Sentence examples for the half year from inspiring English sources

And its UK like-for-like sales tumbled by 10.2 per cent over the half year.

It has £3.2bn worth of loans and overdrafts and refinanced £1.3bn in the half year.

Sales in North America declined 15percentt in the half year.

The banks also cut expenses by 7.8percentt in the half year.

In the half year to the end of June, it accounted for just 13%.

At the half year, staff costs were £4.6bn, up from £4.2bn.

Still, Democrats crowed today about the half-year results.

The half-year results were pushed down by restructuring charges.

That is eight times the half-year average for such removals from 1998 to 2007.

The half-year dividend has been raised by 13 per cent to 4.4p a share.

The bad bits in the half-year numbers were variously predicted or easy to explain.