first half

• “The whole thing had been glamorous and exciting for the first half hourthe gorgeous people, the racks of expensive clothing, the makeup and hair artists at the ready with their tool belts full of productsbut really, it was just a lot of standing around.”

  Simon & Schuster: Paradise Lost

• “The effort was a good example of how a national security adviser can operate effectively, even in a situation where strong personalities are at loggerheadsas continued to be the case for Iraq policy in the first half of Bushs second term.”

  Simon & Schuster: In the Shadow of the Oval Office

• “Pomerania, the district along the coast to the right and left of the mouth of the Oder, continued to be ruled by its dynasty of Slavonic dukes, nevertheless it was also under German influence and was converted to Christianity in the first half of the twelfth century by St. Otto of Bamberg.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “The Reichenau school of painting is seen at its best even today in the single extant work of the tenth century = = the eight pictures on the upper part of the walls of the little Roman basilican parish church (St. Georgskirche) at Oberzell - and in the paintings on the walls of the church of St. Peter at Niederzell, which belong to the first half of the eleventh century, and were discovered by”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “The first half of this saying, coined by Rabbi Elazar Ben Azaria, who lived in the first century CE, has been the subject of much media attention in recent months.”

  JPost.com - Front Page

• “During the first half of our week at Casa Verde, my friends and I had discovered that the Arrojo brothers had a troubled family history.”

  Simon & Schuster: NANCY DREW

• “Admitting his existence, also five or six historical bishops, predecessors of Faventius in 451, it would seem that the episcopal see dates from the first half of the fourth century.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “Comitolus (d. 1626), and Philalethis (d. 1642), but the great body of the theologians of the end of the sixteenth and of the first half of the seventeenth century were on the side of Medina.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “Frederick in the first half of his reign with the help of his minister Cocceji, was the reorganization of the department of justice, which had been neglected during the reign of his father.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “It was in Franciscan use, after Compline, in the first half of the following century.”

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