Sentence examples for half in the second from inspiring English sources

We were a better team in the first half in the second half the game was a bit broken and I didn't like it so much.

This is not only because it was indeed America that liberated their own continent one half in the second world war and the other in the cold war.

The Belgian delayed too long before shooting in the first half; in the second, he slipped the ball past the otherwise excellent Given before Shawcross's rescue act.

FRANKFURT — Deutsche Bank, Europe's largest investment bank, said on Tuesday that net profit fell by half in the second quarter as it earned fewer fees from financial market trading and absorbed costs related to lawsuits.

The earnings come two days after UBS warned that it would miss its profit target for 2014, after earnings fell by half in the second quarter because of a similar drop in investment banking income.

The company also had trouble holding on to sales of existing products: Merck's profit fell by half in the second quarter of this year, mainly because of competition from generic alternatives to older medicines.

The novel is told half in the first person, half in the third, and in some sense very little occurs.

Foreign investment fell by half in the first five months of the year.

Japan has pledged $500 million to the reconstruction effort, half in the first year.

"Cutting the deficit in half in the first five years is the right order of magnitude," Mr. Conrad said.

In May, Tribune bought back half its outstanding shares, with plans to buy the other half in the fourth quarter.