Example sentences of "[vb past] in the second half " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Once the Springboks tired , the tide turned in the second half . |
| 8 | I think he he had a really good first half I think it like , I think that to be fair , apart from Coleman an Southgate everybody faded in the second half did n't they ? |
| 9 | Our clear frustration showed in the second half and we are as disappointed as our fans . |
| 10 | Modern socialism , however , is a reaction to the Industrial Revolution which began in the second half of the eighteenth century : in particular to the advent of the machine and the factory , the rapid growth of population and urbanisation , the payment of low wages and the existence of sporadic unemployment , and to the kind of society which industrialisation created which was considered by many as inhuman , unjust and divisive . |
| 11 | The pace relented in the second half with neither keeper being tested , and indeed Pegasus 's Mary Bowden had a relatively easy game as her defence blotted out everything Portadown fired at them . |
| 12 | England 's performance confirmed the impressions they made in the second half of their 1-1 draw with Italy at Brighton last month . |
| 13 | But Teddy Sheringham levelled in the second half when he converted a Gary Mabbutt flick-on . |
| 14 | ‘ We improved in the second half and I was very pleased with our teamwork , with everybody pulling for each other . |
| 15 | Many plan targets were not met , however , as industrial output fell in the second half of the year . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | La Rochelle , for example , established by a pariage agreement between Duke William X of Aquitaine and Louis VI of France in 1130 , grew in the second half of the century into the chief port for the export of Gascon wines to England ; the prospect of employment attracted immigrants , the settlement became a substantial town . |
| 18 | As his championship hopes grew in the second half of the season , his fellow Italian riders began to treat him like their little brother . |
| 19 | Other documents to which Shaughnessy was given access included a series of DIA Defense Intelligence Terrorism Summaries ( DITSUMs ) issued in the second half of 1988 warning against renewed threats of attack on US interests , particularly as a consequence of the shooting down of the Iranian Airbus in July . |
| 20 | Indeed , its constituent elements characterised and were inherited from the tradition of labourism that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century ( Saville 1973 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ I have family and friends who assume that Rangers will beat FC Brugge with a couple of goals to spare , but in order to do that we will need to play throughout this week 's game as we did in the second half over there , ’ he added . |
| 22 | ‘ I am very proud of what he and the rest of the team did in the second half when we were down to ten men , ’ said Smith . |
| 23 | The incentive for Preston to win was to go top of the table … enough said in the second half Ellis ran away with it to make it three-nil … |
| 24 | The Widnes tale of woe continued in the second half , when Tony Myler was unable to hold Pyke 's pass and Turner intercepted to give Thorniley a second try . |
| 25 | The furious pace continued in the second half with play sweeping from end to end without either keeper being tested . |