Example sentences of "were [verb] in the first half " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conditions were appaling in the first half . |
| 2 | Six new Homebase stores were opened in the first half with a further new store and distribution depot to opened in the current six months . |
| 3 | Others , whose teenage years were spent in the first half of the Seventies , grew up with a corrupt mixture of Sixties heroes ( Jimi Hendrix , Simon and Garfunkel , The Rolling Stones , Procul Harum ) and Seventies efflorescences ( Led Zeppelin , David Bowie , The Carpenters , Elton John , the original Genesis with Peter Gabriel ) . |
| 4 | But while seven new licence sales were signed in the first half , this dropped to only two in the second due to currency turmoil , recession and political uncertainty in mainland Europe . |
| 5 | Almost four million people in England and Wales were summonsed in the first half of this year for failing to pay . |
| 6 | Over 300,000 blue whales were killed in the first half of the century and despite 30 years of protection have not yet recovered . |
| 7 | Two Swiss Red Cross workers taken hostage in Lebanon in October 1989 were released in the first half of August . |