 1990 by President Ben Ali of Tunisia , who was succeeded at the end of June by Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid who in turn was succeeded on Dec. 31 by the Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al-Kadhafi . |
| 13 | What with Becky Sieff crusading the country and a succession of charity dinners and film and theatre premieres , close on £300,000 was raised in the first half of 1939 . |
| 14 | However , reference to Figure 2.2 indicates that the BAT share price outperformed the market during the 1980s , although this outperformance was concentrated in the first half of the decade . |
| 15 | Construction of this was begun in the first half of the sixteenth century by the Donatory Captain Simão Gonçalves da Câmara . |
| 16 | Successful post-war reconstruction was overtaken in the first half of the 1980s by economic depression and the European unemployment crisis . |