Example sentences of "and [art] first half of " in BNC.
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1 | The transition perhaps partly explains why representative democracy is so much less associated with national liberation today than in the late eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries . |
2 | Opposite Shipping lines and their agents advertised throughout the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century . |
3 | It was written during the latter part of 1913 and the first half of 1914 and for part of that time the author was travelling in Austria . |
4 | All three components had a hand in producing the marked reduction in annual growth rate between the first half of the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s , but the dominant feature was the fall in the number of births . |
5 | Is not it higher today than throughout the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s ? |
6 | Between the first half of 1974 and the first half of 1979 , there was a fall in manufacturing output of 2 per cent . |
7 | In terms of world production , OPEC output was estimated over the second half of 1988 and the first half of 1989 to have represented about 34 per cent of the total ; in addition approximately 20 per cent was produced by the Soviet Union and about 15 per cent by the United States , around 5 per cent each by Mexico and China , and about 3 per cent each by the United Kingdom and Canada . |
8 | Relations between the United States and Israel in late 1989 and the first half of 1990 were marked by growing differences over the strategy towards the Middle East peace process [ see pp. 37304 ; 37547 ] and over the settlement of Jewish Immigrants [ see p. 37304 ] . |
9 | The impact of the momentous events of mid-1989 , culminating in the Tiananmen Square massacre in June [ see pp. 36720-22 ] , was still evident during 1990 and the first half of 1991 . |
10 | Relations with the United States remained strained during 1990 and the first half of 1991 . |
11 | This vulnerability increased during 1990 and the first half of 1991 as he grappled unsuccessfully with a series of complex problems [ for his replacement in October 1991 see pp. 38528-29 ; 38558 ] . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | During 1990 and the first half of 1991 relations altered dramatically with the Soviet Union , which , struggling with momentous internal political and economic problems , made major cuts in its aid programme to Vietnam , and a cutback in the Soviet naval and air base at Cam Ranh Bay ; in October 1990 the Soviet ambassador to Vietnam announced that the Soviet Union had started to withdraw its troops from the base . |
14 | During 1990 and the first half of 1991 , however , this contention looked increasingly mistaken as , within weeks of the election victory , both Hawke and his party were recording high levels of public dissatisfaction in opinion polls . |
15 | It is tempting to explain the startling developments which duly took place in Russian domestic affairs in the second half of the 1850s and the first half of the 1860s by saying that the tsar recognized the extent of the difficulties which confronted him and applied himself to resolving them . |
16 | RENFE 's deficit , for reasons discussed in other chapters , exploded during the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s . |