Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] half [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |
| 2 | One is that the , the impact of quotes and the other improvements coming through in the second half of the year will reduce some of that impact anyway and also that that hundred thousand pounds overspend is sig is over-skewed because the proportion of quotes work in there is actually making a , making a difference too . |
| 3 | The war went on throughout the second half of 1 168 . |
| 4 | That does not suit every executive , particularly as the growth in profits has levelled off in the second half of this year . |
| 5 | And erm , anyway , I 'm , I 'm sorry to have to tell you that but erm now we 'll get on with the second half of the meeting . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've just got to get our heads up in the second half of the season and go all out to qualify for Europe again . ’ |
| 7 | They can make a decent case that economic growth will pick up in the second half of the year . |
| 8 | an expensive miss … was followed up in the second half by an even more expensive mistake … as Tommy Mooney was presented with a chance to make it two nil … |
| 9 | A legally binding agreement to implement this 14-page political declaration was scheduled to be drawn up in the first half of 1992 . |
| 10 | Almost everybody throughout history , up to the second half of the nineteenth century , has firmly believed in the opposite — the Conscious Designer theory . |
| 11 | Following on from the second half of their previous pool game — against Nadroga — Scotland enjoyed five minutes of possession against Samoa yet could manufacture only one clear-cut chance . |
| 12 | But I mean would that is the the the sort of the thing I would like to put an em emphasis on in the first half of the term . |
| 13 | Once we have incorporated the Maastricht treaty into our law — presumably , as my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said , in the first Session of the new Parliament — we must press on in the second half of 1992 , when we have the presidency of the Community , to set out more clearly our vision of a common European future . |
| 14 | Paul came on in the second half of the game in Dublin last week and played well . |
| 15 | Bordon came out for the second half in determined mood and soon Wilson made up for a number of misses by flicking in the third goal . |
| 16 | Microsoft previewed Hermes , Windows NT 's systems management scheme , which is due out in the second half of the year , at InterOp two or three weeks ago . |
| 17 | NT for the Clipper will be out in the second half of 1993 . |
| 18 | There was little room for lesbians to be out in the first half of this century , unless of course they moved in the right literary or aristocratic circles . |
| 19 | The Report was intended as a review , giving a complete survey ( according to its prospectus ) of Chemistry and its Allied Sciences ; it was to come out in the first half of the year following that reviewed ; and it would give a faithful and ‘ whenever necessary , a complete digest of each investigation ’ in chemistry , and its applications in pharmacy , arts and manufactures . |
| 20 | If you go back erm or let's go back to the second half of the seventeenth century , that 's always a good time to go to erm when erm well it was just after the English revolution , just after the English civil war , the Charles the First had been executed . |
| 21 | She dashed clear of the control room and on to the second half of the observation gallery , thirty metres above the main executive transporter bay . |