Example sentences of "[noun prp] during the [adj] 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 As Thomas ( 1963 ) wrote , people were affected by trains to some extent even in the most remote parts of England during the latter half of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth centuries .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 THE PURCHASE OF half a mile of track by Avon Valley Railway members signals the start of the railway 's long awaited southern extension and the hope that passengers will be able to steam towards Bath during the second half of 1993 .
12 Nguyen Van Linh , the former general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam ( CPV ) , visited China during the first half of May .
13 England have been in trouble twice this season , upset by Canada 's pack at Wembley and shunted alarmingly by South Africa during the first half .
14 But it spread through most of southern France during the latter half of the twelfth century .
15 The best conjecture , backtracking the path of this cloud , is that it originated from an unobserved eruption either in Zaire in the middle of January or in the northern Pacific during the first half of January 1982 .
16 There was a longer period of comparative calm in the townships of the East Rand during the second half of December than at any time in the previous five months , although during the first half of the month deaths had averaged 20 per day .
17 Infant mortality doubled in Zambia during the first half of the 1980s .
18 The first communities to engage in striking inscribed coins were the trading cities of Lydia , Ionia and Greece during the latter half of the eighth century B.C. ( fig. 39 : a , b ) .
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