Sentence examples for a hard first half from inspiring English sources

The visitors, driven along by some howitzer punts from the outside-half Stephen Myler, mounted some driving assaults in the Quins 22 during a hard first half while the Londoners looked to their own No 10, Nick Evans, to unlock a door or two with some wide-angled kicks for his wings.

The strikers were spinning into space well and I think that Mark Sampson will ultimately be happy with what he has seen tonight after a difficult first half". The first half had been hard going for England, but two goals in the first eight minutes after the break, both from well-worked set-pieces, put the game beyond a conservative Ukraine.

Both teams produced their fair share of embarrassing errors in a hard-fought first half.

But they did so only after coming unscathed through a hard-fought first half in which either side might have taken the lead.

Stephen Roach, chief economist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, for instance, sees a 40% probability of a hard landing in the first half of 2000, as a deceleration in the global economy combines with a destabilising jolt, such as an earnings or dollar shock.

"They came off the back of a 6-1 defeat last week and it certainly makes them come out and fight a bit harder, but it was a strange first half.

"That was probably the most frustrated I've been because a lot of the decisions didn't go our way and I couldn't even have a conversation with the fourth official". "We are very pleased because we had a hard time in the first half and didn't play to our usual standards.

We can't criticise them because they've worked very hard". A first-half Niall McGinn goal gave the Dons victory but Dundee had their chances with Jim McAlister striking against the bar and also forcing a save from Jamie Langfield.

Castleford coach Daryl Powell: "I thought we worked hard in the first half but conceded a couple of soft tries.

Cowdenbeath worked hard throughout the first half and equalised when Gallagher was quickest to react after a Sean Higgins shot was saved by Neil Alexander.

"They made us work very hard in the first half.