Example sentences of "for the [adj] half of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turn to page 68 for the lower half of the letter |
| 2 | A bit of judicious trimming will keep it flowering generously all summer : a careful haircut for the lower half of the plant will hold back the flowers while the top half is in bloom , then when that has finished cut it back and let the lower half flower . |
| 3 | Less than a week ago , he said that this congress would strip the party of its ideology and change its name , but it now looks likely that he will have to settle for the second half of the forecast . |
| 4 | New plans to cut central — and republican — government spending are to be agreed upon for the second half of the year . |
| 5 | If the radical criminologists ' assumptions are correct , then the figures for the second half of the 19th century might probably show the opposite from that which they do ’ ( Emsley , 1988 , p. 42 ) . |
| 6 | But if each can be honest about themselves , try to understand the other , and be ready to give as well as take , they will be able to capitalize on all the benefits of facing life together as a stable and mature couple , for the second half of their journey . |
| 7 | If a marriage is to survive as a healthy and beneficial partnership for the second half of life , these remembered wrongs must be dealt with . |
| 8 | It would work for one part but the next part needed another sound to it , so maybe we 'd use the Paul Reed Smith for the second half of the solo . |
| 9 | Warned Dorigo : ‘ We have n't lost faith in our ability and if we can beat Blackburn and Norwich , it will give us the best possible launching pad for the second half of the season . ’ |
| 10 | For the second half of 1992/1993 the target range for growth in M4 , the measure of broad money , will be 4%-8% . |
| 11 | An OpenView storage management system is still under development for the second half of the year . |
| 12 | If , as it believes , desktop services become a predominant method of providing information technology infrastructure for the second half of the decade , then vendors must regard the sector as a long-term strategic venture . |
| 13 | In its Open Road schedule , OSF expects to get OSF/1.2 out of the door for the second half of next year , with improved commercial functionality , real-time and pre-emptive scheduling features . |
| 14 | They had engaged soldiers for a year , but had been deprived by the truce of most of the ransoms which were to pay the troops ' wages for the second half of the year . |
| 15 | Her projects for the second half of her six-year term of office include activities at Nuremberg 's large Schlachthof , a children 's art centre and a book programme for TV . |
| 16 | And you 'll find for half the pack it 's one a day and then for the second half of the pack it 's two a day . |
| 17 | of GDP for the second half of 1991 — that is a high level . |
| 18 | I now invite you to complete the enclosed form detailing your sports events for the second half of the year . |
| 19 | Aggregate quotas for the 13 OPEC countries were increased progressively from 16,600,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) for the second half of 1988 to 18,500,000 bpd for the first half of 1989 , to 19,500,000 bpd for the second half of 1989 ( and further to 20,500,000 bpd for the fourth quarter of the year ) and to 22,086,000 bpd for the first half of 1990 ( see pp. 36573 ; 36751 ; 36910 ; 37053 ) . |
| 20 | Aggregate quotas for the 13 OPEC countries were increased progressively from 16,600,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) for the second half of 1988 to 18,500,000 bpd for the first half of 1989 , to 19,500,000 bpd for the second half of 1989 ( and further to 20,500,000 bpd for the fourth quarter of the year ) and to 22,086,000 bpd for the first half of 1990 ( see pp. 36573 ; 36751 ; 36910 ; 37053 ) . |
| 21 | The Volkskammer approved on July 22 a budget for the second half of 1990 . |
| 22 | Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu , EC Commission President Jacques Delors and Ruud Lubbers , the Netherlands Prime Minister who held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the second half of 1991 , held their first formal EC-Japanese summit in The Hague on July 18 immediately after the London G-7 summit [ see pp. 38321-22 ] . |
| 23 | The rotating presidency of the Council was held by Ireland for the first half of 1990 , by Italy for the second half of 1990 , and in 1991 it was held first by Luxembourg and then by the Netherlands . |
| 24 | In an address to the country on Nov. 10 , President José Eduardo Dos Santos announced that a general election would take place on a date provisionally set for the second half of September 1992 and that consultations would continue with political parties and organizations on a firm date . |
| 25 | The two sides also agreed that elections scheduled for the second half of September 1992 would be conducted on a basis of proportional representation and that the post-election regime would be " semi-presidential " , with the president serving a five-year mandate , renewable for three terms . |
| 26 | On July 8 the Russian President Boris Yeltsin had announced at a press conference in Munich after talks with leaders of the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) industrialized countries [ see p. 38990 ] that Russia had made a political decision to withdraw an estimated 130,000 troops from the Baltic states , and that an agreement " on a schedule for the withdrawal of troops for the second half of this year and for 1993 " would be signed " soon " . |
| 27 | Late on Sept. 20 UK Prime Minister John Major ( whose country held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the second half of 1992 ) announced that he would call an emergency summit to discuss ratification of the Treaty and to " deal with the particular problems in the foreign exchange markets in recent days , that have revealed shortcomings in the exchange rate mechanism system " . |
| 28 | John Major , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , which held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the second half of 1992 , declared that Edinburgh would " be remembered as the summit that put the Community back together " . |
| 29 | Now it 's time for the second half of our review of the year . |
| 30 | The opening piece , Respighi 's symphonic poem Fountains of Rome , was subtly characterised and sensuously played , but the real fireworks were reserved for the second half of the concert . |