in the first half

"Barcelona at times played some fantastic football, and was some of the best I have even seen a team play in the first half, " he said.

He took medical leave in 2004 and then again in the first half of 2009, returning to the company in late June of that year.

"We started off well in the first half and should have had a penalty but you have to give credit to Arsenal, they're a top side, " he said.

Now properly in the chair, he has less than a year to live up to his word before elections due in the first half of 2011.

Press said the company was on track with its sales and financial restructuring plans in the first half of the year.

In the first half every time we came out we scored and that of course made it difficult for them.

It had already bent: Rio, like BHP, confirmed 50 per cent of its iron ore had been sold on the spot market in the first half.

It was a great game for us. In the first half we found it difficult to break them down, we had a lot of the ball.

So the downturn is only now beginning to reach tony areas in north Dallas, where prices fell 17% in the first half of this year.

The company also said it had moved into positive cash flow of $1. 3bn during the quarter, having burned through $4. 7bn in the first half.

In the first half we may have been a bit too quick in trying to find the killer ball and wasted some chances.

Isamu Noguchi was one of the few people who tried to combine sculpture with garden in the first half of the 20th century.

For the (global) economy, we have been saying for a year that the recovery will come in the first half of 2010.

And it seems to be growing: In the first half of this year, the company processed $1. 3 billion in digital goods payments, Thompson said.

In the first half of 2008, a number of incidents seem to indicate that the Sino-French mutual understanding is far from adequate.

The company's earnings rebounded in the first half of the year compared to the year earlier, when global trade virtually ground to a halt.

Mr Edwards worries that the economy will start to turn down in the first half of next year.

The U. S. economy grew less than 1 percent in the first half of the year and has yet to return to its pre-recession size.

Hawker Beechcraft alone took orders for 16 corporate jets in the first half of this year and will deliver them over the next two years.

The company plans to launch the phone in the first half of this year in the U. S. through Verizon Wireless.

Philips said that, after a strong rebound in the first half, it expects comparable sales growth to moderate over the rest of the year.

As is known to you, there is only one vessel sailing for your port each month and it usually leaves here in the first half of a month.

In Asia, the latest news from China indicated that its economy was beginning to cool after a torrid pace in the first half of the year.

International trade (exports minus imports) contributed a little less than nothing to the country's growth in the first half of this year.

The companies said the transaction has been approved by their respective boards and was expected to close in the first half of 2012.

They fought their way from 13 down in the first half to a two-point lead after three quarters. Then it was McGrady's time.

In the first-half we missed six chances that you would expect us to put away - at least one or two of them anyway.

'In fact, ' he wrote, 'organic growth seems to have slowed anew to a below trend pace in the first half of 2011. '

Bernanke told a congressional panel that the economy appeared to be growing, but warned it could shrink in the first half of 2008.

You were not able to play as you expected in the first half in the first round.

A defensive error set up the only goal of the game for the Dutch side from which Jefferson Farfan scored early in the first half.

China's economy expanded at 9. 5 per cent in the first half of this year and is widely expected to see only a slight slowdown in 2006.

He finally found his rhythm, as he connected on four of the Heat's seven three-pointers in the first half.

China's GDP barrelled along in the first half of the year, growing by 11. 1% compared with a year earlier.

An abrupt decrease of the number of reported new AIDS cases took place in the first half of 1997 in the Netherlands.

On the rare occasions Liverpool did break in the first half, they seemed too wrapped up in defensive duties to dare to push forward.

Due to various historical factors, the national industry of China did not enjoy fast growth in the first half of the 20th century.

Year-to-year growth may be slowing, but auto sales were still up 48% in the first half from a year earlier.

Given the company's poor achievement in the first half of the year, we decided that the ' investment be left aside.

We showed a lot of patience, particularly in the first half when we were trying to open them up.

The consequences are showing up in Cosco's bottom line; the firm lost $420 million in the first half of the year.

The miner's backers hope an IPO can take place in the first half of next year, one of the people said.

No date for the conference has been announced, but it normally takes place in the first half of December.

However, he was forced off in the first half with a recurrence of the injury and Wenger accepts that it was a mistake to play him.

The association is expected to be set up in the first half of next year, according to the Angolan authorities.

But Tuesday night, the Lakers went back to being the cool kid, absolutely running the gutty little Rockets off the court in the first half.

The sales volume of our company is not very good in the first half years of this year.

this month that it had taken on 83 new cases of market malpractice in the first half of this year, including 45 cases of insider trading.

The performance of the economy in the first half of the year, when it expanded by 10. 4 per cent, appeared to indicate this was happening.

