Example sentences of "be [v-ing] in the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The incoherence I think is that you ca n't ever say that anyone has lost because you do n't know what 's happening in the second and third and fourth erm batch , so I ca n't see how this system is meant to work , Mill seems to be fairly confident that it will . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Just a bit more about Camco second half is , given these little plus and minuses you 've had in the first , first half , what 's coming in the second ? |
| 5 | He is playing in the Second Division at the moment , but my priority is to get him to come to the club . ’ |
| 6 | Although conditions were hard the industry was booming in the second half of the 19th century and there were regular jobs for most people . |
| 7 | Spooked was running in the second race . |
| 8 | ‘ I remember Trevor Brooking doing it for England when he was playing in the Second Division . |