Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked to West Germany for support , holding two meetings with Konrad Adenauer during the second half of 1958 . |
| 2 | In October the government announced that CFC production in West Germany during the first half of 1990 had been reduced to 42,820 tonnes ( as compared with 112,000 tonnes during the whole of 1986 ) . |
| 3 | King Hussein visited Iceland , Canada , the USA , France and Germany during the first half of March . |
| 4 | Among the contents of Matthew 's safe there were two manuscript volumes , the journal of a certain Martin Beale who lived and worked in Natal and Cape Province during the second half of the last century . ’ |
| 5 | During an , a very intensive training and organization period in the United States during the first half of nineteen forty three , and that does sound a long time ago , er we er the Three-Ninetieth Bomb Group , under the able direction of Colonel , er arrived at Parham , right here , in July nineteen forty three . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , inflation rose for some months , and production continued to grow in all major economies except the United States during the first half of 1974 . |
| 7 | One example which comes to mind is Bransby Williams , who emulated the performances of Charles Dickens and Sir Henry Irving throughout the first half of this century . |
| 8 | Arsenal lost Danish international Jensen with a hip injury and England defender Adams in the second half but still have no real excuses . |
| 9 | A rapacious British land taxation policy was partly responsible for a series of famines in Bengal in the second half of the eighteenth century , while elsewhere in India the staple foods of the poor such as millet and pulses were displaced by the production for export of grains and commercial crops ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 79 , 84 , 86 ) . |
| 10 | A goal from Cliftonville striker Ron Manley in the first half was enough to settle this most disappointing affair ; the only consolation for Linfield is that they 're already through to the quarter-finals . |
| 11 | Despite an intensification of fighting in Kashmir in the first half of 1990 talks with India continued , with the fourth round completed in April 1991 . |
| 12 | It was even Steven in the second half , but towards the end Gloucester roared into life . |
| 13 | She told me more or less the same story as Eric — that they are reserving double the usual amount of space for Jefferson over the second half of the year . ’ |
| 14 | They were used as woven decorations to headdresses and the borders of garments found in richer graves in England during the second half of the sixth and early seventh centuries , significantly mainly in Kent . |
| 15 | In his early works he was very concerned with the problem of ‘ alienation ’ and the ‘ essence of man ’ and even in Capital it is impossible not to be moved in reading his account of conditions in England during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | Not to be outdone , Liverpool defender Steve Staunton capably filled the striking boots of Ian Rush for the second half , scoring all three goals in their 3-0 win over Wigan for an 8-2 aggregate result . |
| 17 | The rotating presidency of the Council was held by Ireland for the first half of 1990 , by Italy for the second half of 1990 , and in 1991 it was held first by Luxembourg and then by the Netherlands . |
| 18 | A resilient alliance between Protestant theology and Aristotelian philosophy , which had established itself in different parts of Europe , remained particularly strong in Scotland during the first half of the seventeenth century . |
| 19 | Modigliani left Nice for nearby Cagnes in the first half of April . |
| 20 | Mr Mubarak said he had accepted an invitation from President Bill Clinton to visit Washington in the first half of April . |
| 21 | There 's no doubt it 's going to be difficult for us but if we play for 90 minutes the same way we did against Cork in the first half last week , we 'll return with something from the game . ’ |
| 22 | Although essentially the poor man 's housecow in Ireland , the breed was exported to England in the second half of the nineteenth century to become the rich man 's pet , favoured for its dainty good looks . |
| 23 | So whereas he had treated with the pro-English party in Scotland in the first half of 1543 , in 1544 it was the pro-French faction which was uppermost in his mind . |
| 24 | United played some classy football against Millwall in the first half … they looked good for a few goals but ended with nothing … |
| 25 | They 've got ta get in there , brush and wash themselves down and come in with renewed vigour and really have a go at Blackburn in the second half . |
| 26 | These were similar to those signed with Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland in June 1990 [ see p. 37535 ] , which were expected to result in the signature of free trade agreements with EFTA in the first half of 1992 . |
| 27 | In his response , the General Secretary said ‘ Chairman and Delegates , before I move the IBOA motion , I would like to take this opportunity to place on record the debt owed by this Association to the Trade Union Movement arising from the events in the Republic of Ireland in the first half of 1992 . |
| 28 | In general the news from Washington by the first half of 1945 was moderately reassuring . |
| 29 | Manager Dick Graham brought Jackie Bannister to Selhurst Park on a free transfer from Scunthorpe United in July 1965 , having assessed this combative wing-half or full-back at close quarters when the pair were at The Hawthorns in the early 1960s , and Jackie certainly became a valued member of Palace 's 2nd Division defences under Mr Graham in the second half of that decade , missing only one game in two seasons between August 1966 and May 1968 . |
| 30 | Bill Glazier was Palace 's aptly named and superb goalkeeper throughout most of our sojourn in Division Three , 1961–64 , and he was ever-present during our praiseworthy recovery under Dick Graham in the second half of 1962–63 , then in the magnificent promotion season of 1963–64 when the number of goals conceded was easily the lowest in our Division . |