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  • The hosts came out in the second half determined to find a leveller, but Skelton and Simmonds were unable to trouble Howard's goal.

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  • The Cardinal shot 29 percent in the second half and struggled to find open looks for Ogwumike.

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  • He half-expected to find that distance and resentment were weakening the bonds between the region's residents and their country.

    ECONOMIST: Russians

  • After a more cagey start to the second half, Motherwell were first to find the target and Pernis did well to get a strong hand to a low Lasley effort from the edge of the box.

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  • Senior forward Austin Johnson had a career-high 18 points for the Scarlet Knights (15-16), who were able to cut into Notre Dame's lead several times in the second half only to see Connaughton find a way to start the Irish offense in a hurry.

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  • Boro continued to control the game during the first half but could not find a second to settle their nerves.

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  • For innocent Americans snuggling down to watch Two and a Half Men, it might have been a bit of a shock to find their viewing interrupted by one and a half speeches.

    BBC: Low viciousness and high drama

  • Li didn't adapt well to the demands placed on her as the first person from China to win a major singles title: She said she wasted "half a year" just trying to find her game again.

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  • Judge Friedman had asked authorities to find a half-way house near Norfolk, Virginia, where Trie has been living with his sister.

    CNN: By Terry Frieden/

  • In driving rain at St Andrews, Fulham found their feet as the half went on, only to find Birmingham's defence in good working order.

    BBC: Birmingham 1-0 Fulham

  • After half an hour he decided to find a toilet, and said he was pointed in the direction of the players' tunnel by a steward.

    BBC: England World Cup fan in court over dressing room entry

  • If you know you are going to need to check an e-mail on the way home from the office, find a parking lot half way to your destination, answer the e-mail, and then get back on the road.

    FORBES: How Road Rage Endangers Your Commute -- And How To Prevent It In Yourself

  • About half of that amount is estimated to find its way back to cartels in Mexico.

    FORBES: Large Cash Transactions Banned In Mexico

  • Let that irritation motivate that gym session, that extra half mile, the necessary sacrifices to find that extra, missing percentage and return the Jets to the postseason.

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  • An Arkansas tractor salesman (Robert Duvall) discovers that his real mother was a black woman, and sets off for Chicago to find his black half brother (James Earl Jones).

    NEWYORKER: A Family Thing

  • Scrum-half Eoin Reddan and hooker Raphael Ibanez crossed for first-half tries and Leicester were unable to find a way back against a resolute Wasps outfit who led 13-9 at the break.

    BBC: King acclaims 'best ever' Wasps

  • There it hopes to find at least half a billion barrels of oil, enough to build a platform like ExxonMobil's nearby Hibernia, which can withstand a jostle from a million-ton iceberg.

    FORBES: On The Cover/Top Stories

  • So gold mining firm Gold Corp opened up a set of its geological data to the net and offered a half-million dollar prize fund to anyone who could "find gold".

    BBC: TEDGlobal: Net opens up era of radical openness

  • Hibs finally began to show some attacking intent as the half drew to a close, but their strikers couldn't find a way past the impressive-looking Michael Duberry and Graham Gartland in the Saints defence.

    BBC: Sport - Football - St Johnstone 5-1 Hibernian

  • Between 15% and 16% of the prison population is black but only half that figure find their way on to community probation projects.

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  • Half the lobbyists in Washington would have to find new employment, as would most of the Internal Revenue Service staff and countless tax lawyers.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Working my way around this tumor with a ten-millimetre camera on the end of a foot-and-a-half-long wand was like trying to find my way around a mountain with a penlight.

    NEWYORKER: Personal Best

  • The head of Unep's Balkan DU assessment team, Pekka Haavisto, told the BBC that a year-and-a-half after the conflict they were surprised to find parts of DU weapons lying about in villages and graveyards where they could easily be picked up by children and adults.

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  • "I had to find a cup, I had to find some tea, I wasted, like, half an hour, and got really annoyed, " he recalls.

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  • Finally, Liverpool started to come into the game with 10 minutes to go before half-time with, for the first time, Dirk Kuyt starting to find his range from out on the right flank.

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  • That is a 19% discount from what the building fetched in 2007, but with a tenant occupying half the building departing, Blackstone will have to find a replacement.

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  • But when Newcastle needed to find inspiration in the second half, all that was on offer was an almost passive acceptance of their decline as they failed to exert any serious pressure on Villa - at times seeming barely aware of the fate that awaited them if they lost.

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  • Most companies with half a billion in revenues do find a way to turn a profit.

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  • But Danny Collins and Anthony Stokes failed to find the target with flashing first-half headers and Kenwyne Jones could not turn in a left-wing cross.

    BBC: Man City 1-0 Sunderland

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