Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [adj] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | One such was that at Charfield built during the first half of the 19th century . |
| 2 | Also shown are photographs of some of the more notable news happenings that occurred during the first half of the present century . |
| 3 | Wrigley and Schofield have shown that between 1650–99 and 1800–49 the age at first marriage for women fell by 3·1 years ; most of the fall occurred during the second half of the eighteenth century and it was most apparent in industrial communities . |
| 4 | Although the figure rose in the latter half of the year as the Gulf crisis drove up oil prices , the growing recession in November and a fall in the volume of oil imports saw the deficit fall to $9,700 million , and to $6,300 million in December . |
| 5 | It moved in the same half — crouched , shambling run as it had the night before , quietly , stealthily , purposefully . |
| 6 | Winter visitors disperse quite rapidly in April and May , and little through passage in spring is shown by the counts in Fig. 2 , except in 1973 and 1974 when a marked movement occurred in the second half of February . |
| 7 | This cash outflow occurred in the first half of the year . |
| 8 | On the back were the first few lines of a sketch for another painting , then scrawled across the lower half of the untreated canvas were some illegible words with numbers beside them , added up at the bottom , by the stretcher . |
| 9 | But erm we went into half time , and we were very pleased with the way things had gone , and it was just a case of trying to keep it going erm we stopped them from playing erm and then we came off the second half and everything just seemed to go wrong for us . |
| 10 | from a deliberately slow start , he went past 10 miles in around 1:25 then accelerated through the second half of the race to turn in a respectable 2:42:31 . |
| 11 | They played throughout the second half in peeved mood , allowing Blackburn to assume the dictating role with Gordon Cowans prompting from midfield and Speedie in predatory form up front . |
| 12 | United had shown far more threat in attack and deserved their interval lead , but Boro equalised with the second half only five minutes old . |
| 13 | Inflation especially in the United States , the United Kingdom , Germany and Italy , accelerated in the first half of 1990 to an average of 4.7 per cent . |
| 14 | Paul Weston scored in the first half for Stockton , but it was not until the last five minutes that Paul Bromley crossed for their second try . |
| 15 | As a result , illegitimacy and irregular marriage possibly receded in the second half of the century as working-class women sought refuge in chastity and conventional marriage . |
| 16 | Rangers had taken the lead through Sinton before Gray equalised in the second half , Gordon Durie grabbing the winner 11 minutes from time although Spurs manager Peter Shreeves admitted his team were lucky to win . |
| 17 | On being granted freedom of the guild in 1922 Llewellyn Davies singled out three campaigns , all of which came in the second half of her term of office when the guild was emerging as an influential body and could build upon the experience of the earlier struggles — the attempt to bring cooperation within the reach of the poorest , minimum wages for women employees in cooperative societies , and reforms in married women 's lives , in particular the inclusion of maternity benefit in the 1911 National Insurance Act ( Gaffin and Thoms 1983 ) . |
| 18 | This led to restructuring costs , including redundancies and closures and other one-time charges totalling approximately twenty million dollars , of which approximately eighteen million dollars came in the second half and a very large portion of that in the last quarter of the year . |
| 19 | A change came in the second half of the 1370s , when there was a sharp drop in prices at a time when wages continued to rise , and from 1377 until the middle of the 1390s the Phelps Brown index shows a markedly higher level of real wages . |
| 20 | Those Roebuck penalties apart , the only other scores from the Australians came in the first half , when strapping winger Damien Smith barged his way through two tackles to notch the game 's only try . |
| 21 | Two of them came in the first half as Bolton tore Watford to shreds . |
| 22 | United 's goal came in the first half … top marks for winger Max Nicholson … he kept control … kept his head and then smashed it home … low and hard … |
| 23 | United 's best chances came in the first half , but Barnsley gave as good as they got and went close once or twice . |
| 24 | Their goals came in the first half , Scot Sammy Johnston opening his account for the club and |
| 25 | In spite of the recession , reduced profits from property sales and a 50 per cent rise in interest charges to £3.5 million profit before exceptionals was down only 9 per cent to £22.1 million , of which £11.8 million came in the first half . |
| 26 | No I do n't think so , everybody 's disappointed , especially after the way we played in the first half , but erm on our second half performance , I suppose we can just count ourselves lucky we come away with a point . |
| 27 | And as you said , really some of the football played in the first half was quite delightful was n't it ? |
| 28 | The security situation within Kashmir deteriorated during the latter half of 1989 as militant groups pursued their aims in the face of a state government unable to give any effective response . |
| 29 | Although all these theories flourished during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth , the links between them are not simply the product of historical circumstance . |
| 30 | The seller was held liable under section 13 , since the car consisted of the rear half of a 1961 car and the front half of an earlier model . |