Example sentences of "[subord] in [art] first half " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation was slightly better than in the first half of the 1980s , when more power stations were cancelled than entered service , but those under construction all dated from orders placed at the beginning of the 1970s . |
| 2 | The European balance of power was thus after the Seven Years War a more subtle problem in many ways than in the first half of the century . |
| 3 | higher than in the first half of 1990 . |
| 4 | In conclusion , the population of England remained fairly stable for much of the fifteenth century , at a far lower level than in the first half of the fourteenth . |
| 5 | Since labour supply did not increase to meet this demand , the growth of civilian employment was only marginally higher in the late sixties and early seventies than in the first half of the sixties ( table 11.2 ) . |
| 6 | In the early eighteenth century poverty was partially responsible for the many applications for military rank , for in the first half of the century even a commission in a new regiment , and the near certainty of half-pay at the conclusion of the war emergency , was attractive . |
| 7 | On the assumption that they would continue to fall at the same rate as in the first half of the decade , it was estimated that the population would be only one tenth of its size in a hundred years time . |
| 8 | The situation at West Glamorgan was , however , very different , as in the first half of 1977 the other Welsh teacher-training institutions mounted a rescue operation to save its courses . |