There was no shouting or hollering, I don't feel we played particularly badly in the first-half.

"It is especially cruel if you look at the clearcut chances we had in the first half and at the beginning of the second half, " he said.

The Lakers tried out Adam Morrison for a stretch in the first half, but he appeared a bit timid and didn't see any more minutes.

The second half was played well, we commanded the match, using our speed and ball possession, which we did not do in the first half.

While a few smaller suppliers struggled to meet demand in the first half of the year, most companies were quick to reinstate capacity.

Romantically , how the month plays out depends on how things feel for you in the first half of August.

Renminbi-settled trade transactions came to Rmb957bn ($146bn) in the first half of this year, from next to nothing a year earlier.

The survey is set to start in the first half of the year and is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2016.

He became not only the Queen's companion but also an important political adviser for her in the first half of her reign.

In all, the economy looks to have grown at a 2% annual rate in the first half of the year, the slowest six-month stretch of the recovery.

It was a good pace in the first half - in the second it was a little bit off - but we were never really in trouble.

Yet, according to the latest figures from the UN, noncombatant deaths were up 15% in the first half of 2011 compared with a year earlier.

Li Ning's profit fell nearly 50% in the first half of 2011 from a year ago, the most recent measure of its performance.

Our defense was ragged, we weren't getting back in transition, and the help defense was non-existent in the first half of the preseason.

In fact, things went in the wrong direction: there was an increase in energy consumption in the first half of 2006.

An elm tree was planted in the first half of the 20th century on a farm near Beulah , Michigan (USA). It grew to be a magnificent tree.

Capital expenditure rose by nearly a fifth in the first half and the company is eyeing two multi-billion dollar acquisitions overseas.

But a separate report suggested the pace of the recovery could soon pick up after spinning its wheels in the first half of the year.

Sales of Audi, Mercedes, and BMW continued to soar in the first half of this year, respectively up by 28%, 52% and 61%.

The number of anti-dumping cases rose by 40 per cent in the first half of 2008 and there has been a gradual creeping up of tariffs.

Though McGrady didn't get a point in the first half, the Rockets went into the break with a 15-point advantage.

You got an increase in payroll taxes, which is gonna be a real restrain on the consumer spending in the first half of this year.

In the first half of this century, scientists still assumed that the cell was a fairly simple blob of protoplasm.

China Mobile said average revenue per user was Rmb75 a month in the first half of this year, down from Rmb84 a year ago.

Who's bucking the trend? Malaysia and India have had positive inflows in the first half of the year.

Google Ventures says it has invested as much money in the first half of this year as in all of last.

In the first half of this year it slipped back into a loss of $1. 3 billion, after three years of recovery.

"That will be probably be in the first half of next year, " he said.

Of more than 7 trillion yuan loaned out in the first half of this year by Chinese banks, only an estimated 10% has gone to smaller firms.

Analysts say the margins may have peaked in the first half and that banks will struggle to replace high-yielding assets as they pay off.

Everything will depend to which extent they managed to actualize things in the first half of 2011.

Pan American made about $3. 50 per barrel in net income in the first half, on JPMorgan's calculations, one-sixth that of Cnooc.

Across the river, authorities say manufacturing is booming with foreign investment doubling in the first half of this year compared to 2010.

He said BG is on track to make a final investment decision for the LNG plant in the first half of 2010.

Rothman expects interest rates to increase not more than half a percentage point this year, which he says will happen in the first half.

"What happened, particularly in the first half, is very hard to explain, " he said.

"I thought our offensive inefficiency allowed them to be a transition team, especially in the first half, " Hamblen said.

Public spending is estimated to have slowed in the first half owing to a crackdown on wasteful spending .

In the first half of 2009 the group's revenues were about the same as a year before, though profits were 12% lower.

Sunday he played as a central striker in the first half and made some good movements aside from the goal.

BYD's sales of handset components reached 3. 2 billion yuan in the first half of this year, 51% higher than a year earlier.

They were more aggressive in the first half, but in the second we had quite a few good chances.

We had some good pieces of play in the first half and their goalkeeper made some fantastic saves, but we had to speed up the play.

"We all concede that we weren't playing brilliantly in the first half of the season. But we were getting results, " said Giggs.

But in the first half of this year they recovered strongly, only to drop back in recent weeks.

Chinese hotel occupancy climbed 21% in the first half from a year earlier, according to research firm STR Global.

In the first half, John Terry was on the left wing at one moment, then sprinting to get back into the defence when the ball was lost.

