Sentence examples for half preceding from inspiring English sources

For much of the month and a half preceding the October 5 vote, Rousseff trailed Marina Silva, who unexpectedly finished in third place after vaunting to the top of polls, when she suddenly replaced Eduardo Campos, who died in an August 13 airplane crash.

In 1992 a meta-analysis of 61 papers, published in the British Medical Journal, suggested they had fallen by half in the preceding half-century, from 113m per millilitre of semen to 66m.

There are one or two alliterating letters in the first half line preceding the medial caesura; these also alliterate with the first stressed syllable in the second half line.

In the half hour preceding the interval, Australia had added 64 runs.

In the half century preceding the arrival of the Spanish, the Kaqchikel were frequently at war with the Pipil of Izcuintepeque (modern Escuintla).

The physical examination was performed during the half hour preceding the MRI scan.

In the United States, it took the better part of the half-century preceding World War II for this to occur.

Its success promoted a period of intense canal construction that established a network of inland waterways serving the Industrial Revolution and contributing to Britain's prosperity in the half-century preceding the railway era, which began in the mid-19th century.

"By 2007, Citi's relationship with Terra Firma had become so lucrative that it occasionally provided services without charging a fee … in light of the $130m£85m5m) in fees Terra Firma paid Citi over the two-and-a-half years preceding March 2007".

Hutton had conceded 30 runs in four overs, and in the half-hour preceding the interval, Australia had added 64 runs.

Evidence showed that during the seven-and-a-half months preceding Elvis's death – from January to August of 1977 – his doctor wrote him prescriptions for at least 8,805 pills, tablets, vials and injectables.