Sentence examples for first half beat from inspiring English sources

Ireland, robbed of playmaker Brian O'Driscoll in the first half, beat Romania 39-8 in a low-key warm-up for 2003 World Cup qualifiers.

In any given period there are likely to be wide divergences between the returns of the different strategies; the best sector in the first half beat the worst by more than 20 percentage points.As a result, risk has a lot of different potential meanings for hedge-fund investors.

In a buy note Kate Calvert at Investec said: [We have raised our] 2015 pretax profit forecast...by 3% to £83.5m – This is not as great an increase as the first half beat as we are conscious that the sports fascia is up against very tough second half comparables and Christmas is a very important trading period.

The first half beats the drum for WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, the man behind the biggest security breach in US intelligence history.

Overall, the group posted a 7% increase in pre-tax profit to £172m in the first half, beating analyst estimates of £168m.

Instead, it was Next's barnstorming home-shopping business that helped to drive sales up 4.5% in the first half, beating the chain's own forecasts.

Canterbury enjoyed the better of most of the first half, beating Souths at their own power game in the middle of the ruck, with James Graham continually carting the Steeden forward for the Dogs.

Robbie Gould kicked a 41-yard field goal as time expired after Jay Cutler recovered from a first-half beating to rally the Chicago Bears in the fourth quarter for a 23-22 win over the visiting Carolina Panthers on Sunday.

In other games, Evan Turner had 18 points and 11 rebounds as the 76ers beat the Pistons, 104-97, anDallasas used a 31-3 run in the first half to beat Sacramento, 119-96.

ST. 74, BOWLING GREEN 60 No. 21 Michigan State overcame a sluggish first half to beat visiting Bowling Green.

MICHIGAN 60, VILLANOVA 52 No. 8 seed Michigan (22-10) overcame a cold-shooting first half to beat ninth-seeded Villanova 21-111) in Stanford.