It has less than a dozen stores on the mainland, posting a small net loss in the first half.

As everybody saw in the first half against Tottenham, we had bounced back from the set-back against Barcelona and just got on with it.

The risk management policy is predicated on setting organizational priorities, which are discussed in the first half of this chapter.

'I estimate it will be in the first half of next year, ' he said.

"In the first half on Sunday we didn't play with enough intensity and speed. , " he said.

Yet even in the first half of this century people used to be classed according to their birth.

The New York company's investment bank was No. 1 in global market share in the first half of 2011, leapfrogging over rivals.

In the first half of this year, the statistics for oil demand growth were unusually high because of a low base during the financial crisis.

The company suffered a drop in sales in the first half of the year.

However, we played good football in the first half as well, we were just unlucky, that's why we didn't lose courage.

US magazine circulation continued to decline in the first half of 2010.

Strong investment mismatched with weak sales in the first half have only added to the total.

Record trading revenues in the investment bank in the first half of the year helped offset rising losses in JPMorgan's consumer portfolios.

Be prepared to make an impression in the first half minute.

In the first half, I start the ball, opponent tackles and attack quickly, .

In the first half of the year, the relations between big countries traveled a tortuous road, showing fairly sharp contradictions.

Economists already had expected growth to rebound in coming months after companies drew down inventories in the first half of the year.

League officials said during the stampede, an "agitated spectator" rushed into the field in the first half to alert game officials.

There was a loading shock on the sewage treatment system in the first half year of 2004 due to many causes.

Chinese banks have been issuing such debt at a hefty rate - $31 billion's worth in the first half, triple the amount in 2008 as a whole.

The company said it sold more than 120, 000 vehicles in the first half, up more than 70% from 70, 000 a year ago.

The country's third-quarter gross domestic product grew 9% from a year earlier, slowing from the 10. 4% expansion in the first half.

The goalie Renan had not a touch in the first half but managed to get some work in the second.

To do what they did in the first-half, tackle for every ball, is very difficult and from then on we looked a bit more comfortable.

China's import of oil product in the first half of this year was a factor in pushing up international oil prices, according to analysts.

It was a great result. I thought we played very well in the first half even though it was disappointing to concede a goal from a corner.

Exports of services fared better in the first half of the year, bolstered by sustained growth in offshore trade and inbound tourism.

Affected by frozen rain, Wenchuan Earthquake, tour enthusiasm of Shenyang people was restrained in the first half of the year.

In the first half of this video I wore a black shirt (according to Black cat) and in the second I wore a white one (according to the child).

The coaches of Real Madrid and Athletic Madrid held a joint press conference as they did in the first half of the season.

That capital increase could take place in the first half of 2010, VW said.

SAP , the world's largest business software maker , says its German sales grew at a double- digit rate in the first half of this year .

The same source reports that disputes in the first half of 2009 were 30% higher than a year earlier.

"Interest rates will probably go up a couple more times, probably in the first half of the year, " said Mr Cavey.

for an extended period, as was the case in the first half of the 20th century.

They had a few dangerous situations in the first half, even after they scored.

Having presided over a mammoth $1, 100bn of new loans in the first half of the year, Beijing is calling time on Chinese credit growth.

In the first half, Lamar had hit a free throw and grabbed a rebound, but the big man must have been saving his best for last.

Man I hope we get back to that TMac high post offense we were running in the first half. I really liked that.

We gave a great performance in the first half and strained ourselves less after half-time because we'll play another game on Saturday.

The national economy, reversing the once downward trend of growth rate in the first half of this year, kept fairly fast growth.

I thought in the first half he looked like he was playing not to get hurt.

If they have to take an economic downturn, presidents want to do it in the first half of a term.

With Veer, My Name Is Khan, Housefull, Kites, Rajneeti set for release in the first half of the year, except some changes in the list.

First, I would like to give you a brief introduction about China's commercial functioning in the first half of this year.

Thedialogue in the first half of life is the dialogue with the world: What does the world ask of me?

The stopper limped out of Chelsea's win over West Ham on Saturday after turning his ankle in the first half.

Liverpool had a short good period in the first -half but after that, the best team was in blue .

In the first half of 2009 the Jakarta stockmarket rose more than any other Asian marketexcept Mumbai's and Shanghai's.

CHINA has become the main engine of the world economy, accounting for one-third of global GDP growth in the first half of this year.

Starting with the economic analysis, real GDP in the euro area was virtually stagnant in the first half of this year.

Yi returned with 8: 54 left in the first half and was promptly called for goaltending when he leaped high to swat Shane Battier's shot.

