Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the first half " in BNC.
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| 31 | The new organizations catering for this were to be economically more efficient and culturally more bland than the popular movements of the first half of the century . |
| 32 | It was the failure of this attempt which led to the gradual expansion of the regular police into rural areas in the first half of the twentieth century . |
| 33 | Inflation , which fell in the second half of 1989 , rose in some countries in the first half of 1990 , was anticipated to increase further in 1990 due in part to oil price increases . |
| 34 | In a report published on January 1990 , the Bank for International Settlements ( BIS ) in Basel noted that banks in the major industrialized countries had significantly increased lending to east European countries in the first half of 1989 . |
| 35 | Sainsbury opened 14 new supermarkets in the first half . |
| 36 | I was a little confused at one point — after one of Leeds smooth silky passing movements in the first half , which ended in a shot that went just over the bar I think , most of the ground broke into applause . |
| 37 | An increase in imports in the first half of 1992 caused the motor industry 's trade deficit to more than double to £1.37bn ( v £617m ) . |
| 38 | The total number of buyout and buy-in transactions in the first half of 1992 , at 301 completions , was virtually identical to that in the same period in 1991 , although the total value of transactions rose by 40% to £1.65bn . |
| 39 | Redundancy costs for the first half of three point two million , nought point seven million less than ninety two . |
| 40 | Yeah , the payroll costs for the first half of last year were seventy three point eight million the payroll costs for the first half of the review were sixty eight point eight |
| 41 | Yeah , the payroll costs for the first half of last year were seventy three point eight million the payroll costs for the first half of the review were sixty eight point eight |
| 42 | Another notable resident then was the Honourable Thomas Walpole , the second son of Lord Walpole of Wotterton , Norfolk , and the younger brother of the great Sir Robert Walpole , who had been Prime Minister for twenty-two years during the first half of the eighteenth century . |
| 43 | It is the Holy Spirit who so signally lays his mark of blessing upon the preaching of the good news to those untouchables ( from the traditional Jewish viewpoint ) the Samaritans in the first half of Acts chapter 8 , and the eunuch in the second part of that chapter . |
| 44 | You know I thought the keeper did ever so well , you know , made a couple of good saves in the first half and just changed the game for us . |
| 45 | But referee Mike Reed , who had turned down two Manchester penalty appeals in the first half , refused to sanction a retake . |
| 46 | Certainly Freud was critical of the religious versions of reality which were generally accepted among the middle classes in the first half of the twentieth century in Europe and America . |
| 47 | Many élite families made fortunes in the first half of the nineteenth century and then invested their wealth in agriculture , usually in plantations . |
| 48 | THE number of bankruptcies in the first half of the year soared by 60 per cent , while company failures rose by just over 8 per cent . |
| 49 | The committee recommended the convening of a national conference of delegates from various social , political and religious groupings and of individuals in the first half of 1991 . |
| 50 | We have to go to Livy and to minor sources for evidence of the conflicts inside the Roman ruling class and between Romans and allies in the first half of the second century B.C. Polybius does not seem to have noticed the feuds inside Rome which accompanied what may appear to us the most uncontroversial aspect of the Roman expansion in Liguria and in Piedmont . |
| 51 | New Zealand Test centre Kevin Iro — on his Leeds debut — showed his class with two splendid tries in the first half . |
| 52 | Acads ' back play could have been more direct , but at least they contributed two cracking tries in the first half , the first by Simon Burns , with help from Ford Swanson , who then helped himself to five points as he finished of a Rowen Shepherd break . |
| 53 | The choice of a reference implementation for Application Linking is expected this fall and should be deployed as a standard feature of Unix desktop applications by the first half of 1994 . |
| 54 | The technology , which is intended to enable users tp link , transfer and share objects between documents created by different Unix desktop applications and between Unix and Microsoft Corp Windows applications , is intended to become a standard feature of Unix desktop applications by the first half of 1994 . |
| 55 | The technology , which is supposed to let users link , transfer and share objects between documents created by different Unix desktop applications and between Unix and Microsoft Corp Windows applications , is intended to become a standard feature of Unix desktop applications by the first half of 1994 . |
| 56 | Increased demand for its road , rail and sea container fleets during the first half helped boost the latest figures . |
| 57 | Yesterday it announced figures for the first half of 1989 so late in the day that the London market had mostly packed up and gone home by the time the screens showed that profits had risen from Ir £109m to Ir £121m and earnings were up from 21.7p to 25.4p basic . |
| 58 | Figures for the first half of the year from the Building Societies Association showed that only around 54,360 people were in arrears with their mortgages . |
| 59 | The interim p&l account , balance sheet and cash flow statement therefore do not include comparative figures for the first half of 1991 ; the full year 1991 figures are shown , however . |
| 60 | HGCA figures for the first half of the 1992–93 season show Ipswich exporting ten per cent of all British wheat . |