Example sentences of "that [prep] the [num ord] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , Mori figures show that between the second half of 1991 and 9 April 1992 , the swing to the Tories was 9 per cent among Sun readers and 6 per cent among Star readers , compared to just 1 per cent among Mirror readers — evidence that the press influenced its readers in 1992 as in 1987 . |
| 2 | Land availability , the activities of speculative builders , and rapid association of suburban living with status and respectability , combined with the growing railway network , contrived to ensure that during the second half of the nineteenth century the population of London 's outer suburban ring grew by approximately 50 per cent in each of the ten years between 1861 and 1891 and by 45 per cent between 1891 and 1901 . |
| 3 | No two coalfields were the same , but if a general pattern can be discerned from the variety of experience it is that during the first half of the nineteenth century each region largely generated its own workforce from the natural increase of its population , but that the spectacular later developments drew not only upon local men who left the farms or rural crafts and industries in large numbers but also upon the surplus population of counties from all over the British Isles . |
| 4 | It is clear that throughout the second half of 1184 Henry Ii had been seeking a solution to the problem of the succession . |
| 5 | He pointed to a ‘ desperate need to educate the population better ’ and said that in the first half of the Eighties the engineering workforce fell by a third and the number of graduates employed increased by half . |
| 6 | County NatWest calculates that in the first half of the year to September 1991 , Hanson made £150m interest on its cash pile and £60m-70m from selling a subsidiary — in all , 37% of its total pre-tax profits of £588m . |
| 7 | UK Management Buyouts 1992 , the annual review for The Centre for Management Buyout Research at the University of Nottingham , notes that in the first half of 1992 , buyouts and buy-ins accounted for 29.6% of the value of all transfers of ownership in the UK and nearly 60% of the total number . |
| 8 | The serial usage is arranged so that in the first half , the ‘ O ’ , ‘ I ’ , ‘ R ’ , and ‘ RI ’ versions are all used at once , as follows : Violin 1 — ‘ O ’ beginning on C ; Violin 2 — ‘ R ’ of the same series as that of Violin 1 ; Viola — ‘ RI ’ of the series beginning on B♭ ; Cello — ‘ I ’ of the series beginning on B♭ . |
| 9 | The nineteenth-century agricultural historian Youatt calculated that in the second half of the eighteenth century every Londoner purchased an average of half a pound of meat a day — more than twice as much as the average in Paris or Brussels . |
| 10 | Colin Kerr … predicts that in the second half of this century culture will hold the key role in the development of the economy , a role played by the automobile in the first half ( of this century ) . |
| 11 | Will he now confirm , since he seems to regard all problems as being entirely domestic , that over the second half of the last year industrial production fell in the United States , in Japan and elsewhere and that Germany 's gross domestic product has now declined for three quarters in succession and Germany is in recession ? |
| 12 | In the Amazon , the numbers of Indians declined , ceasing to be a threat to western expansion , so that by the second half of the last century , they were becoming more of a curiosity , regarded as anachronistic impediments to progress , which had to be educated on Christian lines on the one hand , the true lords of the territory to be given their freedom on the other . |