In the first-half of this campaign he was frequently the difference between United winning and drawing games.

Such a correlation had appeared in the first half of the 20th century.

In the first half of the 20th century, there was some government support to send abroad films that helped showcase American ideals.

Sina will likely start generating revenue from Weibo in the first half next year, Chief Executive Charles Chao said on a teleconference.

They received $32 billion in this way in the first half of the year, despite the government's attempts to turn off the lending taps.

Bankruptcies have been edging up, with those at small and medium companies 29 per cent higher in the first half of the year.

We had the wrong attitude second half, which is hard to explain as it was perfect in the first half.

In election years, the stock market typically hits a roadblock in the first half of the year, as investors worry about the looming vote.

Thai Prime Minister Abhisit said that the dissolution of Parliament elections in the first half, better than the second half.

In the first half of the year, Shell made hundreds of millions of dollars from arbitraging markets and storing oil.

Our play was a bit slow in the first half and they made it very difficult for us.

It was almost a close game in the first half, but we seemed lacking of vigor in the second half, so, we lost the game.

French speakers in Canada were far from a 'beleaguered minority' in the first half of the 19th century.

For one retail company, 85% of its profit in the first half of the year came from lending activities.

He said that currently can not determine the specific date for the start of the transfer, but should in the first half.

The score for China was the lowest in the short history of the index, which began in the first half of 2009.

In the first half we did nothing and at half-time I told them to be afraid of going home having offered nothing.

First, it suggests China's strong growth in the first half of the year was helped by continued credit expansion.

However, if Kobe does what he did in the first half and intentionally bump into Yao, it will be disaster for Rockets!

In the first half of the match, our team was in a very negative position.

The company's decision to tap the capital markets at end of 2010 and in the first half of 2011 looks smart.

The company's pre-tax profits almost tripled to $1. 28bn in the first half of the year.

In the first half, enzymes from the small intestine complete digestion, and Bacteria produce many B vitamins and vitamin K.

Nintendo said it would make its first ever loss in the first half because of the impact of the yen's appreciation on its dollar assets.

The company added 35. 9m customers in the first half, bringing the total to 493m.

Besides the stimulus plans, the lower gasoline price in the first half of 2009 was also credited for the strong auto sales.

To carelessly waste money, time, opportunities etc: -The home team squandered a number of chances in the first half.

The IMF's warning came as commodity prices surged more than 30 per cent in the first half of the year, boosted by record oil and food costs.

In the first half we suffered a lot and made too many mistakes in passing and allowing them to counter-attack.

Investors certainly can't relax in the first half of 2010. But it's the second half of the year that I'm really worried about.

Overall, our business performance in the first half of this year is not too bad.

A group of thinkers in Germany in the first half of the nineteenth century whose views strongly influenced Karl Marx.

In the first half our tactics were not perfect, we had some difficulties in midfield, but after that we took control of the match.

With players of two teams already dismissed in the first half, the second went on in totally chaos.

By cutting unprofitable stores, it has raised margins; in the first half, profits rose by 66 per cent on a 22 per cent increase in revenue.

The company said last month it sold 1. 77 million vehicles in the first half, up more than 44% from the year-earlier period.

Sales of the electronic components it manufactures for firms around the world were up 70% year-on-year in the first half of 2009.

Director Wang Xiaojie in the first half of the June years led the SARFT relevant working group in Ningxia site survey.

Meanwhile, Ben Bernanke admitted for the first time that America could slip into recession in the first half of the year.

Almost 30% of Ireland's job growth in the first half of this decade came from the building trade.

China took some advantage at a sell-out Shenzhen Sports Center in the first half with more possession and threats.

In the first half of this year, according to Nielsen Co. , advertising spending in China grew 17% from a year earlier.

Aggregate new bank lending surged 201% in the first half of 2009 from the same period a year earlier, to nearly $1. 1 trillion.

"We showed [Spurs] a bit too much respect in the first half and we'll learn from that, " Gabbidon told the club's official website.

Officials say that in the first half of this year it overturned 15% of death sentences.

Portugal must repay debt of more than 12 billion euros in the first half of 2011, with its first redemption falling in April.

In the first half of this year, an average of 187 people died per day in industrial accidents, China's government reported this month.

US equities are likely to remain weak in the first half of 2008, as investors evaluate the breadth of the US economic slowdown.

"The scoreline was fantastic, but I didn't think we played that well in the first half, " admitted Sir Alex on MUTV.

Our Gross Domestic Product attained robust double-digit growth in the first half of the year.

