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"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.

"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.

Through the first half of this decade, America bought far more than it produced, running up a massive tab with its trading counterparts.

She spent the first half hour talking in hushed tones with her neighbors, trying to determine what it meant when a fencer's helmet lit up.

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.

Playing into the uneven nature of the first half were a number of offensive fouls on both teams, particularly moving screens.

The government did not reveal how much China's energy intensity index during the first half of this year decreased from the 2005 level.

Lazear said he expected housing to hurt GDP at least through the first half of next year.

He was not always a clergyman. During the first half of his life, he was a teacher in the military school at Woolwich .

It's hard enough to sit at home while your team is playing, but to not even be able to see the first half?

During the first half year of my college life, I had not got a clear idea about college.

Now, the question dominating financial markets as the first half ends is how much longer the renewed bout of heightened fear will last.

Do not end a line with the first half of a pair of brackets, quotation marks, or parenthesis.

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.

The ministry said the number of accidents fouling the air and water doubled during the first half of 2010, with an average of 10 each month.

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.

Just as it looked like the first half would end scoreless, the Koreans scored to put the Germans behind for the first time at T&T 2010.

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.

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

"It was frustrating to lose the game to a penalty right at the end of the first half and I thought the decision was harsh, " said Segura.

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 usually has huge cash outflows during the first half since it would be purchasing tobacco from auctions floors.

Take a crack at making annual projections, or at least plugging in the potential numbers for the first half of the year.

The first half. Disjointed is something of an understatement.

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.

The first half part of this film was like a national epic, reappeared the prosperous plantation civilization of more than one hundred years.

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

Abhisit therefore accept the "Bangkok Post" interview, said he hoped the first half of the dissolution of Parliament, a general election.

At least for the first half, the visual surface of the film is enough to carry us.

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.

"This is the start of a wave of job losses that will likely extend through the first half of this year, " he said.

Manufacturers are predicted to be able to meet that demand for the first half of the year.

at home to allow the first half hour of TV children watch, but let the children will see the contents of the writing.

In the next few weeks, the banks will come out with their results for the first half of the year.

Unless the global economy suffers a very deep recession, bond prices are likely to move in a sideways range over the first half of the year.

"You won't see any meaningful recovery through the first half of 2010, you might get a little bit but nothing of any scale, " Bason said.

By the first half of the 19th century, there were more than 100 mills in Rhode Island that employed thousands of men, women, and children.

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.

Indeed, during the first half, although Chelsea were winning quite a few tackles, they were also misplacing passes.

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. '

Business has more than lived up to the first half of that promise.

China's monthly trade balances will continue to be in or near deficit for the rest of the first half, spokesman Yao Jian predicted.

Investors in fine art are probably happy that the first half of 2012 is over: It has been a disappointing period, especially in Asia.

And if the queue depth had been set to the 5000 calculated earlier, it would have been exceeded within the first half an hour.

In business the end of the first half of the year marks a time to sit back and examine how things have been progressing.

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.

During the first half of his tenure, it appeared as though Lumumba would deliver on many of his grand promises.

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

Overall, the number of equities trades worldwide increased 44 per cent between the first half of 2006 and that of 2007.

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

Chinese authorities cut the export quota for the first half of this year by 35 percent from a year earlier.

And yet, during the first half of this year, the economy barely grew.

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

As the bitter fights that have scarred the first half of Barack Obama's presidency show, nothing could be further from the truth.

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

The source did not provide figures for a direct comparison for the first half 2011 figures.

So the inflation scare of the first half of 2008 is over, and with it all fashionable talk about 'a return to 1970s stagflation.

I've spent 10 years making these movies and I just hope that the second part of my life is as incredible as the first half.

But I think Marseille are a good side and sometimes they made it quite difficult, especially at the start of the first half.

I'm just telling myself that the first half of this class, I've been doing well and I comprehended almost every important point thoroughly.

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

We are prepared to let the first half, and that is only half of the loss of pay.

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.

Experienced warmer after the first half of the market, the company of stock to a good return more cash.

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 first half of the 19th century was the transitional phase of the formation of the British modern educational system.

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.

It was a simple enough tactic that contributed to the first-half tedium, but it was key to Chelsea eroding United's bite.

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 largest Russian steam coal producer is eyeing an initial public offering in London during the first half of 2010.

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.

All while dodging wild torpedoes and dealing with the torpedo failures that plagued American submariners for the first half of the war.

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

on the first half. . . "It was a mental test because everything looked to be going against us today. "

US apparel imports from Bangladesh steadily rose over the first half this year, compared with a general decline from other destinations.

The Census Bureau says the United States imported ten million dollars worth of live turkeys during the first half of the year.

He wanted to play and got through the first half but at half-time he was sick again, so there was no option.

Most private forecasters expect U. S. growth to be stronger in the quarters ahead than during the first half of this year.

Much to Mr Nixon's chagrin, the media only quoted the first half of that sentence.

'We can dream about the free-kick going in and testing Chelsea's nerve, ' he said of the first-half moment when his team hit the post.

The first half is very balanced, the team seems to be studying each other out, few goal scoring chances.

A subsequent back injury caused him to miss a number of matches during the first half of the campaign.

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

My start was not very good and I lost a couple of positions, and then traffic hampered my progress during the first half of the race.

Both the Distribution and IT Solutions businesses have contributed to the company's strong performance figures during the first half.

John Terry played the first-half only but unfortunately Wayne Bridge did not last that long.

It was the worst wheat disease of the first half of the 20th century, killing about a fifth of America's harvest in periodic epidemics.

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

Analysis VIII: Paper machine during the first half of the import quantity and value of a certain magnitude of decline.

The first half of class is typically devoted to his lecture, delivered while seated, with only the occasional glance at his notes.

