Sentence examples for preceding half from inspiring English sources

From the very first sentence of his memoirs, he was able to connect his life with the great currents of the preceding half century.

At the beginning of the 16th century the style of vocal music was generally uniform because of the pervading influence of Netherlanders during the preceding half century.

In 2013, the UN's most comprehensive report on climate science made a tentative observation that the years since 1998 had seen a "much smaller increasing trend" than the preceding half century.

Land prices in Japan's six largest cities fell 4.2percentt from April to September compared with the preceding half year, continuing a 12-year slide in property prices, according to the Japan Real Estate Institute.

The drafts of unfinished works he left are mostly incoherent and show many signs of a psychic regression, already foreshadowed by his increasing restlessness and discontent of the preceding half dozen years.

At first many of Sam's comments on objects were the same from one episode to the next, but in the later episodes Sam comes up with new witticisms regarding his roadkill calendar and Bosco's advertisement stating "buy 1, get 1" (which Sam declares a much better deal than the preceding "half off if you pay twice").

Major Jewish immigrations and land purchases in Palestine took place during the preceding half-century.

He lectured widely after that and wrote his autobiography, in which he reflected on the political history of the preceding half-century.

Yet this was the least of the reasons for the union.Over the preceding half-century, Scotland had been steadily growing poorer.

More conflicts ended in the 15 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall than in the preceding half-century (see chart 1).

Clinton spent her preceding half-hour grilling on the Intrepid defending herself on her lax handling of classified information, a situation that a former navy lieutenant in the audience correctly observed would spell doom for a low-ranking service member.