Upon launch in the first half of 2007, the N-Gage will release with at least 15 first-party titles.

In the first half, you're pausing for so much laughter from your audience.

Cavani's goal was the first Germany has allowed in the first half hour at this World Cup.

Her net popularity rating fell to a 10-month low in September after slightly improving in the first half of the year, according to polls.

Ms Wang expects sales to dip in the first half of next year but then quickly recover, boosted by a double windfall.

Barcelona played, a little bit, a poker game by giving absolutely everything in the first half.

After falling 1. 1% in the first half of 2009, the CPI will stabilize in the second half and possibly rebound, the bank said.

That rose to 31 per cent in the first half for the 900 or so companies that have reported earnings so far, according to Morgan Stanley.

Overall, economists believe 2011 will be another tough year, with growth expected to slow sharply in the first half of the year.

The economists now see stronger expansion in the first half of 2011, with growth picking up speed as the year progresses.

The company's operating cash flows were $2. 9bn in the first half of the year, compared with $900m in the first half of 2009.

Stockmarkets took a further battering in the first half of the week. Some indices fell to their lowest levels for many years.

Record Chinese issuance in the first half also surpassed Japanese companies' own record sales during this period.

Sneers about domestic politics hurting Hungary's presidency of the European Union in the first half of 2011 proved largely groundless.

Chievo slowed down a bit in the second half, they conceded more than in the first half.

Now he's planning his next art show, has two films scheduled for release in the first half of 2011, and is prepping material to direct.

In the first half of last century when the Qing Dynasty was overthrown, many events relating to the Eastern Mausoleum site were taken place.

GE said, at the time, it expected the transaction would be complete in the first half of 2010.

In the first half of 2007, industrial production sped up across the developing regions, notably in East Asia (20%, year over year).

Around 100 health books were sold every month in the first half of the year, but now they just sit on bookshelves, said a bookstore.

In the first half of this year America embarked on 50 prosecutions of alleged foreign bribery and France managed eight.

In the first half of this year the KPI assessment ranked the first 13 business, is evaluated the outstanding team in charge.

Just about any stocks I recommended in the first half of the year looked foolish by October.

Messrs Xu and Zhu show that China's cities became more equal during the 1990s, especially in the first half of the decade.

And I'd be looking for a Greek default in the first half of 2012.

The team built up a safe cushion of two goals in the first half.

The game was not easy, I think we played a good game in the first half but Blackpool was in the game until we scored the penalty.

According to the tradition the foundation of the modern town of Bareilly may be dated some time in the first half of the sixteenth century.

When we had the ball we moved it quite well - especially in the first half.

The picture Mr Isaacson paints, particularly in the first half of this book, is not flattering.

His team's sense of direction was so poor in the first half that they could hardly locate the Chelsea goalmouth.

In the first half nobody was better. They had a good start to the second half but then we dominated the game.

In the first half of the dynasty, the economy developed rapidly, and society was prosperous.

With 3. 3 per cent growth in the first half, the province was the second-worst performer among the mainland's 31 regions.

Maggette scored 10 points off the bench in the first half, helping the Clippers close to within 51-48 at the break.

Zandi expects more price declines and foreclosures in the first half of the year.

Chinatowns almost died once before, in the first half of the 20th century, when various exclusion acts limited immigration.

It's up to us to show it on the pitch, but we didn't show it in the first half.

We could have scored more goals in the first half but we made some errors and in the end, the penalty changed the course of the match.

This scenario requires problems in financial markets to be resolved in the first half of 2009.

Beijingers have been buying new cars at a rate of on average 1, 900 a day in the first half of year.

I2O model is analogue to the Open Systems Interconnection-layer architecture described in the first half of the article.

They were flat in the first half, a shot by Rooney that rattled the bar their best opportunity.

Recently the Quantum fund has underperformed, reportedly losing 6% in the first half of the year.

The Games passed without major incident though many auditoriums were very sparsely attended in the first half of the 11-day event.

When the fuel pressure is low, the fuel injection timing injects fuel in the first half of the compression stroke.

Pre-tax wholesale earnings in the first half may be four times what they were four years ago.

Tudou saw its loss widen in the first half over rising operating costs and has lost market share relative to Youku and Sohu.

Textiles and clothing, however, accounted for more than 13 per cent of exports in the first half of the year.

But in the first half we looked sharp, every time good acceleration, we looked like we could be dangerous.

In the first half year of my study in Singapore, I decide to finish my ACCA part one course.

In the first half of the year, the continued rise of the yuan appeared inevitable.