Example sentences of "until the second half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Patten said privatisation of the Property Services Agency , which builds and furnishes Government offices , will not be practicable until the second half of 1992 . |
| 2 | Now such respected independent institutions as the Fraser of Allander Institute are forecasting that recovery will not arrive until the second half of the year . |
| 3 | Denmead opened the scoring through Chris King and they held on until the second half when Campbell Wilson equalised for Good Sports . |
| 4 | It will include an extension mechanism , and QuickTime , AppleScript and Apple Open Collaboration Environment are being converted for the environment , but are not expected to be ready until the second half of next year . |
| 5 | It faces several more years of economic self-restraint , with no real easing in prospect until the second half of the 1990s . |
| 6 | IBM Corp is to license a version of its CICS/6000 CICS overlay for the Encina transaction processing monitor to Hewlett-Packard Co , which says it will offer it on its HP9000 Precision Architecture RISC-based Unix machines — but conversion of the IBM product will not be a simple task — it wo n't be ready to ship until the second half of 1993 . |
| 7 | Some princes did not employ them at all until the second half of the century . |
| 8 | For centuries the continual struggle of ordinary country folk to harvest an income to keep them and their families above starvation level meant that they were always prepared to swallow their pride and go , cap in hand , to the gentry for a few vital coppers The same philosophy spawned the hiring fairs ( which continued until the second half of the century ) when the ‘ spare ’ children of rural ( and sometimes urban ) families , not required for work at home , were sent to stand at appointed places where prospective employers could examine and interrogate them checking their limbs for strength and making sure they were properly subservient There was n't a deal of difference , fundamentally , between hiring fairs ( as immortalized by Thomas Hardy in Far From the Madding Crowd and the weekly cattle auctions held in market towns . |
| 9 | It meant the disappearance from the line of battle of every European fleet of the converted merchantmen which had remained so important in wars at sea until the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 10 | Firstly , all students can defer their choice of specialisation until the second half of the year . |
| 11 | Not until the second half of the sixteenth century , when there was a desire to combat Spanish power and to tap the resources of the Indies , did an English enterprise to North America again become attractive . |
| 12 | Thus , if Brazil was already the major producer of coffee , the state of São Paulo , which is predominantly identified with this crop in our century , as yet harvested only about a quarter of the production of Rio and at most a fifth of the entire country ; about half the production of Indonesia and only about twice as much as Ceylon , where the development of tea-culture was still so negligible that exports were not separately registered until the second half of the 1870s , and then in tiny quantities . |
| 13 | Oxford left it until the second half for their equaliser . |
| 14 | The second goal amazingly did n't come until the second half , courtesy of a goalkeeping lapse from Devine . |
| 15 | They were pale Reds who did not wake up until the second half . |