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

From March to September as an invigorating autumn climate, as time passed between the first half of the year.

The first half-year saw one billion domestic trips, up 10 percent from a year ago, and a revenue of RMB500 billion, up 10 percent.

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

Yes, it was amazing. At least I thought the first half was amazing.

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.

I use the first half hour of my commute to read the paper and drink coffee, the next 70 minutes to prepare for meetings and e-mail.

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.

The first half of this mental shift is to stop thinking immature thoughts, which are self- centered and self-seeking.

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

During the first half of the 20th century, men would receive manicures along with a haircut, shave, and shoeshine in a package deal .

The first half of this file will look much like the symfony front controller you created.

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.

Wade ended the first-half scoring with a vicious slam dunk over Kaman, pulling Miami into a 51-all tie.

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.

During the first half of the sixteenth century the city of Rome gradually rose to a position of cultural leadership.

However, the volatile external environment caused interest rates to stay at relatively high levels compared with the first half of the year.

To fight off the boredom during the first half at the Reebok on Saturday, I started comparing Premier League clubs to countries.

They had a good emotional reaction to that goal until the end of the first-half.

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.

The first half of the 18th century, the German Baroque architecture in Europe an exquisite architectural history.

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.

The earliest mention of explosives are to be found in the alchemical writings of the first half of the seventeenth century.

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

There is a problem set approximately once a week for the first half of the course.

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

Terry acknowledges the fans were demanding more goals and the first half was not up to scratch.

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

Provided the first half of the tale is a love story, the second half can be perceived as a narration regarding struggle and striving.

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.

Domestic consumption was strong through the first half of the marketing year largely due to expanding biodiesel production.

Sales in Asia advanced 12 per cent in Asia during the first half of this year, the company said.

Preliminary data from Off-Highway for the first half show the company's market share in large excavators was little changed from 2010.

Business groups from the countries involved called for the deal to be wrapped during the first half of next year.

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

The first half (three bytes) of any MAC address expresses this manufacturer code.

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

'We managed to generate a positive free cash flow of 516 million for the first half of the year, ' Mr. Reithofer said.

"The first half hour we played terrifically well, " he said.

In Western countries people have been using the installment plan since the first half of the twentieth century.

The first half-hour was lost, for Fanny and Lady Bertram were together, and unless she had Fanny to herself she could hope for nothing.

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.

Eclyse has a zebra head. The first half of her body is like a white horse.

"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.

During the first half we had chances to score, but one goal is not enough to decide a game.

The first half of the Eid al-Fitr, the landlord Ibrahimovic ( Malay: old mother, grandmother of the family began to prepare a . ).

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

This all shows that the first half of September will bring a slow start, and you may be fine with that pace.

Birdie: And as for being fifth-rate, I closed the first half for eleven years and you know it!

Sales rose 17. 9% from a year ago, but that's down from 18. 2% annual growth reached during the first half of the year.

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

For the first half of American history, the main job of the vice president was serving as president of the Senate.

Hehehe. . . after reading the first half, I thought you were going to just set the crabs free. . .

The bleak outlook for housing is forecast to continue at least through the first half of 2010.

In a 100, I try to breath every three for the first half of the race, which helps me stay in control during the second half of the race.

The carrying out of the im & export plan is good in our province for the first half of this year.

That plan was abandoned, given the Wall Street meltdown, and the candidates spent the first half of the debate on the economy.

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.

One of the first tunnels. Probably, the first Half-Life video game was created on the base of the one of such objects.

The company posted a loss for the first half of this year.

"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.

Even the first half, as great a mismatch as it was from the start, was not without intrigue.

Savant describes her childhood, the first half of her life in fact, at a kind of ironic distance.

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

But Anglo Irish Bank recently reported figures that showed deposits had fallen over the first half of the year.

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.

The number of heterosexual patients with a non-Dutch nationality even increased compared with the first half of 1996.

The first half part is the realistic narration, writes him to improve political the ideal and the bitter experience.

Rooney gave United the lead near the end of the first half of this away match.

First Ambrosini, and then Inzaghi, begot a series of chances that culminated with Clarence Seedorf 's goal near the end of 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.

The first half of this work is an autobiographical chronology of the author's life.

As the first half of the year wound down, even stronger economies like France were starting to worry investors.

The first half of the film is a moving portrait of this woman whom Imelda Staunton's performance makes memorable.

At the end of the first half I felt we were not really patient enough because we wanted to score the first goal.

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

The materials covered during 15. 647 (the first half of the semester) emphasize the organization and financing of the company.

When the common school system spread during the first half of the century, , most of the public schools were virtually Protestant.

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

Yet Americans were net sellers of domestic real estate during the first half as they sought higher yields overseas.

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 need to look at the trend of the first half of this year to see the real story.

'The first half of the year was clearly better than we had expected, ' said Audi sales chief Peter Schwarzenbauer.

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.

If you have the opportunity to definitely have to go, but the first half is certainly not the last.

During the first half of the movie we saw last week, I found it hard to become interested in the plot.

Mr Bell argued that the great ideological struggles that had defined the first half of the 20th century were exhausted.

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.

As we discussed in the previous section, the first half of a rule definition is an Eclipse extension.

That is half the previous monthly run rate, although lending is usually front-loaded into the first half.

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.

And 52 percent of these purchased made during the first half of pregnancy as excitement and hormones kicked-in.

analysis II: Customs data show that the first half of the domestic import of raw materials still showed relatively large skin growth.

Adding nutrients throughout the first half of the fermentation gives added insurance that the select strain will be vigorous to the end.

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

These two resolutions took up much of my free time for the first half of the year.

For at least the first half of the reform period, few were so confident.

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.