Example sentences of "the [num ord] half [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second half of this can be seen to coincide with the opinion of Chatterton which is expressed by Ackroyd 's Wilde : ‘ a strange , slight boy who was so prodigal of his genius that he attached the names of others to it . ’ |
| 2 | There is no twentieth-century master who belongs to the second half of this century . |
| 3 | But Mr Lawson has now succeeded in doubling rates since the spring of last year ; we are into the second half of this parliament ; and there can be no certainty that this is the top of the ladder . |
| 4 | This page Business failures : Business failures soared by more than a third in the second half of this year . |
| 5 | That is why figures produced by credit insurer Trade Indemnity , showing the rate of business failures soaring by more than a third in the second half of this year , are so worrying . |
| 6 | The company is not likely to make a profit either in the second half of this year or next year . |
| 7 | The history of Marxist anthropology since The Origin has , as a result , been the difficult , painful , and incomplete recovery of Marxism for pre-capitalist social formations , and the story of this process is what we shall consider in the second half of this book . |
| 8 | In the second half of this century , we have had to seek partners in the US and Western Europe to overcome our technological and industrial limitations . |
| 9 | Coopers & Lybrand took issue with the official Red Book projections of growth rising to annualised 2 per cent rate in the second half of this year , climbing to 3½ per cent from 1993–94 to 1996–97 , and based its forecasts instead on a 2½ per cent growth rate . |
| 10 | Housing market analyst John Wriglesworth of stockbrokers Phillips & Drew forecast prices would rise 5 p.c. during the second half of this year — cancelling the 5 p.c. fall during the last 12 months . |
| 11 | Another big reshuffle could come in 18 months to two years , by which time Mr Patten could be back in Parliament and Mr Douglas Hurd , having helped lead Britain 's presidency of the EC in the second half of this year , may have decided to step down as Foreign Secretary to pursue another career . |
| 12 | We have financed the European Arts Festival to be held throughout Britain during our Presidency of the Community in the second half of this year , as well as the first National Music Day in June . |
| 13 | The second half of this walk starts on the embankment and the area around the late 19C institutions that played such an important role in Czechoslovakia 's eventual independence . |
| 14 | Most pass through in April and the peak movements are fairly consistently noted in the second half of this month , although they sometimes occur in late March or early May . |
| 15 | That does not suit every executive , particularly as the growth in profits has levelled off in the second half of this year . |
| 16 | The illusion that the country was performing adequately persisted , however , well into the second half of this century — partly because the empire provided protected markets for products that were not good enough for the most advanced countries , partly because of the accident of victory in two world wars . |
| 17 | Britain will probably be in a modest recession in the second half of this year , but should recover by the second half of 1991. — Major , November 11 , 1990 . |
| 18 | She follows this with a beautifully breathy version of Cole Porter 's ‘ You Do Something To Me ’ ( from ‘ Red , Hot & Blue ’ ) and the Marilyn Monroe classic ‘ I Want To Be Loved By You ’ ( boo boo be doo ! ) and ( next week , fan mugs ! ) you get the chance to buy the second half of this two CD set including the title track ( again ) plus ‘ Someone To Watch Over Me ’ and — wait for it — ‘ My Heart Belongs To Daddy ’ . |
| 19 | Cray Research Inc reports that the Space Data and Computing Division of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has ordered a Cray C98 system : C98s start at around $12m and the new one will be installed in the second half of this year and will be used for Earth and space sciences research , the firm said . |
| 20 | The president of Prodigy Services Co says the viewdata system is considering a move away from its flat-fee monthly pricing and may start charging by usage for some features , including its bulletin boards : according to Communications Daily , Ross Glatzer said the company 's management is concerned about ‘ rapidly rising telecommunications costs , driven by soaring growth in members ’ use of a handful of features that are most expensive for Prodigy to provide — stock quotes and company news , bulletin boards and airline schedules ; ’ Glatzer said details still are being worked out , but ‘ it 's become clear we must introduce some timed charges for some features in the second half of this year , ’ adding that the problem is one of trying to use flat-rate pricing for some features for which others charge $6 to $18 an hour . |
| 21 | ( II.ii.67f. ) should now collapse under it , seems to vindicate the powers of good , operating in so many different ways in the second half of this play . |
| 22 | Initially , a client/server version will allow Progress clients to access HP 3000 servers running Allbase/SQL — that should appear in the second half of this year . |
| 23 | The move away from teaching by copying in the second half of this century and the lack of space for exhibiting the works has meant that the collection has been largely hidden . |
| 24 | The search for such dating methods has continued for some time , but in the second half of this century several methods have been developed , which provide much better ways of dating some sites and finds . |
| 25 | It is obviously not necessary to cite cases for the proposition that there has been a considerable development in the scope of judicial review in the second half of this century . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | In the second half of this period , under Secretaries of State such as the Duc de Choiseul ( 1758–70 ) and the Comte de Vergennes ( 1774–87 ) it was becoming steadily a more and more effective machine . |
| 28 | In the second half of this year everyone will be invited to take part again in a new and updated programme — keep a look out for details . |
| 29 | The construction of the first ship will start in the second half of this year . |
| 30 | 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 " . |