The crowd, which had been thin for the first half of the race, had now grown considerably.

上半场比赛时观众稀稀拉拉的，现在则大大增多了。

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I had a lot of bad luck during the first half of this season.

我在这一季节的前半季遭了很多霉运。

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The IMF said that the global economy had grown faster than expected in the first half of 2010 and predicted that it would grow by 4.8% over the year as a whole.

国际货币基金组织表示，2010年上半年的全球经济增长速度超出预期并预测全年经济增长将达4.8%。 （原译有点问题，这样是不是更好呢？）

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This year alone, since the first of January, we have had more than 70 incidents, just in the first two-and-a-half months of this year."

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A couple of you have had the first half of this course, most of you haven't.

你们有几个听过这门课的前一半,大部分也没有

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The first half had seen the highly-fancied Lions look complacent as they sought the draw that would have ensured their progress.

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In a game of very few genuine goal-scoring opportunities, the first half had almost expired before there was any real goal-mouth action.

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He shot over the bar after substitute Ameobi, on for Carroll who had suffered a knock in the first half, had won a free-kick on the edge of the box.

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