Example sentences of "[num ord] half of [adj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 During the second half of 1989 the European Communities ( EC ) made significant progress in their efforts to attain a single internal market for goods and services by Dec. 31 , 1992 , as agreed in principle in December 1985 ( see p. 34107 ) with effect from July 1987 as the Single European Act ( see pp. 34889 ; 35534 ; for resulting Community legislation see pp. 34625-26 ; 34885 ; 35533-35 ; 35912 ; 36152-54 ; 36306 ; 36493-94 ; p. 37131 ) .
2 For the second half of 1992/1993 the target range for growth in M4 , the measure of broad money , will be 4%-8% .
3 In the second half of 1848 the Prussian ambassador was reporting to Berlin that St Petersburg 's main concerns were not revolution but a cholera epidemic , the expectation of a poor harvest and a shortage of cash .
4 In the first half of 1989 the total was 1,220 and indications are that more than 2,000 companies will suffer liquidity problems in the second half .
5 In the first half of 1989 the unemployment rate reportedly fell by half a percentage point .
6 During the first half of 1989 the growth rate declined and many plans were not fulfilled .
7 In the first half of 1987 the situation worsened further .
8 In the first half of 1991 the homicide rate rose by 62 per cent , allegedly largely because of the newly opened borders , which meant also that Poland became a target for drug trafficking .
9 Throughout 1990 and the first half of 1991 the SLORC had imposed a series of legal restrictions on the NLD and other opponents which effectively frustrated their political ambitions .
10 In the first half of 1991 the NPA increased its activities throughout the country in an apparent attempt to win back lost ground .
11 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 .
12 IN THE first half of 1990 the Food & Agriculture Division continued to make progress and earned profits of £14.9m , an increase of nearly 20% on our 1989 half .
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